Education Is Not The Preparation For Life Education Is Life – John Dewey, USA

The deepest desire in a parent’s heart is to see that one’s child achieve success in Life. Yet how many of us realize that the way we are going about; is not helping? When you buy a mobile, a washing machine, a mobile you receive the operating instructions with your purchase. But when a child is born in the family, you receive no operating instructions. But who is guiding the parents? We have lost our ancient heritage of knowledge of Vedanta, Upanishad and Gita. The British, took away our ancient heritage of Gurukul shikshanin the 240 years of our slavery with the English. They removed the Yogashastra created by our Rishi Vasisth, Rishi Valmiki, Manu and started their own missionary convent school. They tried to change our religion and took the brilliance of our early child brain development program and education system. Our education used to begin, from the mother’s womb – Abhimanyu concept and after birth from the age of six (6) weeks old babies. Whereas the British brainwashed in their 240 years of domination and told our parents and grandparents, not to send our children till 4, 5 or 6 years of age. So you and I went to school only after the age of 4. And we lost an entire amount of potential during those early years. Post Independence, our country also decided to continue with the same missionary convent school and those who could not afford where guided to take up CBSE and SSC in India. We were the richest country in the world, when the British came and raided India. They did not want us to remain very intelligent, on the contrary they wanted us to serve them as clerks, as coolies and as servants. Read More

‘Slow Learner Kids Could Learn Better’, Say Experts

‘Slow Learner Kids Could Learn Better’,Say Experts Slow Learners Could Be Good Learners, If Only We Choose To Do Something About It. ‘Slow learners are not slow learners by nature. The people around them condition them, by telling them again and again, ‘what they are not’ and thereby make them loose their self-esteem and progressively dislike their own selves and become slow learners.  Even if there were past history of physical damages or injuries, preceding their present conditions, merely by changing the learning environment & ambience, most slow learners could learn much better, may be even better than other children, if only they are given an ambience of love, understanding & trust’. It also means, no parental or teacher’s over pampering. Read More

Handling the teens of today is considered as easy as handling a hot potato with bare hands. Not an easy thing to do, especially if you think of the additional stress that gets added on with technology and all the well-meaning advice that is doled by aunts, relatives and the media at large.

It brings to the fore a vital question- Does it really need to be as tough as its often made out to be or can it be a rewarding and fulfilling experience for both the parties involved? Read More

Our children are taught to use computers at a very early age. This, understandably, is a good step in primary education as the world around us would cease to operate if this device were to be abandoned. Tablets and phones have replaced the TV as the way of pacifying and keeping the children entertained. Recent figures have revealed that one in three toddlers use a gadget before they can even begin to talk! At times, it seems like technology is overtaking us and we as parents can only merely watch helplessly as bystanders.

So this brings to the fore a very pertinent question: Read More