Relative Self-confidence vs Absolute Self-confidence

Current education, with its constant focus on comparison and competition, inevitably leads children towards a state of unstable self-confide

What is Worth Teaching?

No solution is likely to be found for the problem of 'curriculum load' until it is diagnosed correctly.

An Exploration of School Leadership in Alternative Education

In the thirty schools I visited looking for the wise ones, I found some I could really look up to. They were all women, all around sixty...

Learning without limits: empowering students to become self learners

“Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is...

Online Workshop: Indian Perspectives On Modern Education

Modern education is stressful for everyone connected with it – students, teachers and parents. With: - Excessive curriculum - Years of...

The Three Types of Learners

As parents, educators, and caregivers, we often wonder why some children thrive in certain learning environments while others struggle to...

Stepping Out of Educational Stress

In our fast-paced and demanding world, the pressure to conform to gati-centric standards in education has become overwhelming for...

Navigating the Complexities of Education

(Note: The following is a long extract from E.F. Schumacher’s ‘A Guide for the Perplexed’ relevant to this blog’s discussion on...

Rediscovering Meaningful Learning

Traditional mainstream education often overlooks the importance of real-life learning and the cultivation of practical skills. As a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On Education

The following are three excerpts from chapter 1 of ‘On Education’ by J Krishnamurti. Excerpt 1: Education is not only learning from...

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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