It grieves me to see full-page, front-page advertisements in the newspapers, boasting about the rankings of students in the IIT JEE, or NEET, if the particular coaching class course is paid for and taken. What has our education come to ( Read more... )

Most of the group at the start (Ranganath, Sowmya and Walter missing)


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Arranged with Sriram, 27 students from International School of Management Excellence (ISME)

Group:


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Shoba and Narayan took several of us: Ulhas, Sok/Murali/Akshar/Amrit, to Agastya Foundation.


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We are digging our own graves in our educational system. Just think about it. To pass an exam, you need to get 30% marks. Thirty per cent. That means, you need not know 70 per cent of ..not even the subject, but of what is being asked in the examination! Scale that up to ignorance on the subject itself. Ignorance is not only bliss, it is a state ( Read more... )

Shalini, Reshma, Subbu, Srini, Anand, Avinash, Srivatsa, Subhankar, Swaroop, Pranva, Guru, Rattan. Regin joined later.


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I had a Zoom session with some school children yesterday. According to the school's request, I talked about the various things I've done during my lifetime ( Read more... )

Kiran Kannappan and I went to Shivamogga to help conduct a summer camp for 85 rural children, under the aegis of

Vatsalya


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Aradhana Academy is not on the list of "elite" schools of Bangalore. But here's our experience.

I sent this email to Rajane Prasad, Admissions Co-ordinator, and Sister Moly, the Principal of the School.

Dear Ms Rajane:

There is a FB group called

Bangalore Schools (closed group, you may not be able to open the link ( Read more... )

Methods of Teaching ( Read more... )