Nelson Mandela has famously said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world “.
And nothing could be truer. Education acts as the stepping stone for one’s life and aids in a child’s overall development. In addition, it boosts our communication skills and makes us more efficient in the workplace as well as in our day to day life.
However, the past seventeen months have been a rollercoaster, with pros and cons in every area including education. Students all over the globe have been stuck at home with the feeling of uncertainty and doubt…
Everyone is taken aback by the Indian Government passing this momentous, yet much-required decision yesterday night. Although the Education system was somewhat jilted with this development, reparations are possible and at the time being, the students’ health is of paramount concern. Speaking of students, they are having mixed feelings regarding the entire matter. While the inscrutable know-it-alls wallow in remorse, having devoted months in studying the subjects & awaiting their chance to perform, the more common riffraff rejoice whole-heartedly.
In any case, all students currently have some time on their hands, until college life finally beckons and embroils them in…
With more than a year of online education, its disadvantages & fallacies are known to the student generation like the back of their hands. However, what we don’t discuss at length are its many unseen & unrealised advantages. Let us take you through some of them.
1. Scheduling Flexibility
Online classes have allowed scheduling flexibility since you can literally attend many courses strictly on your terms, at the time you prefer. Even if you miss out on some classes, the teachers are more than willing to provide recorded lectures. This has bestowed upon students certain powers, which was not possible in traditional means of learning, wherein they are tightly bound to the rules & terms of the institution.
2. Lower Total Costs
Many prospective students overlook the cost advantages of online classes. Although online education exacts the same basic amount as traditional fees, the overall costs…
It has been more than a year since we started deriving all our educational input from an enclosed space of pixels. Sure, it gets tiresome, with your body aching and eyes pleading for mercy or a splash of water. While the majority of the student generation is already tech-savvy, the teachers took some getting used to as far as this medium is concerned. While they were at it, entire lectures on mute, endless repetitions of ‘Can you hear me’ like a broken record and accidentally ending the meeting were common phenomena. However, granted a few months, conditions have improved immensely…
Currently as of 2021, there exist about 7,000 spoken languages in the world. These have evolved through millennia of human cultural & social development, the product of an interplay of several factors. The linguistic process is never static. Even now, several languages are undergoing constant changes — additions, omissions, alterations and so on. Research has estimated that in a couple of thousand years in the future, the languages that exist now would have evolved so much that they would hardly be recognizable.
The ability to communicate through a structure of patterns, symbols & sounds is undeniably one of the most precious gifts of humanity. (A pity, we still spend most of the time growling & bellowing at each other like savages.) It has elevated mankind upon the pedestal of the higher social being. Although there are animals on Earth who understand & communicate with signals & sounds of their own, these are on a very rudimentary level.
Most people around the world are proficient in at least one language, i.e their mother tongue. Over 43% of the world’s population are bilingual and…
Try taking over the world armed with Schrodinger’s equation or the comprehensive history of the Roman Empire.
In no way we mean to undermine the beauty of venturesome science, lawful physics & the enigmatic history of our world. Undeniable noble pursuits — all of them, but one must realise that our life shouldn’t be dancing to academic strings alone.
Humans have an inherent tendency to classify and segregate. While we have had our fair share of chaos; efforts are garnered immediately to expunge the existing irregularities. Barbaric hordes are prone to wreak anarchic destruction, but the wheels of civilization ultimately move once again to restore order & framework in desolate chaos. …
Do you feel immense comfort & confidence in your native tongue?
Does conversing in a language you are less fluent in makes you feel nervous, disoriented and conscious?
Do you find conversing in English to be comforting and carefree?
Do you feel suave & sophisticated in muttering some words of French?
Our personality — an unarranged heap of thoughts, opinions & actions are ultimately guided & defined by the language we speak. Every language of the world has within itself the individual values of that culture, which over the years have become deeply entrenched. It is no wonder that the…
LearnBowl as an online educational platform strives to widen the purview of its students beyond academic learning. There is no doubt that an academically devised curriculum is important for any individual’s development. However, the learning process should not conclude at that point.
In our endeavour to facilitate holistic learning for our students, Learnbowl offers handpicked courses on the most relevant skills & attributes that are demanded of any person in today’s world. We intend to prepare our students for life & making the most out of it. …
Brace yourselves for an existential revelation.
We would still be subsiding on roots, Learnbowl shoots & flesh if our fellow ancestor never wondered whether the luscious fruit that grew out of the seeds, he so callously scattered was edible or not. We would have never made the transition to houses from caves, to mink & muslin from leaves and to Jet planes from the bullock carts of old. People would not have thrived; villages & towns would not have developed and civilization would have remained stuck in limbo. …
