Unfortunately, we do not really know our children. Sandeep discovered this reality the hard way as he and his wife started to ‘home educate’ their daughter. Expectedly, one of our research interests has been to uncover how much of the current state of entropy prevalent in school education (or education across the board for that […]
This question is very interesting as well as significant. For instance, the growing middle class is a cause of cheer and attraction of the world towards India as a business destination and it is setting a virtuous cycle of economic growth. However, the growing middle class is not an unmitigated bliss; many of our current […]
Education has become fairly expensive in absolute terms and calls for better planning of finances. There is an interesting twist, however, to the whole context, goals, and the process of higher education – the best quality higher education could increasingly be organised outside formal classrooms! And at the prices comparable to 1990s levels and lesser! […]
A very pertinent question in the context of increasing disposable income of parents but reducing ‘quality time’ within families, there is no definite positive correlation between children’s grades and their parents’ investment in them. An interesting article titled “Financial help from parents leads to fall in students’ grades”, by Tamar Lewin, January 16, 2013, in […]
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 are two parts to this question – How do I know that my child knows everything (academic)? How can a child, who is in the know of things, fail to […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. Hope you are a brave heart and really love your child to read the following and yet get a feeling of gratitude – the poor attention span of your child is […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. All kinds of ‘truisms’ abound on ‘how to appreciate’ your child (or not to). Shying away from such views and suggestions, we want to focus on ‘what to appreciate’ for. We […]
Let us start with a confession. We know very little about how we learn! And least of all, about the formative years 0-3 and 3-5. We split the 0-5 years developmental phase into two because, according to the more accepted theory (our knowledge about brains is still all fluid), a child’s brain rapidly grows in […]
The answer is a 100% YES! Education is one of the rare ‘no switch-off business’ and school education is much more so. Children are formally expected to continue the ‘business of learning’, initiated or choreographed at school, outside of school too. Homework is the critical connect between schools and the outside world; in the form […]
We all know about the legendary transcontinental Silk Route that connected nations into dependent relationships. Similarly, the goods available at market places of major urban centres in Greece included wheat and slaves from Egypt, grains from the Black Sea (especially via Byzantium), salt fish from the Black Sea, wood (especially for shipbuilding) from Macedonia. Industrialisation […]
