Learning and Life

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

The model followed in Pakistan in the design of curricula is basically based on rearrangements of popular course names that correspon...

It was around 2007-08, I was chatting with some top decision making executives of five private universities/institutes in Pakistan. As is c...

A Formula is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Dijkstra vs Buzan's Mind-Maps Problems with Pictures with too many details and Complexity ...

Testing/Grading vs Motivation: A Variation on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle for Academics Whenever there is a discussion of the...

Why Project Based Learning? An Experiential Learning Case Study of Language Teaching This post describes a major step in my personal jour...

Major source of congested roads: Minibuses/vans not rickshaws Have you noticed a marked reduction of the concentration of minibuses...

Moore's Law: Exponential increase in transistor density and speed In this post I trace a personal journey of my interactions wi...

I am now forced to translate "Encounter-2", an Urdu column published in 2000 because I have noticed that since 9-11 there is a fl...

V'jer of Star Trek The growth of digitization and computerization and its assimilation of everything and everyone that it touches...

This is late 1979, I had completed my intermediate, and my father had retired from his government job in Islamabad. We were moving back to ...

After debunking the myth of   what does it mean to be a PhD and PhD myths related to specialization and departmental scope of expertise , t...

Following are the myths about the PhD degree that have created an aura of difficulty around the PhD degree that discourages many from under...

Myths of Schooling and Education: Resources There are popular "Myths" about education and schools that have become a matter ...

Why Education and Why Higher Education: Leadership in Life and Society 1. What is the Purpose of Education We grew up in schools where ...

Selecting whom to consult: Psychiatrist, Neurologist, Psychologist, Educationist, "Aamil" (Exorcist), "Pir" or "S...

As my experience of dealing with students continues to accumulate, and as I closely observe how priorities of students change from what the...

A nation that has no history, has no future! Our ignorance about our history, our culture, our sensibilities are astounding. Recent protest...

Free Water Fountain on National Mall Last month during transit for a few hours at the Istanbul airport on my way to Tblisi, Georgia...

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