Sale Sale Sale Sale

Education is on sale today! Buy one get one free!!

Well, today this is the scenario. If you happen to step into any education shop (they call it centre!), they start telling about their teachers as if they are selling a shirt of Arrow! They talk about the content (booklets copied from other books) as if these are the best sellers in the market. They talk about all …. as if they almost have an tablet or injection by which they would transform the student (read customer) into a genius.

Recently, I was surprised by reading a fact that sale of chyawanprash almost doubles in the days of exams!!! Can anybody imagine that? It goes a long way to establish that the student genre has become a market today. They are being sold things, they are being targeted, they are being driven.

In the times of competitiveness, this I think becomes a necessity to be alive. To excel others we have commercialized everything. A time would come when the students would become aware of these gimmicks. It is high time that we switch to informative selling rather than persuasive selling. We need to highlight the process used by the organization for imparting education, we need to emphasis on the systems deployed to achieve higher levels of understandings, we need to stress upon the support programs carried to ensure the uniformity. We should highlight the quality checks carried out to ensure the delivery.

At LearningHour, we have developed a very strong system of education. We talk about the regular teacher training and teacher meets carried out for the development of teachers. We talk about the weekly informal test a teacher conducts to ensure that a student is on his/her toes. We at LearningHour, have the whole content fragmented into three important parts, viz. prior knowledge, concept building and practice material. LearningHour, I think would be first company in India to come up with “learning activities” to be conducted among the group of students. These group activities would ensure a higher level of interest in academics among the student.

I also foresee that we would be able to give objective/subjective revision test at the beck and call of students. If the exam of student is approaching, he can very well login at the site and pullout a revision test. Based on the results, he could be offered an extra session. Student and his/her teacher would know which topics are to be addressed. …… a faster way of accessing and remedial actions for the student.

We would have a larger pool of academic knowledge than any other single entity in India, as regards the K-12 education is concerned. This statement by itself makes clear that we are in better position to help the student than anybody else.

The idea is still to earn profit, but not by selling education. We try and sell only the systems that we generate.

Still the teacher remains as noble as was in earlier days. We don’t compare my teacher with your teacher.!!!
Happy selling!

Management

Hi!

Management! What a word!!

Well, I think that larger part of the world of management goes around how you conduct yourself. It is not about any great fundas! One has to lift himself above the common in terms of conduct. The words you choose and the tone you choose matters most. It is very easy to remain in “I give a damn” arena of yours. The ease of this attitude is so warm, and cozy that most of us do not endevour to come out of it. To get respect out of people, we need to respect there individuality, which in turn means we care for them. Caring for somebody is one of the most difficult tasks a human can ever undertake. Hence, once I wrote to Mr. Mohit Bansal (LearningHour’s director) that management is much more difficult than teaching.

It is a game of perceptions. As per Mr. Satyanarayan (Career Launcher’s director) we can’t question somebody’s perception, though we can try to change it by doing something. Well said. What the other person is going to think about your action and words is something we can’t predict precisely but vaguely. Most of times, we generally know that what would be our impact of our actions and words but, we don’t care. We generally are in hurry of something. Time. Time is one dimension that generally people believe we cann’t stop or slow down. I feel we can! If we spend that one more minute when required, if we keep quiet for one more moment to hear others, if we wait for that rush of adrenaline to slow down a bit………. I think, the time would stop there. NO TIME WOULD BE LOST.

To respect other person for being different person……….. or just for being….. is the most difficult thing. To do this, we need to come out of our cocoon of “I give a damn”. It requires energy and generally things which consume energy for occurring are not spontaneous (though it is not a rule in chemistry). In chemistry, the second law of thermodynamics states that, all process in which randomness increases are spontaneous (occur by itself). Conversely, if you have to put things in order, you need to supply energy. If we don’t care about what the other person is going to think or believe, then we are letting the disorder increase and such process is spontaneous. And when we care for other, we need to show some energy.

So folks………. Think before you choose the strokes!!

Communication

Hi!
One of the most difficult things in the world is to transfer knowledge from one mind to another. If by any chance you think that this transfer is eased in case the minds in question are of different age, then you are in for big surprise. Language is the most imperfect thing that the man has ever created. No matter, how much care we take, it goes wrong some what some where.

In the recent past, there has been lot of technological advancements regarding the communication ranging from wired to wireless, from instant to indirect from personal to grouped. All the forms of communications try to convey what is ought to be understood. These all tools of communications are being utilized in the education. As these gadgets and technical acumen are developing, the role of teacher is changing. As the reach of these equipments and technology is increasing, teachers are becoming presenters rather than cognitive process leaders.

Once upon a time, teachers were expected to build the character but today we expect our teacher as the helpers for clearing thresholds. Teachers were once considered as epitome of knowledge; today our teachers are epitome of money minting process….

It is not that, I am unhappy the way it is figuring out, but still, I want to have more of moral education be given as much importance as physics, chemistry, accountancy………….. It would make still make sense to have an illiterate person not knowing what does “first aid” mean, rather than having a highly literate person knowing latest methods of making bombs.

bye

one more start

Hi!

Actually, when i started this blog i had no idea what to write. I only had an urge to write. That was all. Till yesterday, i had no clue what to write. As I almost had an brainwave sort of thing, I realised that I really need to put down what I actually feel about education in India.

Today I have oppurtunity of actually experiencing K-12. My son is in Nursery and I teach 12th std. It is real transverse section that I experience. As I teach my son, Ronit Nagi, how does "Fish" rhymes with "Dish"........... I face more difficulty than teaching "thermodynamics" at Learning Hour's Patel Nagar centre. It really is intriguing to understand how does a 4 year old slowly grows to understand the intrigrites of complex atomic structures and integration or Price elasticity.........

It is to know more about these and to think more about these and put my thoughts......... I restart this blog.

R S Nagi