Most of the parents of infants or already school going are in search of "What better can be done for my child in terms education?"
Surprisingly this quest to getting good education starts after one has already finished his / her so called age for schooling and so as to say learning. This quest is limited to search for then education of kids and NOT for self in wildest of the dreams.
All these questions started popping in our minds... What's the real purpose of education? Is "getting a a good job" core purpose of education? Does "real education" mean schooling with a high profile school? Or a fashionable university degree that attracts a good job?
We have been listening scriptures say "सा विद्या या विमुक्तये" the education is the one which liberates.
Our quest deepened.....
We decided to find path with our own kid. Experiment was the only way.. There was no clear answer on "WHAT" and "HOW" of the "REAL EDUCATION".
We met various people from academicians to scholars to sanyasis. We visited education institutions, international schools and the traditional Gurukuls. We read articles over the internet, books and joined various online forums. We flipped though to various different syllabus and course contents developed by various institutions. We made it a point to attend seminars and networking programs around the topic of education.
We also came across a lot of parents of the kids. Most of them were totally surrendered to contemporary alternatives. There were very few who were open to experiment. But almost all have hidden doubts about the current system and were looking out for tried and tested alternatives.
After six years of vigorous open minded study, observations, experimentation with our own daughters education, we thought we should share our conclusions to various confusions, in form of this little book. While we are yet experimenting, this can start helping the curious parents learn somethings faster than we could from our experience.
We started sharing our realisations about education through blogs like...
We started sharing our realisations about education through blogs like...
- Teach your Kids to Teach
- How to improve concentration in children?
- A realization about education
- Useful material for parenting
The blogs increase curiosity in the seekers of real education and we started getting more questions...
Hence, Myself and Archana are planning to come up with this book with the name "In Pursuit to Real Education", we have tried to answer each of critical question about real education, been raised to us by various seekers. We have brought in theoretical aspects, statistics wherever available, practical stories supporting or against them and possible way forward....
This shall be an open and free book for all seekers searching similar content like we used to do....
The following is the list of items we are planning to cover.....
- Setting the context - our story
- Paradigm shift - from fashionable to real education
- Current education system in India
- Purpose of child education
- How to find the passion of your child?
- Vedic approach to education
- Garbh Sanskar - education starts in the womb
- Building blocks - what all is a must have in education?
- Gurukul model
- Homeschooling - can we avoid formal schooling?
- Importance of vocational aspects in education
- Techniques of Education - experiential learning, exposure, story telling, inspiring and challenging....
- How relevant is Assessment in Education? What is to be assessed, when and how?
We shall be keen to have your feedback, expectations, ideas via comments, emails to miteshkatira@gmail.com or comments to social media post. This can make the book more interesting and useful.....
Thanks a lot for writing for such a topic..Looking forward ..Keenly..
ReplyDeleteGB, do share your ideas and thoughts in this regard....
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ReplyDeleteParenting , Child Education............
Who should Learn First............. First Parents should Learn and then Should TEACH child................
Its not Teaching in sense .................Its SHARING......................
share your wisdom........... as you practice in own life..............
Child will learn by observing your actions/ reactions/ behavior etc................
Let child Grasp ............what it needs..............
We need to become just guide ( without adding our EGO ) ........
we should act like elder friend ( yes , Elder does not allow to have EGOistic behavior and detectorship ) with child..........
'WE' both lets learn together ( Parent n child ) ............ So as we trace path of our journey.........let us both of us be guide to each other and let both of us grow together.......
child learns his(her) things and we learn our things............ both learning together and sharing experience of learning........... if some body wrong let other point-out or ask for explanations and Explanations shd be open-minded ( without involving EGO and hence hiding facts ).
Its OK to be wrong , Its OK to make mistakes ............... just acceptance is needed if realised , 'I' was wrong.................. Its ALL OK , not to be a Perfect Human being and not knowing many things .......
'We' are learning and we will definitely will be able to understand .............its a journey to understand/digest 'GYAN" let us embark on it............. later Path of child and parents may be same or different ...................does not matter ............. Its ALL OK to have 'n' number of different path.............. let child select its own path .................. Since We both are friends ................sharing of experience will happen and since quest /search for TRUE GYAN is there in both .............definitely ........ 'cream/butter' will be result.............. if Either of is wrong Sharing will clear doubt/wrongs and automatically right path will be selected....................
Wordly GYAN is all Superficial................ WISDOM is important ............. let Wisdom rise .......... as we learn and implement same in ourselves ............ Wisdom comes from own experience , or from experience of others by understanding them............ analysing .........going deeper into itd root level............... understanding .................root fundamental equations of this Life cycle ( happening in this WHOLE universe ) .............
Understanding ............. What at ROOT level we need to achieve as our life cycle progress............ Whats ' ROOT ' Target of Our Life journey ................... are we on RIGHT path ? ................ how to correct path as we progress on road called life............ how to take turns .............'u' turns ( if needed ) on road............... how to drive our ATMIC vehicle on high-way called LIFE-cycle ..................... how to achive ultimate 'GOAL' decided by us.................. if 'Goal' not achieved ........... what to do ? .............. Should Goal be reduced/changed /corrected or should continue on same path ................. how to do मनन चींतन .......... how be introvert ............look inside and check own-self ...... how to use Wisdom/intuitions to get on Right track......................
michchhami dukkadam