Learning and Life

During the early 1970s before my matriculation the most difficult question of belief was how would people who have been dust and gone for ...

Should not this be true also for schools?

Is progress same as pollution?  Is destruction of nature same as "development"? I believe progress means progress of humanit...

Internet and social networks promised greater connectivity and greater access to information and greater assimilation of knowledge. The res...

[1] There are three competencies of a leader which are necessary to inspire the followers on the path towards the destination. These ...

From ivory towers to realities   By  Dr Asad Zaman Published: June 28, 2015 Curriculum Mismatch with Real Life As MIT fre...

Transforming a Disposable Culture By Dr. Irfan Hyder Disposable Relationships The emerging lifestyle of today requires that ...

Our love for the father gives us support for every day of our lives for a long time even after they have gone for years. Matriculation ...

There seems to be a rush for the mass production of "Aalims" and "Aalimas" which is in conflict with the teaching of M...

It was first week of May of 2014 and representatives of Youth Impact came to see me at CBM. I was impressed to meet the team. They talked a...

[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...