Category: Education

Why we need idealist schools/experimental schools? Just now I was going through an old review article, written by A.J.Ayer, the reputed Oxford philosopher in an old issue of the Encounter, and then edited by the poet Stephen Spender. I was an old-time admirer of Spender in those times and also an ardent reader of the…

For the Americans and the rest of the world Education’s one more duty! To impart optimism to a people! Just now, we read through a longish book review in one of the international journals. It is about the latest two new books on American history. The 20th century America and to be exact the first…

What Kapil Sibal can and can’t do? Commercialisation and politicisation of higher education has taken alarming   avatars! We know Kapil Sibal somewhat. We have met him once in his earlier avatar as science and technology minister. He is of course too smart a man, a clever lawyer with a reputation for making a lawyer’s case…

Right for free and compulsory access to minimum food! How the American experiences can help us? America, the drop-out economy! Where 3 out of 10 American students drop out of high schools as recently as 2006 Less than a third of students finish college! These and many other such startling statistics has been published in…

Thanks to technological revolutions and tools Every country has its own education traditions and cultures Dominant cultures dominate! Education in the New Year? What Indian education is like? Have we made progress in the education front? Yes, India has made a lot of progress in education. The New Year must give us some new ideas…

Just now, I have come back from a visit to Cochin in Kerala where I visited the famous Jewish Synagogue. Cochin Synagogue? Heard of it? It is a heart warming and even at times when you read the pictures on the walls displayed for visitors, heart-rending experience. I have been there more than once, once…

This middle class obsession must be moderated! Education is all about finding out about own personality and developing the same! Let the government introduce a one year of national social service! A gap year before students enter college would make a great deal of change in the Indian education. Indian education has done much good…

On the lines of the American Peace Corps! This magazine in its original avatar was founded by an American Peace Corps volunteer! It was meant to be a newsletter of a rural school founded by me way back in the year 1962 and it evolved over the years in its present form. Just now I…