Sriparna, Tamhane
(2013)
Enabling learning outside the classroom.
Learning Curve (21).
pp. 34-36.
Abstract
“A child is not a vase to be filled but a fire to be lit”
was the opinion of the French renaissance scholar
and writer Francois Rabelais. Numerous
educationists of eminence across centuries since
then, have held that the true purpose of education
is the blossoming of the individual in every
possible way. Why, then have we focused so hard
on “filling the vase” in our schools, while the
“lighting of the fire” doesn’t seem to fit somehow
into the overall agenda at all? Why have we
turned education into the mere transfer of
information where the entire focus of one’s life is
one’s performance in exams?
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