DailyPost 3042 PRESSURE COOKER EDUCATION Pressure cooker education with a mercenary goal for a hefty price is coaching, which has become the norm in this country. What a change in the academic scenario in this country, the schools have lost their relevance. For more than a decade we have heard of “Dummy Schools,” these are […]
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DailyPost 1763 GURU PURNIMA – THE MENTORS OF YESTERYEARS What Guru translates into English remains unknown, if you go by the tenor, spirit and practice of this word down the ages. It cannot be brought down to the simple definition of teacher as it stands in the days of crash commercialization of education. The overall scenario
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DailyPost 1123 EDUCATION – CAN WE ADAPT TO CHANGE? When world class educational content is available for free on the net, we still use content which is not at par and with a pedagogy / delivery which cannot be compared with the Khan Academy, online courses and free validated content available on the net. So
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DailyPost 1117 SELFIED! Nobody could have visualised that a new way of taking photographs would revolutionise the way we look at the ourselves, the world, the way we conduct / participate in social functions, may be the way we dress, the way we intend to make social impact and for lots the world has started
DailyPost 1079 THE PARADOX OF DIGITAL LIVING Though such paradoxes are limitless today, sorting out most of the paradoxes may take a few lifetimes, if it is not made a mandatory part of school and college curriculums and family life. The Guru Shishya system is in shambles and so is the parenting mechanism which was
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DailyPost 1075 THERE IS A TEACHER IN ALL OF US There is a teacher in all of us. Think of situations where there has been a need or the urge to teach. There are out of classroom situations where the same relationship gets established and knowledge and skills are imparted and inculcated. Most important is
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DailyPost 1036 EFFORTLESS PARENTING Paytm Karo can be an apt analogy of the way mass scale parenting is done, it is successful fees / other payments scenario starting from a preschool and going up to the highest levels of academics. In popular thought, money is the prime mover in garnering education. The lessons of the
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DailyPost 999 YET ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT! India has still a long way to go before a relevant lecture, which can provide a roadmap to better existence has to fight with the mindset of yet another engagement. It also has to fight yet another mindset of a weekend, where anything distantly pertaining to relevant knowledge in abhorring,
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DailyPost 992 EUPHEMISTICALLY YOURS! ”Euphemism a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.” Might be this is one of the social indicators of being civilised. The world has moved even beyond this, to the extent that our social interactions
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DailyPost 936 A CASE FOR FRUGAL INDIAN WEDDING! Big Fat Indian Wedding is the most apt way of describing The Indian Wedding. For a humour loving nation what could have been a sarcasm is treated as an ultimate compliment. But for the filthy rich a wedding of this nature, which everyone aspires to conduct, depending
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DailyPost 799 HUMAN RESPONSIVENESS Behind all the technological and other associated developments of the 20th and 21st century, there was one major expectation that human responsiveness would increase considerably. The facilitation provided first by transportation, then by immense improvement in technology followed by information and communication boom was bound to have a direct impact on
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