Category: <span>Education</span>

30 Jun

The 3 Idiots of the Education System

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think”. ~ Anne Sullivan.

I was conducting a Discover Your True Calling workshop at IIM, Indore last week. I had the afternoon free and decided to see the much acclaimed, high-grossing Bollywood movie – “3 Idiots”. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, largely because it is a complete indictment of our education system. The message was strikingly similar to the theme of my workshop.

The film is about three students who do not really fit into the prestigious engineering college and are considered idiots by their professor. However, the movie clearly shows who the three real idiots are – the educational system, the teachers and the parents. Reflecting on the movie on the flight back to Mumbai, I realized that any real change in education is possible only by transforming these three constituencies.

Idiot #1 – The Education System:

Our current system is performance-oriented rather than mastery-oriented. The emphasis on examinations forces students to learn by rote. They focus on scoring high marks rather than investing the time and energy to understand the subject in depth. A system where true geniuses like Einstein and Ramanujan are considered poor students really needs its head examined. In the movie, this is brilliantly brought out by Aamir Khan playing Rancho – the truly outstanding engineer who goes beyond the book to gain mastery.

Idiot #2 – The Teachers:

Our current system of pedagogy is faculty-led and follows a fixed curriculum. The average teacher assumes that there is one right answer and that (s)he knows the answer. It is the rare teacher who has the ability to facilitate rather than teach, to nurture rather than preach and to support students who stray from the well-trodden path in search of creative ways to learn. Boman Irani as Viru Sahastrabuddhe does a superb job of bringing to life a dogmatic, highly competitive, over-confident college professor – the antithesis of an ideal teacher in every way.

Idiot #3 – The Parents:

When India’s HRD Minister Kapil Sibal suggested scrapping of the 10th grade exams, parents were the first to stand up against the proposal. Parents want their children to be at the top of their classes, get admitted to the best colleges and follow traditional career options – engineering, medicine, management and the like.

Parents rarely encourage their children to discover their true passions and pursue mastery rather than mediocrity. The movie’s middle class Quereshis, who want their son to be an engineer, and the poorer Rastogis, who see education as a way out of poverty, are typical of today’s Indian parents. They would probably be the toughest nut to crack.

The 21st century calls for talented people who are masters in their chosen fields of work. It calls for collaboration among passionate individuals, from different disciplines, to address the truly challenging issues and opportunities that the world presents. The current assembly-line approach to education falls severely short. We are not equipping our children to succeed in their world. The appeal of the movie is universal and obvious.

But what will it take for all three of the constituencies above, as well as the student community to rally around to a new educational order? Please share your perspectives. We need to work together to bring about transformation in this vital area of our society.



Source by Sudhakar Ram

27 Jun

Why Early Childhood Education?

Although this article is about early childhood education in Kansas, many other states are adding early education to their curriculum. Different states and individual school districts may vary greatly in the nature of programs, but they each have some common goals and features.

Many of the school districts in Kansas are adding prekindergarden programs for children that begin at the age of three. Though the age of three may seem too early to begin a child’s education, there is a growing interest in early childhood education. A child’s brain grows to about 90% of its capacity by the age of five. They are likened to a sponge, soaking up everything they see, hear, and experience. Children are adept at learning language then, and many skills they need later in life build on those early experiences.

The first formal research in the US on early childhood education was in Minnesota in the 1960’s. Two groups of children were randomly divided into an Experimental group, who received two years of early childhood education, and a Control group, who did not. The Experimental group was provided experiences that help children grow and thrive, such as stable and nurturing relationships with other children and adults, a language rich environment, experience with routines, and encouragement to explore through movement and their senses. They also learned to take turns, to lead and follow in play, to seek help when needed, to recognize emotions, and to control their impulses. In addition, they become familiar with numbers, the alphabet, and problem-solving skills.

