Exploring Parenthood
If you do an Internet search for parenting, you are flooded with advice from thousands of authoritative sources. Parenting appears...
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- May 28
The Value Of Unstructured Learning
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of...
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- May 21
How Does One Go About Homeschooling?
"Education is not a physical thing that can be delivered through the post or through a teacher...There is a mutuality to the genuine...
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- May 14
Highlights From Asli Shiksha's Workshop
We are excited to share with you some highlights from the recent workshop that was held on May 14th. The workshop focused on education...
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- May 7
Workshop on Self-Learning Fundamentals
The two books on ‘Learning to Learn’ lay out the theory and practice of how children can learn on their own. In the proposed workshop on...
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- Apr 30
The Important Distinction Between Meaning And Word
When we are talking to someone, we use words to try to convey our meaning. There is a distinction between word and meaning but because we...
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- Apr 23
Microschools: The future of education?
I wrote a blog post titled ‘The educational institution of the future: A fantasy’ in January 2009. Some days ago I discovered that the...
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- Apr 16
On Education
The following are three excerpts from chapter 1 of ‘On Education’ by J Krishnamurti. Excerpt 1: Education is not only learning from...
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- Apr 9
The Failed Education System
More than 60% children fail the Indian education system. Can we say that the system as a whole has failed? Here’s another way to look at...
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- Apr 2
Home-schooling starter notes
Unwind and unlearn: It is good for your new homeschooling family to 'unlearn' all you have ever 'learned' about 'learning'. (This may...
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- Mar 26
Implementing Self Learning
Can self learning or Asli Shiksha be implemented in a classroom? I remember the founder of a school in Delhi telling me this story. The...
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- Mar 19
Doesn’t school make us who we are?
Academics may have been boring, but doesn’t school make us who we are? From children who need to be taken care of, we become independent...
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