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??
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BONSAI PLANTS...what different are students.
recently i went through an article about bonsai plants or maybe ppl call them bonsai trees. BONSAI plants are real trees scaled down to a ratio of abt 50:1,though that varies frm bonsai to bonsai.BOnsai plants are actually trees which are grown in such conditions that they haveto grow small in size and they are left with no other option.Well now just go to a corporate coll and take a close look WOW!!! u'll find a lot of bonsais out there.ONlY that they are not trees but human beings aged betwwen 16 to 20.They are brought up under the same conditions as a bonsai.....they are NOT GIVEN THE FREEDOM TO GROW and they end up being small for the rest of their lives(unless he joins butterfly fields in the later stages of his life.).They have the potential to grow unlimitedly only if given a chance to!!!!
PS:i am not a hater of bonsai plants.i actually suggest every 1 to get himself a bonsai plant or 2....they are gr8 dcoratives for homes.But only see to it that u dont make ur kids bonsais.
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