Upon entering traditional school, the Experimental group members were more successful in the early grades, but it was found that by age 10 they performed about the same as their peers. The researchers were disappointed at first, but when they followed the Experimental group through school and into adulthood, they found many improvements. The experimental group were less likely to repeat grades or need remedial classes, and they were more likely to graduate from high school and attend college. They were also more successful in their careers and less likely to experienced health problem or be involved with the criminal justice system.

It was found that the children in early childhood education do better if the parents and caregivers are involved in the process. Many schools involve the parents through home visits and also encourage daycare centers to have children practice skills learned in early childhood education.

Surprisingly, the Federal Reserve is interested in research in early childhood education as a way to improve the workforce and improve economic development. The economic value of early childhood education programs has been found to greatly outweigh the cost. Economists who have analyzed the costs and benefits find that there is a rate of return of $5 to $15 for every dollar invested, with disadvantaged children seeing the greatest benefit. While children and their families benefit from investments in early education, the majority of benefits accrue to communities and society as a whole. It is also likely that the children become better parents and better citizens, extending the benefits forward.

Kansas legislators and educators are becoming more interested in early childhood education as they try to spend education dollars more efficiently. The 2019 Kansas Legislature increased K-12 school funding to allow for inflation, and the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the increase was adequate. However, Kansas should not be satisfied with just adequate.

Kansas has always been known for its excellent schools, and we should keep it that way. One way to do that would be to increase early education programs. There are both Federal and private grants available to develop early childhood learning programs. The Kansas Legislature should also consider providing additional funding to start and maintain those programs. It would be an efficient way to improve educational outcomes at a minimal cost, and it would be a wise investment in our future.



Source by Jesse C Moore

24 Jun

The Secrets of Top Students by Stefanie Weisman

“The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College” by Stefanie Weisman is chock full of strategies to do just what she claims in the title, Ace High School and College. This is an outstanding book for any student who wants to do better in school. Following Weisman’s advice won’t only help you get better grades, but you’ll learn a lot more too.

I did very well in high school and college, but not as good as Weisman. Her accomplishments are very impressive, and besides her own first hand knowledge, she included tips and strategies from many others who also excelled throughout their schooling. (Valedictorians like Weisman, Rhodes scholars, Fulbright scholars, Intel Science Fair finalists, National Spelling Bee champions and others like these.) I read the book because I speak to and work with students, and I also wanted to see how it would be for my daughter to read. It’s one I definitely will have her read when she’s a bit older, but since she asked why she had to wait, maybe I’ll let her read it now and then again when she starts high school.

What I really like is that this book isn’t just another “how to study” book. It is much more than that. While it does include advice on how to maximize your studying, it also provides information on the entire learning experience, including why you should want to be a better student in the first place.

There are chapters on motivation, time management, how taking care of your body will improve your mind and ability to study, learn, and get good grades. There is a chapter on navigating the game of academia, which is important. The actual study tips are divided into what you should do in the class room and how to take notes, learning to read for school, honing your homework skills, how to write a paper, and getting ready for and taking tests.

The book also includes a few helpful exercises to help students practice what they have learned in regards to taking notes, staying motivated, etc. And again, I like that the book talks about lifestyle tips and techniques, and not just study tips. There are a a lot of things during high school and college that will effect your grades. It’s not just how you write papers and take tests. This book does an excellent job at covering a lot of areas and providing a lot of practical advice without going too far and give students another voluminous text book to read. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to become a top student.



Source by Alain Burrese

21 Jun

Tips to Improve Mental Awareness

Research states that you need to focus on affirmation and positive thoughts in order to make maximum use of your mind’s full capability. You must have mental awareness without which your thoughts will become scattered and decrease your ability to generate positive vibes in your life.

Importance of mental awareness:

Having good control on your mental consciousness helps you to know who you are, your needs, strengths as well as weaknesses. It also allows you to divert your energy to make healthy decisions and thereby solve your problems. It also facilitates enhanced control on your self image and self esteem and yield you good results.

Alternatively, lack of mental awareness is referred as common most depression symptoms. This situation is escorted by no motivation, absence of emotions, lack of energy to achieve anything in life, scattered thoughts, no confidence, and feeling of loneliness, self doubt and fear.

