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Consolidate Your Vision to Navigate through Challenging Educational Landscape

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The medias, both social and mainstream, is both frenzy and abuzz with the news of a teacher being implicated by court for using corporal punishment as a method to punish underachievement in academic outcome and as possible means to boost future performance. Although corporal punishment has been legally banned in education/ school, the practice still find its spot for numerous reasons. In my analysis, teachers personal belief system on half truths of educational theories and system induced stress on teacher performance tops the reasons for the existence of corporal punishment in schools. AI generated image 1. The educational Trap of Omnipotence, cultural beliefs on adverse conditioning, and misinterpreted theories As our teachers long ago believed that corporal punishment can induce learning behaviors boosting academic achievement, do today's teachers believe the same? I have seen many do hold on to those believe. It is either because of ignorance or cultural tendency to disbelieve ...

Why Support doing Away of Cut-Off Point to Study Higher Secondary Education? (Part I)

In gratitude to my Great Druk Gyelpos Had the basic education not been free, I would be tilting mud and chasing oxen without slightest understanding of larger world. Having enjoyed seventeen years of state funded education, I can now tilt the mud and chase oxen peacefully and proudly if I have to.  Sincere gratitude to my Kings for free seven years of education. With the current government and Ministry of Education doing ground work to provide free education up to class XII by doing away with cut-off point benchmarking system, the move is worth the support. From the perspectival lenses of educationist, I would like to justify why we should support this change. 1.Education is Privilege of all Education should not be privilage of only best, bright and rich. It is weak and the poor who need more educational support. Although nothing is wrong with current policy of benchmarking based on grade to qualify students for Higher Secondary studies- considering the past financi...