PROBLEM WITH THE IMAGE IN THE PRIOR POST.

For this interested check out this link

http://img.asercentre.org/docs/ASER%202021/ASER%202020%20wave%201%20-%20v2/aser2020wave1report_feb1.pdf

 FROM THE ASER 2020 REPORT

ASER is the Annual Status of Education Report done in India. Not yet read the report as my breath was taken away by this photograph at the top of the report and I just had to post this message of hope.

Hats off to the conscientious teacher and those students. They have so little and are capable of so much.

Children have to go through so much. Here is to hoping the world values all children and works to bridge digital and other divides and ensure that every child has access to high quality pre-school education. 

 Was reading the Draft New Educational Policy for India that was done by a Committee chaired by Dr. K. Kasturirangan.

In it I came across the following. So simple, so rich in meaning that it needs no explanation. Do hope it is followed by many entrepreneurs.

"‘Learning: The Treasure Within’, which the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century chaired by Jacques Delors, submitted to UNESCO in 1996. The Report argued that education throughout life was based on four pillars: i) Learning to know - acquiring a body of knowledge and learning how to learn, so as to benefit from the opportunities education provides throughout life; ii) Learning to do - acquiring not only an occupational skill but also the competence to deal with many situations and work in teams, and a package of skills that enables one to deal with the various challenges of working life; iii) Learning to live together - developing an understanding of other people and an appreciation of interdependence in a spirit of respect for the values of pluralism, mutual understanding and peace; and iv) Learning to be - developing one’s personality and being able to act with autonomy, judgement and personal responsibility, while ensuring that education does not disregard any aspect of the potential of a person: memory, reasoning, aesthetic sense, physical capacities and communication skills."