Hence if you wish to achieve something in life, you first need to improve your mental alertness. Mind conditioning can serve as an effective tool to improve your emotional wellness. Various stress management tips also prove effective to considerable extent.

Here are a few tips that will help you improve mental awareness:

Meditation:

This is an effective self help technique that develops your mental and emotional awareness. Meditation flushes out all the multi-faceted thoughts from brain thus improving concentration and focus. You can meditate just by sitting comfortably and focus with your eyes closed. Think of your brain as an empty room and try to gather awareness into it.

Self help books:

To master the skills of personal development and self improvement, firstly you need to study the tips to improve your mental attentiveness. This is the foremost self help tip that you must be aware of. Try to make use of self help tips to improve your quality of life. First improve your mental consciousness and then try to look out for self help tips related to other topics.

Mental awareness coach:

A mental awareness coach can be of lot of help to you. They help you look deep inside yourself through their eyes. Also, they will enlighten you on stress management tips which can assist you to advance your mental state. A coach will work as a mentor to offer you guidance as well as motivation.

Self practice:

It is difficult to improve your mental responsiveness as it requires you to be in a state where you are willing to do anything and everything to stay in a mentally aware situation. Therefore, it is essential to discipline yourself accordingly.

Warning signs:

Several negative stuffs can seep in to your mind and disturb your mental wellness, hence be aware of warning signs. Warnings signs are nothing but your own thoughts, expressions as well as words. Words have a dominant impact on your way of thinking. Stay away from words such as problems, don’t, impossible and difficult as warning signs to inform you when you are nearing the safer boundaries of mental awareness.



Source by Aditi Mohan Jaiswal

15 Jun

Random Facts Versus Whole Science Approach to Homeschool Teaching

When it comes to learning science, most of us were taught in the public school system, which is a big proponent of the random fact teaching methodology. In other words, science was a single subject taught in a vacuum separate from other subjects. When it comes to teaching difficult or complex subjects such as science, it makes more sense to take a holistic approach. Here’s why.

The Science Random Fact Junk Drawer

There has been much news lately about the American education crisis in regards to a lack of interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) disciplines. The United States is falling behind other developed countries when it comes to new technologies and discoveries, mainly because it is producing fewer graduates with related degrees.

One of the reasons for this lack of interest in STEM disciplines is due to the way kids are taught. Students often learn a bit of science here and a bit of science there without being provided any logical way to connect the dots. This collection of random facts can be likened to your junk drawer at home – you know there’s a screwdriver in the midst of all those rubber bands and paper clips and batteries and gadgets somewhere, you just can’t find it amongst all the clutter.

The same holds true for kids learning science. For instance, if a child learns a little something about the earth and the moon and how the shadow of our planet can cause a lunar eclipse, that’s an interesting, but random, fact. You might also have taught your child some astronomy concepts and explained how the moon affects the ocean’s tides. Perhaps your child has also learned something about gravity and the moon’s gravitational pull. But if you are using many mainstream homeschool science curricula, those facts were never pulled together to show the student how the moon is at the core of all these facts and they are interrelated. That’s why it’s so difficult for many kids (and adults alike!) to make the leap between one science fact and how it impacts so many other areas of the world around us. This also makes it very hard to extract a random fact later because the child must rely on rote learning.

The Whole Science Teaching Approach

A better, more effective way to teach homeschool science is through an exponential approach. By helping kids make their own connection between subjects, they are much better equipped to draw broader conclusions. This is also a great way to encourage their natural curiosity and develop hands-on experimentation that offers exciting new discoveries in the child’s mind.

The whole science homeschool teaching approach is all about extrapolation. Once your student has assimilated some core concepts they are prepared to expand that knowledge and apply it to different, everyday situations.

For instance, let’s go back to that random fact about the moon’s gravitational pull on earth. That’s a physic concepts and that explains much about a lunar eclipse, which is a topic generally brought up in astronomy. Those same gravitational forces are at work when it comes to oceanic tide cycles, a topic that may be part of biology learning. By painting the bigger picture, a student can connect the dots between physics and astronomy and biology herself and become excited about learning more.

