Perspectives of Education

  People can acquire knowledge and routine skills without understanding their basis or when to use them. And, by and large, knowledge and skills that are not understood do students little good!

Class Room Experiment:

Professor Dylan William sets up an experimental school classroom.

Asking questions in the class room, as a formative assessment, is a routine we are following, possibly before my schools days in 1975, this is a approved practice. Still that practice is not changed.

I don't see why the existence of the universe has to make sense from a human perspective. That assumes in a way that it is all about humans. I understand humans trying to make sense of it, but our minds are limited, its amazing through science how much we have been able to explain well enough to develop technology that works in a reliable way.

I hope I'm posting this in the right place. My name is Hubert, I am an Indology student from Poznan, Poland. I've spent the last summer working as an English teacher in primary schools in Hyderabad. Today I'm writing a thesis on Indian education.

 It was one of the most powerful recommendations of the Kothari Commission (1964-66). It received scant attention both at the level of policy and implementation. The result is before us: a majority of the schools are still in the same situation of deprivation and deficiency as they were 30 years ago. There has been expansion and up gradation in quality and efficiency, but only sporadic visibility could be claimed. The dropout rates remain alarming, non-enrolments are substantial and failures at the matriculation level remain pegged at around 50 per cent.