After many years out of school, this summer vacation brought back memories of lazy afternoons spent gorging on mangoes, playing with grandparents in the backyard of their home, a lot of TV and a book or two. Fast forward to 2016, and summer vacations are action packed, there seems like no one has any time […]Read More

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein Mistakes are an essential part of learning for every living being. Humans and animals make mistakes but animals learn quickly from their mistakes, else they cannot survive. It is said even the gods make mistakes. We, are after all humans. […]Read More

We all use the terms Literacy and Education interchangeably and loosely. However, they aren’t the same. While literacy is an important component for education; it is not a sufficient and does not complete education. Let’s look at the definitions by dictionary Literacy – A person’s knowledge of a particular subject/field. e.g. acquiring computer literacy.   Education – The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally preparing for a mature life   Literacy […]Read More

It is the season of faculty recruitments for schools and all schools are making their efforts to hire the best talent they can afford. There always seems to be a shortage of good faculty for schools. However, most schools are short of teachers and, therefore, over-burden their current staff – who get fatigued. How do […]Read More

There are a couple of different definitions for education all meaning the same though. Lets take the most general of them: “It is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge,developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life”. Although Education in its true […]Read More

One of the challenges for schools and parents is to get children interested in a school at a very young age. Schools have to put in processes that engage children. Pre-primary programs (a.k.a. Kinder-Garten)  is an educational approach traditionally based around playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the […]Read More

Many of us, in this generation have unconsciously concluded that, school is a place where disciplines like Maths, Science, History, Geography, Languages etc are learnt. Scores and Ranks are our metric. If our child scores well, we assume success. And it is relative success. Seldom do we think or analyze what does the school feed […]Read More