`Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.´ —H.G. Wells 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 believesargely in the status-quo, writer Sid Sanghviays bare the truths aboutearning and the paradoxes in the `system´ of education.

He challenges age-old notions about how information is imparted, and argues thatearning without any understanding of how toearn, is the root of the problem. The book takes a dispassionateook 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 toay bare the flaws of primary and secondary education, this book offers a roadmap for how one may successfully navigate the current system to maximize their probability of success This is a simple guide to our education system: its past, its present and a roadmap for its future.


Format Häftad Omfång 256 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2021-04-05 ISBN 9789353339449