The Art of Making Machines: A Science Classroom
Science is basically an exploration of that which is not known, or put more flamboyantly, the unknown, in the material world.
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Culture in One’s Life
As Indians, we honestly believe that culture is in our blood and that this gives us an edge over other nationalities.
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Knowledge and Dialogue in Education
Education and dialogue have gone together from the beginning.
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On Discovery: A response
One of Amir Huda’s central points is that, throughout our education, we have become used to learning from teachers in a step by step, accumulative process, instead of discovering things on our own.
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Reinventing the Wheel?
I feel that learning in general, including in schools, is the incremental acquisition of knowledge or information in time, which by its very nature may thwart the process of discovery, by establishing in the mind a framework or paradigm of how to deal with the unknown.
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Review of “A Series on Children’s Development”, Dr. Joseph Chilton Pearce
This is a set of six videos on child development, each lasting from one to one and a half hours, anchored by Dr.
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Challenges for the Teacher in the Information Technology Era
For me, the central questions raised by the advent of computers in education are:
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Innovations in Education: Vidyodaya – an attempt to walk a different path
‘You are supposed to be teachers and you don’t send your children to school?!’ The local community was aghast.
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A Treasure House of Stories
There is a Sufi story told of how a poor farmer had journeyed to Delhi to beg for some financial help from the great Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia.
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