Lateral Thinking
Throughout our education, we are accustomed to think in linear or vertical manner.If a => b, and b => c, then a =>c.2 + 3 has to be 5. It can’t be 6. It can’t be 4.If you increase the temperature of water to 100 degrees centigrade, it boils.There can’t be any ambiguity in these.Vertical ...
Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind
It is only once in a while that one comes across a book that challenges every things that one has taken for granted for long and makes them rethink their entire belief system. This outstanding book by Yuval Noah Harari is one of them.History, as we come across, is predominantly a chronicle of happenings and ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The science we study in schools can be compared to the tasteless sugary ice cream shoved carelessly in a wet conical-biscuit by the village ice-cream vendor who comes every Tuesday on his bicycle. No wonder, the study becomes repetitive and fails to ignite the passion in us to go further in time. Few of us ...
After School, What Next?
Our school curriculum is designed to develop three major aspects of a child – intellectual abilities, artistic potential and physical fitness.For physical development, students undergo different kinds of physical trainings, learn to do exercises regularly, indulge in sports, do yoga, etc.For artistic development they have art classes, music classes and some of them also get ...
The Feynman Technique for Learning Anything
Many times, while studying, we come across a new topic or a concept that is hard for us to comprehend in the first go. The more time we spend on it and the deeper we go, we get further lost, as we struggle at the fundamental level.Comes to rescue a technique, that is much appreciated ...
The Importance of Education
The value of education defined succinctly, yet effectively by Barack Obama, the former president of United States.• Through education you can also better yourselves in other ways you learn how to learn how to think critically and find solutions to unexpected challenges.• Education also teaches you the value of discipline, that the greatest rewards come ...
Why are Social Science Subjects Perceived to be Boring?
The other day we asked the students which Social Science subject they hated the most.History was the resounding winner, closely followed by Political Science.These feelings are not unique to the students we interacted with but shared by most students worldwide.“I remember History was my dreaded subject in school as well. History syllabus comprised mostly details ...
Connecting the Dots…
In our school days, the subjects we were taught, were disconnected with each other. Mathematics and Science were the focus subjects. But until very late, Science was very theoretical. Mathematics was interesting, because it provided instant gratification of arriving at a precise answer but was confusing nevertheless as we were unsure of what were the ...
What is Critical Thinking?
We all know this story from Panchatantra.Four scholars while travelling through a forest came across a heap of bones and realized that the bones belonged to a lion. Three of the scholars decided to bring the dead lion to life, despite the warnings from the fourth one, who they considered as non-scholarly and a coward.The ...
About “Lyceum”
The Lyceum was a temple in ancient Greece, dedicated to the Greek god Apollo (Lyceus), the god of knowledge and arts.It was the place where Aristotle, established his school of philosophy and taught many subjects including physics, biology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, psychology, linguistics, economics, and politics.Aristotle’s Lyceum was a unique school, ...
