How different is incarceration from slavery?
Why do we need academic journals in the first place?: bit.ly/wBGUXn
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M-Theories
I gave a talk at NIAS on M-Theories, which is my approach to the intersection of mind, metaphysics and… [more]
Synthesis explained
Modern technology offers new ways of story telling and of combining images narrative and other media.… [more]
C3 vs D3
Learning should be Continuous, Contextual and Creative. Instead it is Discrete, Disconnected and Dull. I… [more]
Category Archives: Education
C3 vs D3
Learning should be Continuous, Contextual and Creative. Instead it is Discrete, Disconnected and Dull. I don’t see how our educational institutions (see the picture above) can ever hope to bridge this gap. Is it time to tear down the entire superstructure of education and create a new edifice? Certainly in a country like India which doesn’t have a history of a reasonably…
Acquisitions and mergers in the education world
As IT makes further inroads into the world of education, I predict that the education world will start resembling the newspaper and publishing world. Many independent vendors (i.e., schools and colleges) will go out of business, some large institutions will start acquiring other large and small institutions and all of them will be threatened by…
The Sinking Ship
I just read a wonderful piece on the state of education in Tamil Nadu. A retired bureaucrat, Mr. T.K Chandrashekaran, filed an RTI application to find out whether government school teachers send their kids to government schools or private schools. The results are shocking, if predictable: Out of a reported total of 47,030 primary and…
Education
Educational institutions in India run from mediocre to abysmal. The demand for good education is incredibly high. Poor parents are willing to spend a large portion of their income to send their child to private “English” medium school. As I found out this weekend, even the richest people are worried about their children’s admission to…