By Akanksha Jain: Google ‘learning quotes’ and a plethora of results glorifying the noble act of learning will pop up. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a single negative quote. In fact, if Google is to be believed, not learning is an act of fools and
By Anwesha Ambaly: There is a great challenge before India, to make necessary changes to build a more inclusive and generous society. The call of the day for India is to create a society which enables children from all sectors and classes of the society
By Abhimanyu Kulkarni: India is a country obsessed with marks and degrees. A lot of parents are fine with their kids using unfair means as long as that results in ‘good’ marks. Their own kid scoring 99 doesn't give them as much of satisfaction, as knowing that
By Vishakha Dahiya: With emergence of the latest I.T. “trend” in our country, many brilliant minds have fallen prey to it. I am not saying that employment in I.T. Sector is negative in anyway. Youth is more influenced by what they see on television or
By Joyce Del Rosario: In the past, African culture was such that education served as a rite of passage; not the preparation for adulthood that is now. When the European settlers introduced education into African society, it was done with a goal of making Africa
By Hardik Vaidya: In my fifth grade under resourced government classroom in Mumbai, where I teach full time, when I discuss about subjects like Empathy, Math, Millennium Development Goals, Bollywood Music, Dance, Picasso Drawings, Sports or Wild life with my kids, I am often left surprised at
By Rachita Sharma: April 1 marked the 3rd year of the implementation of RTE Act in our country, as it was passed by the Prime Minister on April 1, 2010. Was it successful in delivering any promising results? According to Mahatma Gandhi, education is not
By Bhagyashree Baruah: What is education? Education is knowledge, is the most frequent answer one would come across. But education is not merely gaining textual knowledge, parrot learning is not something the world values. I want to make my point clear with a small lifetime
Online education is the 'in' thing today. With lectures available on the internet and provisions of online query sessions, many opt for the choice of learning-at-your-own-time. This is specially useful for people studying along with their jobs. What's better than coming home from work, having