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Education, a word that has been undervalued is suddenly gaining all the spotlight due to the National Education Policy 2020. As we all would have heard, the NEP 2020 has proposed various changes that claim to change the face of the education system in India. Key points that are associated with the National Education Policy are: - Educational reforms have been proposed almost after three decades. - A Holistic Approach in Learning - Delimiting the students from a structure of learning -Greater emphasis on the learning of kids aged 3-4 yrs old. - Emphasis on learning to learn, and not "what" to learn. These proposed reforms are extremely important and should be implemented 100%. The above points highlighted by National Education Policy have been considered and have been worked upon a long time before it's air was created. Our organization Chalo Think Kare lays extreme emphasis on the process of thinking, that we usually tend to take for granted. Chalo Think Kare adopts a met...

Monkey and the Crocodile Session  The monkey and the crocodile story was taken up as a stimulus with one of the classes for Philosophy for Children session.  We proceeded with the steps as always where earlier week's 'Thought for the Week' was discussed, 'Focusing' excercise was conducted and then we proceeded to the story - Monkey and the Crocodile.  The story is an old school fable and has been narrated since time immemorial. We all would also be aware of this story. The story can be summarised in brief as follows: There was a monkey and there was a crocodile, they were really good friends. Monkey knew how to climb a tree but did not know how to swim. Crocodile knew how to crawl and swim but did not how to climb. Once, the crocodile invited the monkey for lunch over the other bank of the river. Monkey wondered how do I travel?  The crocodile offered a lift. In the middle of the river, crocodile gave the monkey a shock. 'Our king needs a monkey's heart, I a...

The above statement does not seem to hold true for this bunch of kids!😊 During a session with 4th A grade students of MindTree Ambala, there was a discussion on a game we played ‘Who am I?’ In this game, we are asked to guess a profession in a person’s mind by asking 10 questions to him/her to which answers can only be in Yes/No.  Till date, I consistently facilitated this session with more than 6 groups. However, this group was the one that had a completely different take on winning. These kids were to guess a profession I had in my mind and surprisingly they guessed it only in 5 questions! Instead of celebrating their win, these kids doubted it. They were wondering whether they were allowed to win by me rather than they actually did it themselves. They waited after the session to clarify whether I changed the profession in my mind to let them win. I asked them what’s the problem if I let them win? To which they responded, ‘It is not something we achieved but something you gave ...

 I CANNOT TEACH ANYBODY ANYTHING, I CAN ONLY MAKE THEM THINK. -Socrates   Socrates rightly said that I cannot teach anyone but I can only make them think. What did Socrates intend to say here? It is quite open to interpretation considering the context, considering the background, considering the perspective that we look at it from. What I interpret from it is a person always learns from their own individual experiences, we all have had experiences when we tried to teach the other or for that matter of fact, when others have tried to teach us something, do we really connect to it until we connect it to any of our personal experiences? Let's take an example here - I am telling you God exists, I am teaching it to you, I am preaching it to you, whatever you call it. But what would be your reasons for believing that it certainly exists, or for that matter does not exist? Whatever would be your reasoning process would depend on what experiences you have of it, how do you define it, ...