When No Becomes a Breaking News: The Untold Story of Oversensitive Students

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When No Becomes a Breaking News Event: The Untold Story of Oversensitive Students

Every time teachers sit together and talk about mental health, someone eventually sighs and says it — students today are too sensitive. And not sensitive like heartfelt-poem-writing sensitive. Sensitive like… one small correction and their emotional Wi-Fi disconnects. Before you picture strict teachers with thermocol rulers, let’s be fair: they’re not complaining. They’re confused.How did […]

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Why Technology Alone Can’t Teach India: The Real Path to Meaningful IKS Learning

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Why Technology Alone Can’t Teach India: The Real Path to Meaningful IKS Learning

We love calling technology the magic wand of education.And with 25 crore students, who wouldn’t want a shortcut? But here’s the truth no app store wants to admit:Tech-enabled education is a business plan. Education itself is a human plan.Especially when we talk about Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), which is less of a subject and more

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How India Can Bring IKS to Every Classroom: A District-First Strategy for Real Educational Change

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India’s education map is huge. We’re talking about 25 crore students, 1.01 crore teachers, 15 lakh schools, and 770 districts. With numbers like these, you don’t need binoculars—you need strategy. Yesterday, at the International Conference on Indian Knowledge Systems in School Education, jointly organised by Sri Aurobindo Society, Maharishi University (Fairfield, USA), Lal Bahadur Shastri

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17 Classroom Tasks AI Can’t Fake (No Matter How Hard It Tries)

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17 Classroom Tasks AI Can’t Fake (No Matter How Hard It Tries)

A practical guide for teachers who want real thinking, not robot homework Whenever I walk into a teachers’ CBP, the first ten minutes are always the same. Someone sighs, someone else rolls their eyes, and then the chorus begins:Students are submitting AI-made assignments… We have to evaluate this junk… Their basic reading, writing, and arithmetic

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Why do capable individuals find themselves trapped on the middle rung?

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A reflective look at why teachers and faculty stall mid-career and how unequal ladders shape growth in education.

A Straight Talk for Teachers and Higher-Ed Faculty (With a Few Laughs) If you’ve ever wondered why the most sincere teacher or the sharpest assistant professor isn’t the one getting the corner room or the “Professor” title, you’re asking the right question. Career ladders in education sometimes feel like they were designed during a power

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When Teachers Say, “We Need to Teach Parents More Than Children”

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When Teachers Say, “We Need to Teach Parents More Than Children”

It happened during one of my recent teacher training sessions.We were discussing classroom challenges when a teacher at the back raised her hand and said something that made everyone pause: “Ma’am, sometimes it feels like we need to teach parents more than children.” A ripple of quiet laughter went around the room—but behind that laughter

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The Empty Boat Mindset: How I Learned to Stop Taking Everything Personally

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The Empty Boat

There’s a Taoist story- The Empty Boat, that changed the way I look at criticism, conflict, and even failure. Imagine rowing across a river. Another boat suddenly crashes into yours. You’re startled, but when you see it’s empty, you simply steer away. No anger. No blame. Just adjustment. Now, imagine the same boat hits you,

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Why Teachers Are Irreplaceable in the Age of AI

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Why Teachers Are Irreplaceable in the Age of AI

When Google gave us information, teachers adapted. They started helping students connect dots, turning scattered facts into knowledge. Then came ChatGPT and Gemini, able to mimic that very process — linking, summarising, explaining. So the big question many ask is: what’s left for teachers? The answer: everything that makes learning human. Experience as Wisdom A

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