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Isnt it an irony that we encourage the system Which trains students to write exam rather than to uderstand and pave a path towards solving the problems of society? What is more irony is that the demand for such system is high and schools which offer coaching to pass exam. Ghandis philosophy of education says that it should bring a holistic development. Rosseau in his "Emile" opined that the development and education is by the senses and describes it to in three stages. These senses are not be restricted to childs development but also for the societal development. One would not achive sustainable skill by acquiring knowledge but by building wisdom. This wisdom is cultivated in universities which try to question and implicate the known knowledge into the real time societal problems and develop action research with inter disciplinary approach. Never to foregt that the base of the latter mentioned change lest it comes with the change in the attitude. It is of course everyth...

Is India Ready for Investment Culture? Today, it has become a new trend to invest in portfolio or share markets. Because, private companies are on the run and the environment of entrepreneurship is high. The days of savings in bank for fixed interest, the days of living from your fixed and active income are slowly fading away. Even ads which always catch our interest showcasing commodities have shifted their course and started dressing in investment brokers’ costumes. All this shows the growth of capitalism, note that I say this in a positive sense.  Books such as Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” Ashwin Shangi and Sunil Dalal’s “13 steps to Bloody Good Wealth,” encourage readers to diversify their income into active and passive. This is the term used by Kiosaki referring to income earned from service and income earned from stocks. But, Is India ready to get into such markets? Warren Buffet says “One should be greedy when others are fearful and when others are greedy,...

Appeal not to Strain your wards, please Rather provide them a required support so that they unveil their own potential. What do you mean by gaining independence and equal opportunity? Does liberty, equality make any sense for Indian youth? Did Indians really get them after independence? Does an individual has freedom to vote with his/her own rational choice? Can he/she decide what kind of life they would live? Has the equal opportunity made people to up their own ideas into the market and make their own world or brand? May be, these questions have been answered by western countries where the idea of individualism has taken its present shape with its rooted anchored centuries back. But, in India freedom for an individual seems to be that, a primordial loyalty seeking power seats are available to everyone and they can compete to obtain the same authority. To put into a context, a boy/girl will be considered successful if and only if he/she gets into top institutions or worst...

Education should be without Stress A positive stress may be allowed Schools have been reopened! Students who are comfortable with the old schools would remain and others would have changed their schools. It appears to be a simple, accepted norm of every academic year, but it has an unaddressed fissure somewhere in the limbo. Unsatisfied with the schools quality and outcome, parents move their wards from one to one. Sadly, most of them search for institutes which provide over burdening training for competitive exams. It has become absurd logic from some senseless educational institutions which provide entrance exam coaching right from upper primary asking for stressful memorization of concepts rather than understanding the beauty of the existing knowledge. To our disadvantage, they claim to be the top notch institutions.   What stings us here is the amount of stress a student would undergo. This is an outright de linking of education which actually is to be underst...