Highlights

Aim of education – Start from Pre/Play Schooling – Encourage Physical activity, curiosity, and creative learning – Practical orientation and experimentation – Aptitude and skill development – love of learning and problem solving – building social skills, and artistic abilities – personal communication ability and empathy for others – use of the Internet – Role of schools and vocational institutions – Quality of teachers – Incentives, awards and scholarships – Ideas for curriculum.

Quotations for Consideration

• “Children do not come with an operating manual of life. That is why they have parents who come into this earth before them to ready themselves to take on the responsibility to be a guide and an example to the children” – Col. P. L. N Choudary AVSM
• “Don’t limit a child to your learning, for he was born in another time.” – Rabindranath Tagore.
• “Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.” – O.Fred Donaldson.
• “Our youth does not form 100 percent of the population but they definitely form 100 percent of the future of our Society. We cannot prepare the future for our youth but we can certainly prepare our youth for the future”. – Shiv Khera.
• “What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.”– Cicero
• “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” – F.Douglas.
• “We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, by which one can stand on one’s own feet.” – Swami Vivekananda.
• “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” – F.Douglas
• “…Improving the quality of education is a cost free way to raise prosperity… the increase in economic benefits far outstrips the cost of investments.” – Paul J. Za
• “Education should be aimed at introducing life skills, such as cleanliness, hygiene and being mindful of others, sharing and caring and including problem solving, critical thinking, decision making and creative thinking, through group discussions, role play, lab experiments, internships and field trips” – Sonam Wangchuk.
• “Good grades aren’t as good outside school as they are in it” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• “Knowledge is given to you not to dissect the past, but to construct your future” – T. T. Rangarajan.
• “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford.
• “All education is self education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you an education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself ” – Louis L’Amour.
• “The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather (when) engaged in everything-hands on, exploring, in actual relationship with life.” – Vince Goevman
• “If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.” –Linda Darling Hammond.
• “The poorest of the poor do not need degrees or certificates, they just want work” – Sanjit “Bunker” Roy”, Founder of the Barefoot College.

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