Learning, age, and a bar
If some readers are wondering why I decided to let the title have ‘a bar’ in it, the reason is simple. I have always believed that getting into sticky situations is an addiction for humans. I mean, we cannot live without bumbling and stumbling into one ever so often. Quite obviously then, finding a way...
Education is for ediots
Let me say at the outset that education has single-handedly pushed humanity into a vicious cycle where we’re going round and round in circles that are stacked on top of each other. By this definition we should be high enough to watch even the Everest look alarmingly up as we merrily trot on our circular...
Generation gaps are meant to be overcome
‘How will you define a VIP in your life?’ asked a friend once. I replied, ‘Well, certainly not the sort who distance themselves by layers of Z-security and create traffic snarls.’ I was silent for a while and my friend continued to look at me for a more elaborate explanation. I then decided to answer...
Do we really want a revolution in education?
Revolution is a confused word. It defines itself as ‘a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people’s ideas about it’ and then turns around to stare at me as it redefines itself as ‘motion in orbit or a circular course or around an axis or center’. One...
Good Mentors Mean Good Results
“My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.” said Emerson, Ralph Waldo, a famous American essayist and one of America’s most influential thinkers and writers. Right from infancy and at any stage in life one would be completely lost without guidance. Guidance from the right people and at...
