Nepali Education System Teaches Students to NOT Think

Post published:September 23, 2020
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting
Reading time:7 min(s) read

Math education in Nepal is limited to committing to memory formulae after formulae and, using them, how to solve problems that have been attempted over and over again using rules and steps also committed to memory. Little to nothing about WHERE the formula came from, WHY they work, and HOW they reflect something in or about life and the real world is taught. But all that can be taught and therefore how to think. For the details of HOW to do that, read on!

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear”: Want Respect? Show Respect!

Post published:August 28, 2020
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting
Reading time:10 min(s) read

In Nepal, respect for teachers and administrators is instilled in student through the threat of violence, i.e. fear! That, of course, is despicable, just as Albert Camus says. Getting students to respect teachers is easy: just show them respect by listening to them.

Raise And Educate a Child By Showing Respect

Post published:May 29, 2020
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting
Reading time:4 min(s) read

Raise a child by beating her, the sense of unfairness and the mental agony accompanying it will not only inflict trauma in the child, she'll lose respect for you. Raise a child by showing her respect, by listening to her, she'll grow up learning what respect means and will, in turn, respect you.

Questioning the Questions Grade 11-12 Students Must Tackle, And My Solution

Post published:February 19, 2020
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting
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Even NOW as someone who majored in and taught chemistry, were I to pretend to be a grade 11 or 12 Science student in Nepal and take their Chemistry examination, I will likely not get a good grade. I wouldn't be surprised if I even fail. The reason? The questions are just completely off and what is expected as responses are also ridiculous.

What many in Nepal still struggle to understand is that if we teach students how to think, they can learn, on their own, ways to commit to memory what they must to pass examinations, something I am trying to get across in my teacher education program.

Nepali Teachers’ Association Starkly Lays Bare The Abysmally Poor Quality of Education in The Country

Post published:January 28, 2020
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting
Reading time:8 min(s) read

When teachers in Nepal demonstrate a severe lack of understanding of the problems plaguing our education system and their role in the system, and, worse, threatens to take action by punishing the very group (students) they are supposed to be serving...you know the quality of our education system is abysmally poor!