Learning and Life

Curriculum's Relevance to Social Impact: Why do our graduates want to leave the country? Why do our elite schools derive their ...

Skyline with Churches The first thing that strikes one in Tbilisi, Georgia is the love Georgians have for their language and their hist...

Truth about Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD): Reasons and Revelations cchrint.org There is an epidemic of name-calling by schoo...

Overprotected Kids: Need for Risk Taking and Self Discovery Risk taking used to be part of the every day growing up experience of every c...

During the winter holidays, often extending from mid of December to mid of January, I often drive to Islamabad and back. The biggest nuisa...

Mangoe Flowers: Bur Yesterday I heard the Koel's cu-ckoo and I could hear my nani jan  (grandmother) calling from the past saying...

I was taught a very important rule about the secret of happiness and its relationship with expectations, the hard way, by my mother when I ...

How Language Acquisition is Made Difficult for Children: Eight Lessons from an Urdu Acquisition Case Study [The later part of this post ...

Of Jungles, Streams, Berries and Wild Pink Flowers: Fragrant Memories of Islamabad that Was This December I was in Islamabad. Going throu...

Fairness in Grading: A Lesson by the Great Dijkstra In my another post " Beauty is Our Business: Mathematics and Dijkstra ", ...

How to find "Buzurg" and "Wali" of Allah During the late 1970s I started reading extensively and would read whatever ...

Problems with Bloom's Taxonomy: Impact on Curriculum and Motivation of Students The basic problem with Bloom's taxonomy is d...

[To understand the context of this post, please read  At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions ] Impact of W...

[To understand the context of this post, please read  At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions ] Whither W...

Most Effective Way of Cutting a Nation from its History - Imposing a Foreign Language The project for cutting a nation from its history ...

[To understand the context of this post, please read  At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions ] At What C...

How to Sprinkle Happiness Around You: Javed Bhai (Dr Zaeem Jafri) – A Jolly Good Fellow 14-Nov-2009: Last night I got an sms that Javed ...

Ansari Sb: Khawjgan e Chisht Ahle Bahisht About a fortnight short of Eid ul Azha, I was at Saleem Shah's place when I received a mess...

Rauf Mamoo - How to Make People Feel Special and Close What a man he was! What a dashing personality! Close and dear to everyone around....

Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin Lesser known dimensions of US Universities - Archives of history and literature During my seven years...