Tag: Montessori

The Mess of Enrolling Your Child in a School

Education, Experience, Family

Which school to choose and why – the frustrations and confusions of a parent while enrolling the first child in a school; republishing an old note.  I was seeing a Montessori classroom for the first time. The amazing range of materials my friend Azeez bhai showed and explained to me just won me over. A very unconventional hall with many study materials

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On Alternative Thoughts and Models in Education

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A quick look into the educational thought of Paulo Friere and Ivan Illich among others. By MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. Paulo Friere did not have to read the abridged children’s version of Les Miserables from his school text books. He was brought up in one of the extremely impoverished neighbourhoods in Recife, Brazil, and poverty was his childhood friend. He belonged to

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