Education

07 October 2016 13:32

• Quotes

Import • Socrates - There is only 1

ance good Knowledge, and
only 1 evil - Ignorance
• Gandhiji - Live as if you
were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to
live forever.
•

Ethics • Martin Luther - We have

Guided Missiles and
Misguided Men
• Gandhiji - Education
without character is
worthless
• To educate a man in
mind but not in morales
is to create a menace in
the society

Creeati Confucius says - "I hear and

vity I forget, I see and
remember , I do and I
understand 

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• Intro
○ Why does time always move forward?
Where do rivers continuosly flow to ?
What do the leaves sing in the breeze?
These struggle of human brains are
outlined in the Upanishads.
 • Way forward
○ NEP should have a 4 pillared
approach
• Rational and scientific temper
• Ethics and value based
education
• Gender mainstreaming
• Interpersonal skill building

• Creativity
○ Human pshychology to work the most
when under pressure
○ Green revolution after popn
presssure

Photocopy Debate
• As a fomer NCERT director pointed out
• Lost in the debate is students focus on the
course packs relavant for exams much more
than the actual learning and contextual
understanding

Hole in the Wall project

• A computer kept in the slum area
• Nobody to explain
• Later found out that children self learnt it
• Inspired Vikas Swarup's Q&A - Slumdog
Millionaire
• CASE STUDY -
○ EDUCATION BEYOND CLASSROOMS
○ COMPUTERS EASY TO TEACH - DIGITAL
DIVIDE