By sitting for hours and trying to listen?
Or, by moving intensely for a few moments and then writing about our experience?
What makes us learn better?
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Found something
Dear Parent,
I really wasn’t expecting to find something like this. But then I did.
Check this: https://ruj-bsdu.in/index.html
It is Bharatiya Skill Development University. These sanctuaries weren’t there earlier when I was younger and willing to explore.
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Vlogging
Early morning I tried arranging my camera and equipment for vlogging.
I was happy to notice that I have the stuff using which I can vlog. And I really don’t need to spend on extra stuff. Need nothing urgently at least.
And doing a few trials made me realize that I talk slow. And linking thoughts quickly is not that smooth for me. And I would have to practise and build a habit of looking into the cyclopic lens and talking for longer durations.
Good start though.
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Sources of Words
That title shouldn’t be confused with some popular meanings.
For those who are good at language, histories or etymological accounts of words would count as sources of words. In this sense, sources of words feel like origins of words.
For those who are looking to improve their language skills, especially in the context of a non-native language, they wouldn’t even be aware of words. They need to come across words. Consciously knowing the sources of words, so that they could come across words, would help. Sources of words for such folks would just be where the words are available in abundance, where words can drown them, where they have to wade through words and words, plenty of them.
Sources of words are not origins.
Sources of words are huge collections of words. One would point to the dictionary. Sure. And there are non-textbooks. Sources of words are containers of words. Any word can pop-open a container of words.
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Source of Words
For youngsters in India, yearning to get better at English language, what are the sources of words?
Classrooms with funny teachers
Parents good at Indianized English
Netflix?
Youtube?
Friends?
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Creativity Questions on Quora
Somehow Quora is showing me plenty of questions related to ‘developing creativity’.
Some question-submitters ask for techniques to develop creativity.
What that means is they’ll first get a hang of the techniques and then be able to do creative things.
If that’s the way it is, it is strange.
Creativity is entwined with moving the hands, the body, the legs, the thoughts.
Instead of asking, just decide to make something on your own. And then do everything to give shape to whatever you’ve decided.
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Modular Education
Categories are containers. It seems that talk is possible only in categories.
Broad categories = Big containers
Broad categories may be equated with generalizations.
When we are in trouble though, specifics may help us more than generalizations.
Specific = Small Categories = Small containers
Children ought to be placed in small containers of learning more often than in big containers.
Just as a software is built up of modules, youngsters may be built through modular education.
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National Instructional Media Institute
Dear Parent,
I am opening the newspaper every morning with a sense of anticipation.
Anticipation of discovering an interesting entity hiding behind a boring ad.
I was rewarded for my curiosity twice this morning. Wrote about the 1st discovery earlier in the morning. This is the second one:
I visited the website and was so surprised to find out all the published material that may help youngsters to learn some skills that matter and that one can really call ‘creative’. I am going to order some myself.
And it’s got a nice short-form: NIMI. No?
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Institute For Autoparts & Hand Tools Technology
Dear Parent,
This is the first time that I’ve come across this entity.
Email id given is iatldh@iapht.org. Arouses my curiosity.
Is the website http://www.iapht.org? Let me check.
Just checked. Yeah! That’s the website.
Picked a part from the website:
Objectives
To provide latest testing, R&D and training facility to industry. To upgrade quality levels of industry to meet international competition. To Facilitate reverse engineering applications.Huh! I wonder how many youngsters know this.
I know I know you want your kid to get into IT and build an app and receive 100-crore funding. This is reality.
This institute is just a dream.
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And the Oscar goes to…
Searching for good books to read is an old pastime for me.
You nut, Oscar is not for books!
Hey Naatu Naatu, when ordering online wasn’t an option, I used to visit Crosswords at Mithakali Crossroads quite often.
The Bestsellers section attracted attention. Books carrying the words New York Times’ Bestseller attracted attention and lured me into buying. Booker Prize Winner, those words also lured me into buying some. Later, even ‘nominated for’ lured me into buying.
Aww, even as I write this I open the wikipedia page for Literary Award to check my GK of awards awarded across the world.
The horror lay in discovering that in following lists and awards I made weird choices.
Much much later, I could frame and tell myself that buying is experimentation, and what we buy are experiments.
Once treated this way, if a buy turns out to be a disappointment, I am able to coax myself rather easily into analyzing how I came to make such a buy.
One thing leads to another, now I ignore awards altogether. In fact, once a thing gets awarded, I tend to look the other way.
Award means avoid.
