Jagadeeshan, Shashidhar
(2013)
Enabling spaces:
does it really matter?
a dialogue between two friends.
Learning Curve (21).
pp. 8-10.
Abstract
Two friends, one of them a school teacher (T), are
meeting after a long time. They soon begin
talking and education becomes the topic of their
discussion.
F: Your school is really beautiful and the children
here seem very happy and friendly. But, tell me
something. I see that tremendous energy goes
into creating and running these schools. Does
education really need special conditions?
T: I guess there are two questions here. What is
the goal of education, and how does the
school environment impact children?
F: But wait a minute. School environment doesn’t
seem so important. We know that children can
learn under all kinds of circumstances, for
instance in war-torn regions, in abject poverty,
in conditions of hostility and domestic
violence. So why all this fuss about enabling
spaces? Does it really matter?
T: Would you voluntarily want your child to
grow up under such hostile conditions?
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