This approach also compartmentalizes and organizes bits of information so they can easily be retrieved at will and on demand. And it aids the homeschool science teacher, who often doesn’t understand the information herself, present complex concepts and help the student come to a conclusion that need not be foregone.

When it comes to teaching a difficult subject such as science, the homeschool teacher would be wise to use a whole science approach rather than relying on a random fact methodology.



Source by Dr Rebecca Keller

12 Jun

Significance Of Equivalent Fractions In Math Learning

Basic math skills are one of the keys to succeed in math. To study basic math, students need to learn fractions as the major part of arithmetic and hence, as the basic math. To learn fractions, they can be divided into many subsections. One most basic subsection in fraction study is the equivalent fractions. Students need to know two main things about the equivalent fractions and they are their definition and their applications to other sections of fractions and mathematics.

The definition:

When two factions have the same value then they are called the equivalent fractions. Note that, these fractions have different numerators and denominators, but still represent the same part of a whole or a group of things.

Let’s take an example of two equivalent fractions from a daily life activity. Consider Ron and Billy are two brothers and Ron likes cheese pizza and Billy likes pepperoni pizza.

Their mom makes two pizzas of same size for them, cheese for Ron and pepperoni for Billy. Ron likes to eat small slices, so mom cuts his cheese pizza into six equal slices. Billy doesn’t care about the size of the slice so mom just cuts pepperoni pizza into four big slices.

Now, Billy eats two slices out of all four slices of pepperoni pizza and hence he eats “half” of his pizza which can be written as a fractions of “2/4”. Ron gets hungry and he eats three slices of his cheese pizza and which can be written as 3/6. But, 3 out of 6 slices is also “half”. So, Ron eats half of his pizza too.

So both boys eats same amount of each pizza, which is half. But Ron’s amount is 3/6 of his pizza and Billy eats 2/4 of his pizza, but both of them eat equal amount of a pizza which is half. Therefore, 2/4 and 3/6 are the equivalent fractions, as they represent the same amount of pizza eaten by two persons.

You can pick any other similar example to explain it further to kids, such as, two same sized apples cut into two and four equal pieces. Many sites online have more ideas about the concept and can be used to improve the knowledge of kids in this basic math skill.

Applications in math:

Equivalent fractions have many applications to learn higher fractional topics. There are the following main fractional topics, which need the knowledge of equivalent fractions as a base:

1. To simplify fractions into lowest terms
2. Comparing and ordering fractions
3. Adding and subtracting fractions

Therefore, kids need to know equivalent fractions before they want to learn above topics of fractions. Therefore, it is the best idea to review your kids knowledge of this topic before asking him/her to do the higher math topics.

As a conclusion, kids in elementary grades need to know the definition and the applications of equivalent fractions to learn higher math or arithmetic concepts. Kids can start learning this skill as soon as they get the basic idea of writing fractions or drawing fractions. Also most kids in grade three learn this skill.



Source by Manjit Singh Atwal

09 Jun

Cancer, Ancient Atomic Mathematics and the Science-Art of Quantum Biology

As is commonly known, the pursuit of happiness ideal was fused into the basic design of the Constitution of the United States of America. Surprisingly, no one seems to know why and how that came about. Scholars knew it had something to do with a message from ancient Egypt’s ‘Eye of Horus’, depicted at the top of a pyramid as part of the Great Seal of America. They also knew that this all-seeing eye message had been linked to the work of the Greek mathematician, Pythagoras, who had studied political ethics in ancient Egypt.

Some thought that the message might relate to a happiness of acquiring wealth through mechanical industrialisation. However, the discovery of quantum biology during the 21st Century demonstrated that a far greater potential wealth exists within new technologies able to harness the previously unknown natural properties of carbon, belonging to human life forms. The old acquisition of wealth, derived from a mechanical mindset, is now well recognised as being the cause of a future unsustainable carcinogenic existence on planet Earth. Within Science-Art research, humanity has an innate non-mechanical association with Einstein’s protege, David Bohm’s holographic universe.