You nut, you are jealous. You are undermining Naatu Naatu’s success at the Oscars?! God will not forgive you! You anti-n…
Congratulations Mr/Ms Songmaker! Congratulations Ms/Mr Listener! Thank you Ms/Mr Reader!
Did I maintain gender equality?! You bet I did. One gender was awarded more equality than another. You see that?
My smirky Dad tells me last night, “The song got an Oscar and you say you are not impressed!”
I must get an Oscar for not getting impressed. Please introduce that category. The category of not impressed.
Please introduce an award for Tiktok dances too; I am trying to get into that. Please. You want suggestions for categories?
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Can parents make kids readers?
How do kids become readers?
What does it really depend on?
We clearly see examples where parents are readers and kids also become readers.
We see examples where parents are not readers but kids become readers.
Plenty of examples where parents are not readers and kids are also not readers.
*When I speak of ‘readers’, I exclude ‘textbook lickers’.
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Textbook-based Minds
Dear Parent,
On top of the silly textbook-based education till 10th, got created a scoring system.
On that scoring system of 10th got created a silly tri-partite silly stream-based textbook-based system of higher education.
College, the less said the better. Another set of textbook-based education for 3 or 4 years.
Post-graduate, more textbook-based stuff, barring I guess medical education.
Tell me one thing, in what sort of place would a child tend to learn chemistry better? What should be the combination of textbook and non-textbook education for a child to develop better interest than she already has?
Do you really believe that a youngster studying for at least 21-22 years of life can do only this much by the time she graduates? Is that the only ability and talent that a typical youngster can display to get a job? Really?
What convinces you so much of your beliefs? And why wouldn’t you ask yourself such questions anyway?
Mind you, I haven’t even factored in the textbook-based tuition classes that youngsters are made to sit through and all the textbook-based ed-tech that they’re surrounded with.
No, don’t tell me that youngsters are dancing and becoming popular on social media. It’s some talent I understand; I really am not talking about dancing.
Books I have loved reading. What kind of books do you read?
Looking to gift her something special?
Are you an interior-designer in Ahmedabad? Or an architect?
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Self-learning Beasts
Dear Parent,
Kids have to be made self-learning beasts. It doesn’t mean that they don’t have to go to schools and colleges and earn their qualifications or degrees.
Till a certain age in childhood, actually they already are self-learning beasts. But then some things happen and some things don’t happen, and they stop being those beasts.
If an effort is made to make them self-learning beasts, they may regain their beastiality. And perhaps they may not even need tuition classes for most things.
*Those college-going kids who sprang up in exhibiting and asserting their ‘scientific mindset’, and have taken the so called c-o-v-i-d vaccines are not necessarily the self-learning beasts I am talking about.
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Turning Radius
Here’s an example of how our education is unable to educate us.
My office complex has plenty of tuition classes. Mothers come driving their cars to drop and pick up their kids at different times.
The complex is situated such that drivers of cars often have to make u-turns right outside the complex to catch the right direction for their purposes.
There’s plenty of road space to make smooth comfortable u-turns without backing up and adjusting again and again, but mother-drivers don’t seem to have translated radius taught in geometry to turning radius in car-driving in practical situations.
As a result of this, often these mother-drivers hold up the movement of traffic and on some occasions cause mini traffic jams too.
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Continuation of Torture
The textbooks that bored the parents, that the parents gamed when they were students, the same parents don’t mind their children going through similar stuff. Imagine!
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History of Indian Textbooks
More Indian youngsters are made to read and learn from what we call as Textbooks than those made to read and learn from any other book.
It would be amazing to chart out the history of the development of these textbooks, in English or any other language.
What do you think?
I am interested in the history of these textbooks because of how pathetic they are. That’s right.
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A few questions for parents
Dear Parent,
Say your kid starts performing without the aid of tuition classes and tuition teachers, would you like that?
Or do you want your kids to go to spend time at tuition classes without fail?
Why do you think kids have to spend so much time at school and then at tuition classes?
Suppose, kids don’t spend much time at tuition classes and still perform well and get a hell lot of time to play outdoors most of the days, would you like that?
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Trying the Post-type called Chat
Wow! If missing details is also a skill, I am quite skilled in certain ways.
Never noticed that there is a post-type that WordPress offers that’s called Chat. Intriguing.
As I am typing this, I find really no difference. But I sense it would show a bit differently to the viewer once published. Let’s see.
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Am commenting to see how this post-type works. Is it any different from a regular post?
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