Education – Love, power and a sound mind

Do you have to die in the same religion that you were born into?

Yesterday I was invited to an award distribution program. Mother Teresa awards. This year the theme was combating Terrorism through Education. Many erudite, well-educated Muslims including the former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, Dr Farooq Abdullah, Syed Ata Husain Lt General, and the mother of a teenager who was killed by terrorists in Dhaka forContinue reading “Do you have to die in the same religion that you were born into?”

More parents take to home-schooling their kids, term school studies as rote-learning

Children have always learned naturally from grandparents, parents and elder siblings by accompanying them to the market, to the jungle, to the river, or to the fields. Helping with daily tasks of sowing, harvesting, hunting, food gathering, wood cutting, thatching, attending cattle and so on… children acquire valuable knowledge about biodiversity, medicinal plants, animal husbandry, agriculture,Continue reading “More parents take to home-schooling their kids, term school studies as rote-learning”

Drinking water or Sewage?

Civic body faces takeover if Ulhas River remains polluted This is really shocking. Does the Municipality and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board [MPCB] have to be told to do this? Drinking water is a basic requirement for everybody. What is stopping them from destroying he life of millions of innocent people? I am glad thatContinue reading “Drinking water or Sewage?”

City NIOS candidate moves HC over no extra answer sheets rule

City NIOS candidate moves HC over no extra answer sheets rule ZoomBookmarkSharePrintListenTranslate MUMBAI: A clause in the rules governing the flexible National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) exams, which says that candidates are not allowed to ask for extra answer sheets, has now been challenged in court. Jeremy Fernand, a Class 10 student,[whose parents areContinue reading “City NIOS candidate moves HC over no extra answer sheets rule”

Homeschoolers in Mumbai

Mumbai Homeschoolers: Brief account of our recent get togethers In India, there are many parents who have chosen to educate their children out of ‘school’. They form a small but growing number of intelligent, creative and bold individuals who are now also getting aware of the need to join together as a National Body, withContinue reading “Homeschoolers in Mumbai”

Home schooling?

What? Homeschooling? Many people ask me….You mean you dont send your kids to school? Yes, I say. They all want to know why…. I say, let me ask you a few questions…. Why do you send your kids to school? To learn, ofcourse, they say! I ask them: How do you expect your kids toContinue reading “Home schooling?”