School is pointless

By Rayn Samson, Pune

Learning to Belong

The Why and How of Education

Declaration of Decolonizing Education

I can no longer accept a narrative of education, which teaches me that my village grandmother…

Dumbing down our food systems

Us: So, what do you think you’re grandparents ate when they were children?”

Your College Degree is Worthless

This is not a judgement, it’s just a fact.

Falling in love with…a Tree

One of my students once said: Leny, in my mind I keep thinking and saying “I Love Nature” but I don’t feel it in my body, in my emotions, in my heart. I want to change that.

So one of the exercises I do in class is to tell the students to go outside and…

The Seven Deadly Sins of Schooling

by Manish Jain

All over the world, from governments to media houses to corporates to NGOs to UN agencies, schooling and modern education is being sold as the panacea to all social, health, economic and environmental woes. Those who are not…

The Neoliberalisation of Education and its Alternatives

The Call to Hack the Education System

THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES: HACKING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

Let us start with a story about the state of our education system to help set a context for this larger vision…

Animal School in India

Here is a little Indianized adaptation I did of The Animal School: A Fable by George Reavis, a school superintendent…