The first Science-Art discovery of a holographic living force occurred late in the 20th Century, and came about by reuniting science with artistic feelings. This unification led to the discovery of new physics laws governing optimum seashell growth and development through space-time. These physics laws appear to belong to the ancient mathematics governing the political ethics embedded into the ‘pursuit of happiness’ concept. The world’s largest technological institute, IEEE in Washington, reprinted this scientific breakthrough as one of the important optics discoveries of the 20th Century, placing it alongside such names as Louis Pasteur and Sir Francis Crick.

This historical event was fused into quantum biology research theory, by the recipients of the 2010 Gorgio Napolitano Medal, awarded on behalf of the Republic of Italy for their quantum biological physics and chemistry discoveries. The second discovery was that some artists throughout history had unconsciously depicted hidden stereoscopic, holographic images, in their paintings. While new technologies have developed infinite fractal logic techniques to manufacture such images, prevailing science remains completely oblivious to the fact that the human mind can create them. This is one example of the mathematician, Cantor’s observation, that the mindset of modern science is inhabited by an unnatural fear of infinity, denying Newton’s first principles of creative gravitational force by substituting the foolish falling apple myth in its place.

In order to provide a brief outline of this interesting, but very controversial story, a historical explanation appears to be warranted. Pythagoras’ research was a precursor to the Platonic tradition of ancient Greek mathematical culture. That tradition fused further ethical concepts into Egyptian ethical atomic mathematics, in order to invent ethical science during the 3rd Century BC. The Egyptian mathematics was about the purpose of sacred geometry within invisible atoms, to make tiny seeds from which forms of life throughout the universe emerged. During the Egyptian Second Kingdom, their sacred geometrical logic, concerning justice, compassion and mercy, had been fused into political law, and later copied by other civilisations, to legalise the construction of hospitals and policies of caring for the aged.

The founding fathers of the flawed American Democratic system of politics attempted to establish a greater ethical, scientific, political system from ancient Greek science. However, the Christian Church, during the 4th Century AD, had declared the pagan mathematics to be the work of the Devil. Saint Augustine had incorrectly translated the property of unformed chaos within the atom, as being the evil of female sexuality. He associated the mathematics with the mechanistic worship of Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of prostitution and war. However, this was not the mathematics that the Great Library of Alexandria was developing at the time. Nonetheless its Science-Art scrolls were destroyed by rioting Christian fanatics.

The linking of the Egyptian pursuit of happiness concept to quantum biological cancer research, during the 21st Century, was clearly predicted by the mathematician, Georg Cantor. Born in 1845, Cantor developed his infinite mathematical theories from the ancient Greek ethical science, derived from earlier Egyptian atomic mathematics. His work is now basic to modern scientific science. However, Cantor’s ability to intuit the future discovery of Mandelbrot’s infinite fractal logic, embraced ideas that prevailing Christian oriented science, finds completely incomprehensible.

Cantor knew that Aristotle was a central figure in the Platonic tradition of philosophy and investigated the mathematical theory upholding his research into the pursuit of happiness concept. Aristotle had linked the pursuit of happiness to a future science, to guide ennobling government for the health of the universe. This idea was obviously about a future medical science, using sacred geometrical logical ideas, beyond the limitations of our prevailing science, which considers that the only universal energy in existence flows from hot to cold. Cantor saw that the living process extended to infinity, in contradiction to this universal heat death concept, which condemns all life to eventual extinction. This universal heat death sentence became scientifically irrevocable after Charles Darwin used it as the basis of his evolutionary theory. Later, Einstein declared that this entropic law governed all aspects of science, including political, economic and medical.

