Tuesday, July 31, 2007

"Making Chapathis and integral learning" - Rakesh

Consider this: if making a chapatti had a mathematical formula & the same is "TAUGHT" in an internationally branded school with

1. Data on key ingredients (lets say... with qualitative + quantitative remarks)
2. A step-by-step process on how to make

Now – after "TEACHING" the formula with 1&2, if the problem is given to kids for soving on paper (TO MAKE A CHAPATTI) then the solution (i.e. a chapatti ) would obviously be EXACTLY same for every student.

BUT.......if the same knowledge is "learned" by the kids instead of being "taught" - then it would be totally different.

All we need to do is to enable the kids with the scope, materials & the environment to learn!!
By providing the above, we are certain to get fantastic results.May be some of them will make Pooris, paranthaas too (some freaky solutions could end up with an idli / dosa using the same dough) and that learning shall be far more enriching than what the "formatted / formula oriented" teaching could not do...Do we need to guess which way most of our schools are teaching science, math, physics etc to kids (EAMCET coaching centers are best examples)your view pls........

Learning chapattis is no easy task (like most of the tough subjects)… but when one is able to learn it this way, then the toughest subject too can be turned into a tasty-feast!!TAIL Piece: Recently I observed two young souls (one aged 9 yrs - class 4 & other aged 16 - inter II) who
started learning Sanskrit as Spl language which can add better average to aggregate % .

Ironically, the younger kid had holistic understanding of "how a sentence is constructed" than
the senior kid who is also a topper in class. Is it because of mugging habit of Inter kid OR was it because of age factor (High for language grasping) adding to this??