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The news exists to inform, not to educate
I’d like to highlight a letter published in Science on January 2. I have many points of disagreement with it but I’d also like others to read and reflect on it, especially if they’re (you’re) also going to disagree with my reading. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Sagan, COVID-19 pandemic, education, science communication, science education, science journalism
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Reaching for the… sky?
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on December 4, 2012. — The Aakash initiative of the Indian government is an attempt to bolster the academic experience of students in the country by equipping them with purpose-built … Continue reading
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Tagged Aakash tablet, curricular strategy, DataWind, education, Indian government, infrastructure
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A dilemma of the auto-didact
If publishers could never imagine that there are people who could teach themselves particle physics, why conceive cheaper preliminary textbooks and ridiculously expensive advanced textbooks? Learning vector physics for classical mechanics costs Rs. 245 while progressing then to analytical mechanics … Continue reading
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Tagged education, LHC, particle physics, prohibitive costs, self-teaching, textbooks, ubiquity
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Fizzed-out futures
Initiatives are arising to plug holes in the Indian education system, or so they claim. Many are ambitious, some even overreaching, but they also exist in the company of those that are honest. However, the cause for concern is that … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, education, entrepreneurial, ideation, India, initiative, institutions, originality
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