The New Curriculum 2005 and the Old of 2000 have created some earthquakes of sorts in the Indian education sector. In India constitutes a class of people who have been molded in the Macualay education model and also given the way Indian middle class had grown in the pre and post-Independent India there is no…
Category: Education
Should we teach patriotism?
Rich schools, or schools, urban schools, rural schools Schools exist in isolation and what binds the Indian schools? What minmum programme for Indian schools? Regional and language chauvinism had destroyed an Indian identity in the youth .We need some loud thinking, identify the regional politicians who divided the Indian mind and injected the new divsions…
Power of the new media!
Do we understand our emerging digital lifestyle? What should be innovative education be like? Bill Gates and Narayanamurthy jointly appeared on the NDTV show hosted by Prannoy Ray in mid-December. As we type these lines Bill Gates is very much in India! So, the Microsoft chairman, along with the Infosys creator along with the NDTV’s…
Teach globalisation in schools/colleges!
New Delhi prescribed education curriculum not enough! Our education must meet our current inspirational goals! We live in a new world. A globalised world. India is enjoying an outsourcing boom and we are created unprecedented wealth for the first time in India’s history! The time has come to ask for some radical change in our…
Science Edn. : Evolution is now day-to-day news!
Exciting things are happening in evolution research Evolution of man is not simply to be explained, in my humble opinion, in biological sense alone. I was glad to read a latest survey of the evolution in the December issue of The Economist magazine (December 24th 2005).The survey titled “The Proper Study of Mankind” covers new…
President Abdul Kalam
The tireless talker and dreamer! There was this news item in several newspapers of Mumbai but not in The Hindu. It was about our President Abdul Kalam participating in a media interaction outside the Rashtrapathi Bhavan at the New Delhi luxury hotel, Taj Palace.The theme was ‘empowering’ India. While different newspapers give different versions, we…
Education theories and ideals
Dr. C. N. R.Rao, Dr. P.M. Bhargava and Prof. Krishna Kumar All three engaged with Government in transforming India as a knowledge society, empowering the youth and bringing back new insights, new strengths to our education system. It is funny but true that no one cares for any education theories nowadays! And mercifully there are…
A headmaster as a role model
Or a life in the wilderness?Yes, education today has become a consumer product and services. Everyone seeks education, the poor as well as the not so poor. Each segment of the society has its own views, its own priorities for seeking education. So, education has no core meaning, it had lost all meanings. For the…