Entries from September 2009 ↓

Satyal-family Discussion in Darling Harbour part one

Satyal-family Discussion in Darling Harbour part two

Satyal’s family discussion in Darling Harbor, Sydney

Conventionally, learning has always been typically seen as copying, imitating, repeating, reusing, and recollecting that finally leads to adaptation and conditioning. Commonly, learning has been synonymous to answering, not to questioning, to memorizing, not to exploring, to adapting, not to abandoning, to thinking, not to un-thinking, to doing, and not to undoing, and to accumulating, not to spending. In a way, learning needs to be redefined to suit the needs of the post-modern world.This doctrine of learning has conditioned Continue reading →

Throughout our life, we have been trained and conditioned to answer questions, be it in the exams, during job interviews, or while engaged in normal conversation. If given a choice between asking questions and giving answers, people would naturally choose to answer rather than question. In no point of time are we trained to ‘ask correct questions’ the way we are trained in ‘giving correct answers.’ We were judged not by Continue reading →

When I asked Google Search to define the word ‘evaluation’, it came up with several definitions, mostly to indicate that it is a systematic positive process to seek value in something. In the original noble purpose, meaning, sense and spirit, Evaluation is the systematic determination of merit, worth, and significance of Continue reading →

I wish people stopped inviting ministers and other high officials to inaugurate development programs and campaigns. It’s high time we realized that it hardly helps any program deliver any better results.

I also wish those Ministers and high officials refused such invitations with a realization that they are merely Continue reading →