What is the status of present day education? There is a common feeling that the present day education is misdirected. Personal gain has become the central motive in education.

The present-day education system stimulates none of the above. Teaching should not be primarily a delivery system of knowledge passed down through the ages. Great teachers, ...

Similarly, in Western countries, too, fabricated stories are used as education materials. For example, George Washington didn't actually cut down his father's cherry tree and then confess to the act.

But alas our present-day education just believes in bookish knowledge and cramming which is not sufficient. The Gurukul system focussed on applied knowledge that prepared the students in all ...

Peter Smagorinsky is an emeritus professor in the University of Georgia’s College of Education. He is the 2023 recipient of the American Educational Research Association Lifetime Contribution to ...

In the past few weeks, students across the nation have held on tightly as their education has transformed. The move to online and at-home schooling in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis will ...

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona delivers the commencement address at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana, on June 4, 2022. (U.S. Department of Education) ...