May 2009
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Education teaches socializing
Education provides knowledge. It is that weapon which can reduce poverty, hunger, wars and any other form of evils. But all this is on a higher note isn’t it? If you ask a child, what it means to go to school, you will surely not hear such big words. The answer can be very simple, and many kids would answer going to school means meeting friends. This simple answer wouldn’t attract any applause...
April 2009
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Alternative education
Education has transcended a lot of borders. It is an age old notion that education meant going to schools and learning mathematics, or science or so on. Non traditional education or alternative education is fast catching up. This form of education concentrates on other subjects like philosophy, religion, sociology. The subjects which were considered as secondary subjects in the main stream...
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Dyslexia in children
Dyslexia is a learning disability. This is what everyone would answer when questioned on what does dyslexia mean. But there is more that one needs to know. This article aims to educate the readers more about dyslexia. Children suffering from dyslexia can tell everything orally but their written and reading skills are very bad. The common indicators of dyslexia are that the student reverses the...
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Discrimination in Education
There has always existed discrimination in educational institutes and in the minds of people. The first one that struck my mind was gender discrimination. There are a lot of people who believe that there is no point in educating a girl child because she eventually will take care of the house. Such baseless arguments have resulted in women being uneducated. There are lots of surveys done to find...
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Trends in elementary education
Did you think education is about geography, history, english, mathematics?! It is more than writing exams to earn the grades. There has been a lot of change to make education more purposeful and competitive. Children are encouraged on alternative thinking and creativity. This helps them to handle crisis situation in a very different manner and effectively. Did you think writing exams alone fetched...
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Handling Peer Pressure
Peer pressure is the pressure faced by the adolescents to act, behave and think in a particular way. If you are a teenager, then you must be facing an enormous amount of pressure to behave like your peers. The scenario is as follows. There will be a group of friends and they are always together. Sometimes one comes up with an idea and convinces others to implement it. But then one person might not...