Thus I celebrated Teacher's Day with my student whom I taught 30 years ago and this re union took place thousands of miles away from our hometown. He came with rose- filled bouquet and fruit- studded pie.
(Will somebody post that pic here?)
(Will somebody post that pic here?)
The popular adage in Sanskrit “Matha Pitha Guru Deivam” means “Mother Father Teacher God”, describing the order of reverence to be followed. The phrase is a basic tenet from the time of the Vedas or beyond and represents the hierarchy in which one should respect these entities. Thanks to all my dear students.
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What is 'Indoctrination'?
It presupposes the intent to convert someone to a certain ideology. As with words like “doctrine,” “docent,” and “doctor” (sorry M.Ds), the Latin root of “indoctrinate” is docere, “to teach.” As humans have long acknowledged, when we teach, we necessarily impart some combination of facts and value judgments, just as any other intellectual exercise- a study, a trial, an essay, a presentation- requires us to shape or frame the knowledge we want to investigate or communicate. Whether it flatters the liberal or the conservative, there’s no such thing as “raw data,” no such thing as a purely unbiased or un-ideological stance. There are only degrees of measure, of fairness, of critical thinking. The idea that college students are indoctrinated neglects the fact that college students are capable of thinking for themselves.
It presupposes the intent to convert someone to a certain ideology. As with words like “doctrine,” “docent,” and “doctor” (sorry M.Ds), the Latin root of “indoctrinate” is docere, “to teach.” As humans have long acknowledged, when we teach, we necessarily impart some combination of facts and value judgments, just as any other intellectual exercise- a study, a trial, an essay, a presentation- requires us to shape or frame the knowledge we want to investigate or communicate. Whether it flatters the liberal or the conservative, there’s no such thing as “raw data,” no such thing as a purely unbiased or un-ideological stance. There are only degrees of measure, of fairness, of critical thinking. The idea that college students are indoctrinated neglects the fact that college students are capable of thinking for themselves.
Critics see that the introduction of a program of rigorous critical thinking by a liberal professoriate has the potential to challenge the assumptions and beliefs of young people who show up at college for an education, and they call it indoctrination. What’s actually happening is that those- certainly not all- young people who show up in colleges having already been indoctrinated- in the strict sense of the word- are being given a framework for thinking more carefully and deliberately for themselves, along with the relative freedom to do so in an environment designed to privilege reason, evidence, and skepticism over assumption, innuendo, opinion and unchallenged faith.
Yes, most eminent professors are liberal.
The fact that liberal people work on campus and liberal things happen on campus doesn’t mean college courses are instruments of liberal indoctrination.
It simply means college students have the ability to think for themselves.
Thank you.
The fact that liberal people work on campus and liberal things happen on campus doesn’t mean college courses are instruments of liberal indoctrination.
It simply means college students have the ability to think for themselves.
Thank you.
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1. Raju Narayana Swamy
2. Nishanthini
3. Anupama...
and many more... they are all great..
2. Nishanthini
3. Anupama...
and many more... they are all great..
After all, why should these officers stay at the mercy of the state government or its corrupt ministers?
They are NOT KAS or KPS; they ARE IAS or IPS:
the titles they obtained through merit after fulfilling all eligibility criteria.
Why don't they invoke their rights and privileges and alert the Central Government when they are harassed for doing the "right thing", especially when public health and public interests are at stake.
They can opt out of the Kerala cadre any time they want until such times as there are no more officers of the higher cadre left in Kerala:
when THEY SURE WILL PLUG THE LEAK.
They are NOT KAS or KPS; they ARE IAS or IPS:
the titles they obtained through merit after fulfilling all eligibility criteria.
Why don't they invoke their rights and privileges and alert the Central Government when they are harassed for doing the "right thing", especially when public health and public interests are at stake.
They can opt out of the Kerala cadre any time they want until such times as there are no more officers of the higher cadre left in Kerala:
when THEY SURE WILL PLUG THE LEAK.
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When some of you spoke about your rich, varied and ancient heritage, I never thought its this big (kidding)!
Scientists have discovered a new species of human ancestor deep in a South African cave, adding a baffling new branch to the family tree.
Acting on a tip from spelunkers two years ago, scientists in South Africa discovered what the cavers had only dimly glimpsed through a crack in a limestone wall deep in the Rising Star Cave: lots and lots of old bones.
The remains covered the earthen floor beyond the narrow opening. This was, the scientists concluded, a large, dark chamber for the dead of a previously unidentified species of the early human lineage — Homo naledi.
The new hominin species was announced on Thursday by an international team of more than 60 scientists led by Lee R. Berger, an American paleoanthropologist who is a professor of human evolution studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The species name, H. naledi, refers to the cave where the bones lay undisturbed for so long; “naledi” means “star” in the local Sesotho language.
In two papers published this week in the open-access journal eLife, the researchers said that more than 1,550 fossil elements documenting the discovery constituted the largest sample for any hominin species in a single African site, and one of the largest anywhere in the world. Further, the scientists said, that sample is probably a small fraction of the fossils yet to be recovered from the chamber. So far the team has recovered parts of at least 15 individuals.
“With almost every bone in the body represented multiple times, Homo naledi is already practically the best-known fossil member of our lineage,” Dr. Berger said.
The finding, like so many others in science, was the result of pure luck followed by considerable effort.
This Face Changes the Human Story. While primitive in some respects, the face, skull, and teeth show enough modern features to justify H. naledi's placement in the genus Homo. Artist Gurche spent some 700 hours reconstructing the head from bone scans, using bear fur for hair.
