Purpose of Education - Capacity Building Session
On 27th Jan 2013 CRY Delhi Volunteers Group invited Ms. Simi Sara Thomas, Teacher at St. Thomas School, Delhi, for an interactive discussion with volunteers on her views on ways to impart education and purpose of education, published in The Viewspaper and Ule . The session was really great as it changed perception of volunteers about purpose of education and made them rethink about where the current education system is leading to. Some key take away points from the session were: 1. Purpose of education should be three-fold: (a) To provide helping hands to students. (b) To make students unleash their imagination. (c) To make students learn through mistakes. 2. A famous quotation of Albert Einstein goes as "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Since rote learning has become vital component of current education system, imagination is facing huge ignorance. Overall, education is standardizing children and making them lose ...