Articles with tag: School
Neoliberalism and Madrassas: An Unholy Connection
Ahmar Mahboob Oct 26, 2007 interacts: 71How these schools (madrassas) are perhaps an indirect consequence of structural adjustment policies that are dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.
Ragging: A Sickness in our Educational System and Society
Rohit Chopra Oct 8, 2007 interacts: 2Several incidents of ragging have been reported at Indian colleges, some involving acts of brutal violence perpetrated on helpless first year students by groups of senior students.
Bad Vibes
ahmad hayat Jun 21, 2007 interacts: 12One should, at all costs, try not to enrage an intelligent man with authority and if one has to, it should be by the expression of one’s stupidity and not by the display of one’s intelligence
Teaching Science Badly – and Well
Pervez Hoodbhoy Mar 1, 2007 interacts: 244Dogmatism kills science. Students should therefore experience science as a process for extending understanding, not as unalterable truth. Never should the teacher say X or Y is true just because that’s what the textbook says.
Dilemmas of Creative Children
Khalid Sohail Oct 18, 2006 interacts: 57Creative children prefer to follow the trails of their hearts rather than the highway of tradition. If their efforts are supported then their trails become the highways of the next generation
I Miss You Chili Chips!
Yasir Ahmed Nov 10, 2005 interacts: 7Her Urdu was worse than Benazir’s yet that didn’t stop me from dreaming about her – in English.
The Wicked Witch Of Western Literature
Ali Rizvi Oct 24, 2005 interacts: 56True for any of us who has had crazy teachers going against our creative endeavors... this story is an exercise in narrarational exorcism.
Corporal Punishment
Kinza Farhan Mar 22, 2005 interacts: 25The moment a child is admitted to school, he or she starts serving a sentence of corporal punishment and verbal abuse. No doubt, every child today is somehow affected by violence and abuse at home, on the streets, in the media
Madrassahs and Schools
Xoheb Sheikh Nov 14, 2004 interacts: 9The void, at present, is getting wider.
Mathematics for All University Students
Q Isa Daudpota Sep 16, 2004 interacts: 11The role of mathematics in science, and society generally, is misunderstood by common folk. Such lack of understanding is also prevalent in educational policy makers
Stone Walls and Metal Gates
storyteller May 3, 2004 interacts: 20Some nights she dreamt of flying through the darkness, over lands and seas until she stood in the balcony of her home. She would hear muted sounds of her family from behind the glass doors and heavy curtains
Flashbacks from School
Nazar Khan Dec 17, 2003 interacts: 54Those were also the days when we grew by an inch a month and the body chemistry was changing rapidly. Our voices changed and hair began to grow at odd places. Unfamiliar powerful forces, of which we knew little about, were building up inside us ...
Sheedah Badma’ash
Mohammad Gill Jul 20, 2003 interacts: 8Abdul Rasheed Butt and I were class fellows at high school in the senior years. Our School was an Islamia School but was more popularly called the “Khudd School” – a hole of a school
