If parents could grow their IQ each time they got worried about their children, most of them would leave behind Einstein!! As soon as children cross Middle School, looking for the right answers/ choices becomes a daily ritual for parents. The process starts with which stream to choose, what career choices to make, whether to take Math or a foreign language, which colleges to apply to, and ultimately study in India or Abroad? And when
Nostalgic is how I feel, as I sit to jot my experiences for this blog. With more than 15 years of experience as an Educationist/ Trainer/ Public speaker/Mentor (you may have known me as any of these), I had taken more than 1000 seminars in Delhi/NCR, yet kept feeling this strong urge to spread my wings further. I would feel like a man with the best dishes on my plate yet something felt missing, always.
Thanks to the new villain on the block, the guy who plays the deadly virus – COVID 19, online education has been trending every minute. Not just educational institutes but also big and small companies are offering online programs to their employees. Despite the soaring popularity of online education, vast groups of people still consciously stay away from such methods. Ever thought why ? 1) Habits : Old consumer habits die hard 2) Lack of
This topic drives me down the memory lane, to the time, when I had opted for Commerce in Class XI and had out rightly rejected Humanities; assuming like many others my age, that Humanities was all about hard core theory, theory and more theory. But soon in Class XI, I sadly realised that Business Studies was also a Theoretical Subject (so! no escape). Since then, this Battle of Theory Vs Practical (Subjects) has been running