DON'T FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS!

DON'T FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS!
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Publisher : Rupa Publication
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9353339448
ISBN-13 : 9789353339449
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Book Synopsis DON'T FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS! by : Sid Sanghvi

Download or read book DON'T FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS! written by Sid Sanghvi and published by Rupa Publication. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an unsparing dissection of the current education system by someone who has managed to wade through it, comparatively unscathed. Unbroken and unshaken by a system that believes largely in the status-quo, writer Sid Sanghvi lays bare the truths about learning and the paradoxes in the 'system' of education. He challenges age-old notions about how information is imparted, and argues that learning without any understanding of how to learn, is the root of the problem. The book takes a dispassionate look at the rights and wrongs perpetuated by the education system, both knowingly and unknowingly. There was a time when teachers kept a record of all the educating they had done: '911,527 blows with a rod, 124,010 blows with a cane, 20,989 taps with a ruler, 136,715 blows with the hand, 10,235 blows to the mouth, 7,905 boxes on the ear, and 1,118,800 blows on the head, ' wrote one teacher in his personal diary. Cut to the present, with the inefficiencies of the current education system exposed by the emergence of Covid-19, there could not be a better time for the incumbents to get a much needed reality check. But fear not, in tandem with attempting to lay bare the flaws of primary and secondary education, this book offers a roadmap for how one may successfully navigate the current system to maximiz


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