Educational imperatives are organically derived out of the state of a society. In turn, the educational imperatives dictate the design of the schools. The following tabular representation links the educational imperatives (which emerge out of the specific conditions of the society) and the key elements of the school designed to secure the educational imperatives.The table […]
Management’s three eras: A brief history – Rita McGrath (July 30, 2014) Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state. Organisations still emphasise exploitation of existing advantages, driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders, with terrible consequences – […]
The state of a society dictates the educational imperatives for its children. For instance, we can easily explore the state of society of the current developed world in the early 19th century when it was rapidly industrializing (around the time schools started to get mass-scaled) and see for ourselves how the educational imperatives naturally emerged […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. There is a good news here. Reading as a skill is fairly independent of the language of reading! In other words, reading is a highly transferable skill across languages; a good […]
Democracy 2.0: Iceland crowdsources new constitution – Roos Jerome (June 11, 2011) Just two or three years after its economy and government collapsed, Iceland is bouncing back with remarkable strength. This week, the small island nation earned praise from foreign investors despite allowing its banks to collapse and refusing to pay back some of its […]
Iit makes better sense to discuss this question with parents.The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit.Let us recapitulate how we learnt our mother-tongue – by listening! Truly, there is only one simple way to learn a language – listening. And why do we see disparity in the use […]
The quantity and quality of vocabulary at the command of a person greatly influences her ability to comprehend and analyse knowledge. In fact, the irony is that in our attempt to explain a ‘more complex’ concept in ‘a simpler language’ we only make it more complicated for the ones poorer in the language. For example, […]
The New Digital Age (Book excerpt from The New Digital Age by Schmidt Eric and Cohen Jared) It’s easy to understand why governments and militaries like robots and other unmanned systems for combat: They never tire, they never feel fear or emotion, they have superhuman capabilities and they always follow orders. As Singer points out, […]
The reading ability in a language is largely dependent on the pre-existing ‘visual training in symbols’ and the level of competence in the vocabulary and grammatical constructs of the language. The visual training in symbols, in turn, could be seen as composed of two distinct abilities of the brain: Orthography – the identification of the […]
Assessment of reading skills is a very complex task and to reliably perform it at a mass level is next to impossible. And assessment of reading with respect to any set of ‘microskills’ is also ruled out. Reading is an intensely cognitive process and it is widely agreed that we can best measure the ‘general […]
