Don't Fall Through The Cracks!

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"Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe." H.G. Wells This is an unsparing dissection of the current education system by someone who has managed to wade through it, comparatively unscathed. Unbroken and unshaken by a system that believesargely in the status-quo, writer Sid Sanghviays bare the truths aboutearning and the paradoxes in the "system'' of education. He challenges age-old notions about how information is imparted, and argues thatearning without any understanding of how toearn, is the root of the problem. The book takes a dispassionateook at the rights and wrongs perpetuated by the education system, both knowingly and unknowingly. There was a time when teachers kept a record of all the educating they had done: "911,527 blows with a rod, 124,010 blows with a cane, 20,989 taps with a ruler, 136,715 blows with the hand, 10,235 blows to the mouth, 7,905 boxes on the ear, and 1,118,800 blows on the head,'' wrote one teacher in his personal diary. Cut to the present