Primary Education

Good teaching is one-fourth

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin

Real education must ultimately

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound

It is easier to

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

Education is learning what

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Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. Daniel J. Boorstin

Now that virtually every

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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. Camille Paglia

In Burma, we need

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In Burma, we need to improve education in the country – not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education system is very very bad. But, of course, if you look at primary education, we have to think in terms of early childhood development that’s going back to before the child is born … Read more

South Korea from a

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South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way trying to replicate what Japan had done earlier. They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were … Read more

The higher education has

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The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there’s a long history of educational development. Amartya Sen