Read that circa 1993 because a friend recommended it. At the time he was famous for figuring out what caused the challenger space shuttle disaster back in '86Dr. Richard Feynman speaks about how to explain the phenomenon called triboluminescence to a kid while criticizing the school curriculums in his book “Surely you’re joking Mr.Feynman”
its a fascinating book and thoroughly enjoyed as an audio book.
Sadly it’s true after 50 years. more so in india. hope it changes sometime.Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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And hampering kids vision before they even hit puberty.
Enforcment should be on English and local lingo but Hindi is spoken as an official language so Hindi is a must even at basic levels.
I'm pretty sure vision is not heavily effected by phones or tablets but by lack of exposure to natural light causing something or the other to happen to the eyeball shape. I remember after attending online school for 2 years when I used to go outside I could barely look at the sky without closing my eyes, but after an year of real school my vision is better and I have no issues. This is also being reported in recent studies. Compared to textbooks e-readers or similar don't add an extra 15 KG of weight to lug up 4 flights of stairs because students aren't allowed to use elevators, e-readers don't cause stress about missing print or poor quality in books (especially these past 3 years) and as usual they don't waste trees because the book is tossed out after 2 to 3 years in most cases.
Learning an extra language is never a waste of effort in my opinion. I don't get why Hindi gets so much resistance in South when they have no problem using English that we got from our benevolent colonisers. As a kid, I was technically 'forced' to learn four languages and I got the chance to reduce it to three only when I got into high school. Hindi is not my mother tongue but I love the fact that I am nearly as fluent as a native in it. I don't use Sanskrit anywhere now but I am happy that I learned it.
Everybody I know can communicate in Hindi and it is not our mother tongue. Learning Hindi unlocks a wealth of content, educational or otherwise. I think that should be taken into consideration as well. Hindi is used primarily by some 590 million Indians which is huge. Plus, basic Hindi means you can communicate with almost all Indians, literate or not. Please correct me if I am wrong in my assumptions here.
Learning anything should be voluntary and not forced, be it a language or any other knowledge. There are still large number of people who are primarily educated only in their native language and face issues as they enter college or corporate. As for why English is adopted more compared to Hindi, the powers that be (Colleges, schools, corporates) place more value on English than local language due to the broader use case.
Fun fact. It's 2024 almost and I'm learning about 8085 as well. Asking questions has led to people shouting at me, despite professors saying 'ask me anything, no question is dumb' and all that. They just ask me to Google or shout at me for not paying attention to class. I've only had to use Laplace and Fourier once or twice throughout almost 4 years.
