They say feed a man for a day and feed him once, and teach him fishing, and feed him for a lifetime. Only metaphorically when you think about the new “fish and feeding model“, education comes on the forefront of it all. Education is the forerunner to something really big and far beyond its size.Education [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Teaching to fish..
Posted in On learning on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Secret
Posted in On learning on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love morning walks, just that I’m a a little lazy or worn out at times . Last month I hurt my back , and was virtually confined to bed rest, and as soon as I picked up, I decided it was time to get the muscles rolling. I set out on the street at [...]
Why we need you, and more badly than we ever did ?
Posted in On learning on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is this interesting book, Bottom of the pyramid, at the heart of it; it doesn’t try to touch upon a newly discovered problem. It just states may be a lot better given the statistics that are very well compiled in the work. So what the work reinstates is that the poor and the less privileged [...]
About role models
Posted in On learning on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When you were a kid, your teacher asked you to write a ten line essay on your role model. Unfortunately, you were young then and would be fed with names that you did not know enough about. Names which moved nations like Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther king, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln . But the [...]
Why do you go to School?
Posted in On learning on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To study, get good grades and get a stable well paying job and social quo ? That’s about the old school. In fact an archaic one ! You don’t go to school to learn, you go to school to enable the receptivity to learning. You go to school to enable the realms of imagination and [...]
On Teaching and Peer Pressure..
Posted in On learning, tagged Ekta Grover, peer pressure, Teach for India, Teach India on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today a friend called me to tell me that he had chosen an off beat career in HR and seemed pretty excited about it. But through out the conversation one thing kept lingering in my head, why do we need to justify to our for choosing a career over other? Each child is special, and [...]
