Edu Research & Insights

Did the title of the blog feel absurd? Think of your life incidence where you actually learned to ride a bicycle on the busy streets of Mumbai without any training wheels. You fell many times, skinned your knees, cut your lip and hurt your ego. But you kept getting up again and again and eventually became comfortable with pedaling. It was an unforgettable experience for you—and similarly don’t you think it’s important that children today have similar life lessons both at home and in school. We live in a culture that is focused on the success of our children: admission to the "right" schools, the best college, sports teams, and countless other extracurricular activities. All parents want their children to be successful. What we forget or do not know is, ‘failure’ is also an important part of life that helps children to do trial and error and become confident in future endeavors of life. It turns out that letting kids fail, and fail big, is the best way for them to learn. It...

Source: Google The above image is the doodle by Google on 9th January 2022.  This is the image of Fatima Sheikh. She is born on this day (9 January 1831) in Pune was an Indian educator and social reformer, who was a colleague of the social reformers Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule. When Jyotirao and Savitribai were asked to vacate their ancestral house by Jyotirao’s father – as he was angry with the reform agenda of the couple – it was Fatima and her brother Usman Sheikh who opened the doors of their house for the Phules.    She is widely considered to be India’s first Muslim woman teacher. She taught at all five schools that the Phules went on to establish and she taught children of all religions and castes. Sheikh took part in the founding of two schools in Mumbai (Then Bombay) in 1851. Click to read an article on her from theprint : Source: collected and compiled through WhatsApp