Education

• Quotes  
  • Importance  
    • Socrates – There is only 1 good Knowledge, and only 1 evil – Ignorance 
    • Gandhiji – Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 
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     Ethics  
    • Martin Luther – We have Guided Missiles and Misguided Men  
    • Gandhiji – Education without character is worthless 
    • To educate a man in mind but not in morales is to create a menace in the society  
     Creeativity  Confucius says – “I hear and I forget, I see and remember , I do and I understand  
   

• Intro 
  • Why does time always move forward? Where do rivers continuosly flow to ? What do the leaves sing in the breeze? These struggle of human brains are outlined in the Upanishads.   

• Way forward 
  • NEP should have a 4 pillared approach  
    • Rational and scientific temper 
    • Ethics and value based education  
    • Gender mainstreaming  
    • Interpersonal skill building  

• Creativity  
  • Human pshychology to work the most when under pressure  
  • Green revolution after popn presssure  

Photocopy Debate  

• As a fomer NCERT director pointed out 
• Lost in the debate is students focus on the course packs relavant for exams much more than the actual learning and contextual understanding  

Hole in the Wall project 

• A computer kept in the slum area 
• Nobody to explain 
• Later found out that children self learnt it  
• Inspired Vikas Swarup’s Q&A – Slumdog Millionaire  
• CASE STUDY –