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The Performance Generation

Are We Raising Children to Show Off, Not to Do? We've all mastered one skill in the social media age: selling ourselves. Scroll through any feed and you'll find a masterclass in personal branding — curated highlight reels, humble-brags dressed up as gratitude posts, and achievements packaged for maximum visibility. But here's a question worth sitting with: do we really need to market everything? The Quiet Ones We Never Meet Think about the genuinely skilled craftsmen and artists around us — people who sign, draw, paint, sculpt, build, compose, create — quietly, without an audience in mind. A carpenter who has spent forty years perfecting joinery no one photographs. A classical musician who plays for the sheer discipline of it, never for a reel. Most of us will never know their names, because their worth was never contingent on being seen. Meanwhile, social media hands visibility to whoever promotes loudest, not necessarily whoever does the most meaningful work. Algorithms d...
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Welcome

I have just created this blog to share the excitement the I have experienced, and is experiencing, in the field of education. The glitter in the eyes of the young minds that you come across is fascinating. The words that you share with them are carried with utmost care and you feel wonderful. Welcome you all to share your views and post your comments to create a enriched world. Arindam

Vocational skills training

The madness of the last 2 years is settling down a little - jumping from vocational training to higher education; enough to allow me to reflect on the amazing experience of vocational skills training at the grassroots levels in India. Industrial Training Institutes On one hand, we have the ITIs (Industrial Training Institutions, for the uninitiated); reasonably good hard infrastructure (buildings, machines, facilities) and extremely poor soft infrastructure (people, quality of training and even basic discipline). It has been a great experience for me to be acting as Chairman for 7 ITIs in Haryana for the past 30 months. Taking a closer look, the students coming into these institutions from the villages in the state have great potential and most of them, contrary to popular belief, come in with a lot of expectation. However, they soon become part of the web of “free” education with no accountability on the quality of training. New buildings are made, but housekeeping staff (‘sweeper’ in...