Disruptive Technologies, Education and Some Social Issues » parenting http://www.kenneyjacob.com Disruptive Technologies, Modern Education, Shrouded Social Issues and Dirty media propaganda Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:52:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Difference Between India and UK http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2009/03/09/the-difference-between-india-and-uk/ http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2009/03/09/the-difference-between-india-and-uk/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:40:17 +0000 Kenney Jacob http://www.kenneyjacob.com/?p=1987 This is UK – 12 Year Old Parent

This is India – 70 Year Old Parents

I am not making any judgments here. There are 12 year old parents in India also. In the North East many teenage pregnancies happen which are not reported by the media.


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He talked about brain readiness. Children are not supposed to walk until they are around 1 yr old. We dont force them to walk before that. We will never say to a 6 month old child “Hey you have been lying there for 6 months, now get up and walk”. We know the child is not ready and forcing him will retard his growth.

The same is true with education also. When we force a child to learn something before he is prepared to learn it, it makes the process very difficult and creates an impression on the child that its very hard. He starts to hate it also. Usually this happens with maths. Students forced to learn to count, learn to recite multiplication tables, and really hurting comments from teachers can really make you hate maths. The same is true for all subjects.

So what happened with me was, I was not ready for any of those “Mahakavis” great sanskrit poems. And my malayalam teachers were not very friendly also. (No offence meant). So there is no surprise why I hated malayalam.

But recently I have taken interest in malayalam literature. Just want to know what I missed. ;) Similar Posts:

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