When the framers of the American Constitution tried to bring Aristotle’s political vision into reality they defined the ethical idea of liberty incorrectly. Liberty embracing the pursuit of happiness within a medical science for universal health was assumed to obey Sir Isaac Newton’s emotionless laws governing the workings of his mechanical universe. The Founding Fathers, unaware of Newton’s more natural, profound theory of gravitation, erroneously based the concept of liberty only upon his mechanical description of the universe. Newton published his little known theory at the risk of being burnt alive by order of the Church. He insisted that gravitational force was a non-mechanical spiritual force evolving emotional consciousness within an infinite universe. As a result of publishing that opinion he was held by the Church to be criminally insane, and suffered a mental breakdown for which he was hospitalised.

Newton was most likely aware that his contemporary, the philosopher of science, Giordano Bruno, had been imprisoned by the Church in Rome, tortured, then burnt alive for teaching about the ethical Greek science at Oxford University. Newton’s published heretical gravitational theory was featured in his 28th Query Discussions in the second edition of his famous journal, Opticks, as anyone can easily verify. Also, his unpublished Heresy Papers and copies of his private letters, written during the height of his genius, demonstrate that Newton was not insane when he published his spiritual theory of gravity. Newton most certainly did not believe that reality was governed by the functioning of a clockwork universe, as modern quantum mechanics science had incorrectly assumed.

The Romantic era, from about 1800 to 1850, consisted of an artistic, literary and philosophical movement, which erroneously condemned Newton for promoting lifeless theories of science. The movement was ignorant that his first physics principles actually associated gravity with the living process, derived from ancient Greek Platonic science. William Blake, the poet and artist, along with other principle figures of the Romantic era, held Newton in contempt. They had not realised that Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, one of the most influential philosophers of science in the history of Western philosophy, had given electromagnetic properties to Newton’s concept of emotional gravitational force. They were also unaware of the scientific insights of the poet, Alexander Pope, who had been greatly praised by Kant for his knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy.

Alexander Pope is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. His famous ‘Essay on Man’ consisted of four parts. The first Epistle, was about man’s place in the universe; Epistle II, was concerned with the individual person; Epistle III related to man within human society governed by political structures; and Epistle IV with the political ideal of the pursuit of happiness.

Alexander Pope’s concept of an ethical infinite universal purpose can be seen to be compatible to Newton’s theory of gravitational force, evolving ethical emotional consciousness within an infinite universe. Einstein modified Newton’s theory of light and later altered it to give more credence to Newton’s original concept. Some scholars have considered that Alexander Pope’s linking of Newton’s theory of light to an infinite ethical purpose, from the perspective of Kantian pure logic, explains why Immanuel Kant considered Alexander Pope to be a great genius. Pope’s ideas were well known to the leaders of the electromagnetic Golden Age of Danish Science.

In 2002, Harvard University and Massachusetts University held an international symposium to tell the world of the social importance of the message of the electromagnetic Danish Golden Age of Science. They noted that its crucial message had been written mostly in Danish and not translated, making it invisible to English speaking scholarship. However, Immanuel Kant, a leading personality of that Golden Age, had written that the English poet, Alexander Pope, had given the ancient Greek theories an artistic expression. The discoverer of the electromagnetic field, Hans Christian Oersted and his colleague, Friedrich Schelling, were also principle figures of the Golden Age. Their own Science-Art theories gave credence to Newton’s first principles, necessary for the healthy and ethical evolution of humanity. Their theories have been associated with Alexander Pope’s development of a similar concept.

Georg Cantor’s mathematical logic condemned the idea that all life in the universe must be destroyed after its heat had radiated away into cold space. This universal heat death law simply contradicted his discovery of mathematical infinity, which he had linked to the evolution of life. His work, attacked by many of the world’s leading mathematicians, led to his conclusion that the scientific mind was inhabited by a primitive, myopic fear of infinity. The solution to this emotionally traumatic, carcinogenic situation can be easily obtained in the light of advanced quantum biology cancer research. But it requires a more profound understanding about Aristotle’s concept of a medical science needed to guide ennobling government.

