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Decolonisation of the mind
“Decolonisation actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew...
2023-02-04 18:30:00 0
Let’s celebrate in(ter)dependence
“Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects...
2023-01-28 18:30:00 0
Big dance in little Davos
“The advocates of free markets in all their visions say that crises...
2023-01-21 18:30:00 0
Democracy at its best, or is it?
“Democracy is necessarily despotism. As it establishes an executive...
2023-01-14 18:30:00 0
Resolve to protect the planet
“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally...
2022-12-31 18:30:00 0
A Christmas with less suffering
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let...
2022-12-24 18:30:00 0
It’s time to consider education as a common good
“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest...
2022-12-17 18:30:00 0
Are politicians afraid of education?
“We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we...
2022-11-12 18:30:00 0
Would privatisation be the magic wand?
“The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to...
2022-11-05 18:30:00 0
Is tax a dirty word?
“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than...
2022-10-29 18:30:00 0
Prison Economics
“Imprisonment…is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination...
2022-10-15 18:30:00 0
Education: the sustainable preventive care
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your...
2022-10-08 18:30:00 0
Learning how to learn
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to...
2022-09-10 18:30:00 0
Elementary economics and education
“The individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and...
2022-08-06 18:30:00 0
Is it time to change, at least now?
“We shall never change our political leaders or the way our...
2022-07-22 18:30:00 0
Learning from the environment
“Power is the strongest drug we can feed on. Power over the self is...
2022-07-15 18:30:00 0
Schools are closed: the best time to learn
“To develop a complete mind: Study the Science of Art and the Art of...
2022-07-08 18:30:00 0
The new-normal none knew
“Under heaven, all can see beauty as beauty, only because there is...
2022-06-25 18:30:00 0
Sports as a part of the solution
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire...
2022-06-11 18:30:00 0
Entrepreneurship or corruption?
“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of...
2022-05-28 18:30:00 0
Issues of the middle class
“The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be...
2022-05-07 18:30:00 0
Unity doesn’t have to be uniformity
“Many people regard it as a hopeless task to search for a unifying...
2022-04-30 18:30:00 0
It’s time to rewrite our social contract
“Many of us bought into society’s social contract of success. Which...
2022-04-16 18:30:00 0
Civil disobedience campaign
“That Government is best which governs least. When citizens are...
2022-04-08 18:30:00 0
What do we see beyond the stratum of politicians?
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they...
2022-04-02 18:30:00 0
Causes and effects of corruption
“Without strong watchdog institutions, impunity becomes the very...
2022-03-19 18:30:00 0
Collective responsibility
“It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern...
2022-02-26 18:30:00 0
Post-Covid ‘Developing’ Economies
“Countries don’t create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies...
2021-12-25 18:30:00 0
Goodwill: The best tool for a leader
“Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean...
2021-12-11 18:30:00 0
Incompetence knows no barrier of time or place
“Many a man, under the old and new systems, has made the upward step...
2021-11-20 18:30:00 0
Copping out of agreements made at Climate Change conference
“See the world as you see yourself. Have faith in the way things are...
2021-11-13 18:30:00 0
Educational leadership during the pandemic and beyond
“It is said you can survive forty days without food, eight days...
2021-11-06 18:30:00 0
It’s good to be the king
“The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The...
2021-10-09 18:30:00 0
Indigenous knowledge on sustainability
“When the last tree is cut down, the last river poisoned, the last...
2021-10-02 18:30:00 0
Big dance in the big apple
“There is no such thing as the United Nations. If the UN secretary...
2021-09-25 18:30:00 0
Target-oriented education
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will...
2021-08-28 18:30:00 0
Military in the business of education
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World...
2021-08-14 18:30:00 0
He who lives by the sword dies by the sword
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered...
2021-08-07 18:30:00 0
Is Space Tourism the need of the hour?
“The best proof that there is intelligent life in outer space is the...
2021-07-31 18:30:00 0
Upside down world of education
“We seem to have forgotten that the expression ‘a liberal education’...
2021-07-24 18:30:00 0
Saving Democracy from the illiterate
“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to...
2021-07-17 18:30:00 0
What is missing in entrepreneurship syllabi?
“People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories,...
2021-07-10 18:30:00 0
What is the box in ‘thinking out-of-the-box?’
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...
2021-07-03 18:30:00 0
Education during the pandemic
“Methods of instruction in education systems around the world tend to...
2021-06-26 18:30:00 0
Are we educating ourselves for global citizenship?
“No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a Democracy. Rather...
2021-06-19 18:30:00 0
Science of astrology is back
“I don’t believe in Astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we are skeptical...
2021-06-11 18:30:00 0
Economic prosperity through education
“Economic growth without investment in human development is...
2021-04-24 18:30:00 0
Economics of Discrimination
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his...
2021-04-17 18:30:00 0
United we (under)stand divided we fall (prey)
“United we stand divided we fall” is a quote that is used quite often...
2021-04-10 18:30:00 0
How common is “Common Sense”?
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for...
2021-03-27 18:30:00 0

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