We welcome the educators and friends from far and wide! Readers would have found in the last few months once again we are reaching out to friends and educators from far and wide. There are now more features and more coverage of schools and education from across the country as well from across the seas…
Are we becoming a superficial nation?
A superficial celebrity culture doesn’t make a country great! And imitating the Yankee celebrity culture would be the folly of all! A false celebrity culture that tries to hide the more serious side of individuals and the country. Media plays a more and more central role in the affairs of a country. More so in…
There is no rest on the education front!
Education is a continuous process! America is undergoing peculiar distortions in its national outlook! It is tie Indians build an Indian education brand! Education is no more an ideal and an imaginative field. Yes, you need ideas and philosophies. Every thinker is an educator. This is history. Rousseau started out as an art it rather…
A clash of new civilisations?
A new class of barbarians? The display of American brutality and barabarism? This is an education journal. Not any political or other public affairs journal. So, we have to look at the Indo-American diplomatic rupture over a young Indian Consul-General in New York subjected to public humiliation, an official who enjoys protection under the Vienna…
Our economic future!
Our agriculture future! What professional economists say might not be what the common man sees and says! For a change let us look at some of the broad contours of the Indian economy. To put it in common man’s language: is the Indian economic growth okay? By looking at the global trends, there is still…
What is education?
Education is what it does, right? Education must define an individual’s moral calibre? Indian character and its moral disabilities. Two aspects of education. One, what is the intrinsic meaning or value of education? The second aspect is what is education is actual life? What it does for us? How it helps us to make way…
What are new ideas in education today?
Who thinks afresh in education? In India? In the USA? Each country and culture has its own challenges and opportunities? Readers this time would find on the other page, an edited version of an interview with Mechelle Rhee, a South Korean American lady of high intelligence and grit, who is an education director of schools,…
How to teach history of our times?
How to teach Indian history? How to teach the sciences? From whose points of view? British written Indian history texts no more suit an Independent India, right? So too an India -centric and why even a South East Asia centric world view is what we in India must focus on. It is India, China, Japan…