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  The first place where the child starts learning is at home. There have been enough studies done by many Psychologists that the child starts to recognize voice and emotions   (tonality), while being in the mother’s womb from the Third Trimester. This recognizing and understanding keeps happening very profoundly through the early years. The child’s first purpose is to make the parents happy. This is learnt by the child through trial and error, and over time in the early years, the child also learns how to get what the child wants. The different ways to please the different parents is also understood and learnt. Most of the initial learning is by recognizing the tonality and body language of the parents. The wat the Father treats the Mother. The way Mother behaves when there are guests are at home, the similarities and differentiated behavior subjected to the siblings. The gender biases, the relationships between the different members of the family and the affection and p...

      Control anger before it controls you!   We are all well aware of anger, we’ve all been there, fleeting annoyance or a full- fledged rage…… Well, anger is completely healthyhuman emotion.   Only when it exceeds its limits, as and when it gets out of control it can turn destructive and even fatal: Be it at your workplace, home, professional as well as personal relationships- diminishes the entire quality of life. Do you feel too angry frequently???? If yes, then we need to take care of the intensity of angry feelings, need to find better ways to control anger which could be frightening and damaging. Anger management is a tool to reduce emotional anxiety and emotional feelings that anger causes. We cannot change people or things that enrage us but we can surely learn to control our actions. Anger tantrums especially in ‘millennials’who are impulsive, impatient and cannot accept a ‘no’ is the cause of major concern. We cannot blame them instead ...

    Need of the Hour –“Academic reformation”  Now a days everything goes with “perception”. We create perception of good and bad through different ways. Social media is creating tremendous hype for creating perception of anything. In one sense a thing is good and if hundred people rate the same as bad we can create a badness and it will be perceived worst . In one sense branding is one way or the other same. We also create media hype to establish the perception. In this race, Schools find themselves in a miserable condition. Whereas Coaching Institutes are ten steps ahead in this aspect. Today in India this has been established by so many means by these Coaching Institutes that schools are failure in their part of providing education and knowledge to make any student competent of facing National level of Professional examinations.  They are mushrooming. Even they don’t require to meet the statutory and regulatory norms like schools. One can even start it in a single...

      Online Education- The new Norm Going Forward Even before the advent and unfortunate spread of the Covid-19 virus, online education was slowly spreading roots in India. The sheer scale and speed of the spread has helped to speed up its implementation across the country and we are left with the Question: Is Online Education- The new Norm Going Forward?  Online education is already the norm in several countries across the globe with reputed foreign universities offering full time degrees and certification courses with schools also promoting virtual learning from a nascent stage. It would not be an over exaggeration to state that India as an education system and a society needs to catch up and move forward in order not to lag behind the global trend.  Online education in a country like India has the potential to connect massive number of children from all sections of society, especially when we hear arguments of lack of enough schools and universities come up...

    Goal Setting: Inevitable for Happiness and Success - James Hilary Sequeira Having utmost boredom or unhappiness regarding your learning tasks? Well, it is bound to be that way if you are not all set to achieve what you ought to! Student happiness and success lie in goal setting and a strict adherence to the same throughout the year. It can work wonders only when you follow it from heart and keep excuses at bay. How does that work? Goals for Learning become Goals for Life:   Students who set goals and work sincerely to achieve them come out with flying colours. It gives them a purpose and sets them to work. Practice is a must when it comes to mathematics, science, grammar and other subjects. Usually students feel more attracted to play, TV, mobile phone games etc. which just eats up most of their time and creativity. Setting goals for oneself to achieve makes one serious in one’s work and gives a direction. It sets a purpose. Adults have their job. Home makers have wo...

  A+ Grade...! Only Teaching and Testing…. Up to certain extent I believe Indian K 12 Education is suffering from policy paralysis. I still doubt whether any time ever we ask the end user & main stake holders of this system exactly that - what they want? Where our focus should be? What is the demand and how to fulfill it? What other countries are doing? In my all case studies, I found in education we talk too much of philosophy. Across India, I have visited many good schools and quite ornamented and flowery Vision Statement in the lobby. They too have all good words in their mission statements. They have all good things to speak. But these are not quantifiable & measurable. Today every parent is having hard core consumerist approach. Hence, they also want everything should be quantifiable and measurable. They want outcomes not result. They want Knowledge to be imparted to the students. And above all schools should make the students Skillful by using which th...

 Let us explore ....   While writing this article, I am thinking to whom I should address this? I am also thinking, are these all not known to us or we earnestly want to close our eyes? Certainly, this is not the question about any individual where one can have authority to act as per one’s wish.  But this is the question about entire nation. And this is a concern of real quality human wealth of India! India has given lots of super Human beings to this world and we read the biopic of many of them. What role school played to make them a super human being this is an eternal question. We belong to a race of highly born intelligent people.  This fact doesn’t need any evidence. But still we are not in super power. You leave this. Yes, we are at the top of among those countries where poverty is a major concern. We are again among those countries which are majorly suffering because of illiteracy and social exploitation.  Education has been a problem in our co...