"BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD." - GANDHI

Monday, March 21, 2011

A beautiful quote on education

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan
(She was Helen Keller's teacher)

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Let Kids Rule the School

This truly is amazing! Wish there were more schools like this one!

Do follow the link and read more......

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/opinion/15engel.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

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