Learning and living Study is usually regarded as serious business, boring but unavoidable, while play is something of our choice, something we enjoy. Unfortunately, in an increasingly consumerist society even the nature of our play and leisure is determined by commercial interests, writes Arvind Gupta.
The Animal School: A Parable When children are coaxed, goaded and forced into learning they turn out to be indifferent scholars who scrape through school and college and become dull office workers, uncreative teachers, mediocre engineers, and unimaginative factory managers.
Handling school phobia Most children overcome their fear of school after a point of time while some children may not. Understanding, sympathy and implementing some firm rules can help school phobic children adapt to their new environment.
Sometimes segregation helps There is much to be said for putting students in a
specific classroom section depending upon their
learning abilities.
Evaluation woes Lapses in the evaluation of answer scripts have made under graduate students of Bangalore University an unhappy lot.
Film actor Sanjay Dutt has been sentenced to six years in jail by the TADA court.
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