A first step is to produce evidence that this illogical scientific fear of infinity does exist. Modern science knows very well that an infinite fractal logic exists, but it is unable to allow for fractals to be part of the living process as it is obsessed with its falsely assumed thermodynamic extinction. This is completely illogical because the functioning of the molecule of emotion has been identified, beyond doubt, as obeying infinite fractal logic.

A second step is to refer to Sir Isaac Newton’s firm conviction that the universe is infinite. His first principles of gravitational force were not mechanical but belonged to the ancient Geek emotional atomistic science, as mentioned above. Whether or not this was a criminally insane reasoning, as claimed by the Church, is of no importance. Isaac Newton most certainly did not advocate a mechanical clockwork-like universe. Therefore, Einstein’s stating that the mechanical heat death law was the premier law of all the sciences, in particular political, economic and medical economic sciences, were based upon false assumptions. Isaac Newton wrote that such a pretentious scientific first principle logic would contaminate scientific philosophy, just as the mathematician, Cantor, discovered when he researched the origins of the concept of the pursuit of happiness.

In advanced quantum biology cancer research Einstein’s energies of mechanical quantum chaos are entangled with another universal energy, known as Shannon-Weiner information energy, which does not flow from hot to cold. The 1937 Nobel Laureate, Szent-Gyorgyi, noted that failure to visualise that consciousness evolved through such an energy entanglement depicted a primitive mindset associated with cancerous growth and development.

The book ‘Phantoms in the Brain’, written by V.S Ramachandran M.D., Ph.D., and Sandra Blakeslee, about how the brain works, was very highly acclaimed by Nobel Laureate, Francis Crick Ph.D.,. Within the book, mention is made of the mental affliction known as anosognosia, about which almost nothing is known. The question is raised as to why this affliction should exist when it seems detrimental to our survival. Anosognosis can be considered to present a model of denial that the mathematician, Georg Cantor, described as existing within the scientific mind, as a blind fear of infinity.

The human survival message contained in ‘Phantoms in the Brain’ is so advanced that it can be considered to readily apply to solving the current extinction obsession inhabiting the modern scientific mind. The funding to carry out this objective will come from a new understanding of first cause cancer research principles and this will be made possible by reuniting the culture of art with the culture of science. That project has been publicly classified by leading quantum biologists in Europe as being the rebirth of the lost original Greek science – the 21st Century Renaissance.

Quantum biology cancer research not only addresses this human survival problem but can be seen to be the foundation upon which an omni human survival technology can be constructed. This technology was clearly alluded to by the champion of American liberty, Ralph Waldo Emerson, during Georg Cantor’s lifetime. Emerson echoed Cantor’s concern that an association of infinite mathematical logic with human evolution was not tolerated within the American scientific mind. His logic argued that infinite Sanskrit mathematics, leading to a truly democratic technological culture, had been forbidden, because industrial mechanical greed had enslaved the minds of the American people to deny its very existence. He blamed this phenomenon upon America having inherited a false mechanical, mathematical worldview from ancient Babylonian culture.

The 1957 the New York University of Science Library published a book entitled ‘Babylonian Myth and Modern Science’ which stated that Einstein had developed his theory of relativity from the intuitive mythological mathematics of ancient Babylon. Unintentionally, Einstein’s great genius was only about the mechanical functioning of the universe, which can now be successfully modified through its entanglement with the information energies of quantum biology. Reference to ancient Mesopotamian cultures leads to a storybook tale of how and why the mental disease of anosognosis led to modern science worshipping the concept of human extinction. The worship of Einstein’s heat death law, sentencing humanity to extinction, was the one that the mathematician, Lord Bertrand Russell, advocated in his most famous essay, ‘A Freeman’s Worship’. Both Russell and Einstein were awarded Nobel Prizes for their mechanistic, entropic worldview theories.

The Pyramid Texts discovered by Gaston Maspero in 1881 were about the advanced sacred geometrical purpose within invisible atoms, depicted by the Egyptian god Atum. The god declared, from the dark abyss of initial chaos ‘Let there be light’, centuries before the Hebrew and Christian religions came into being. Atum decreed that all created life would eventually return back into the original state of chaos, which modern science now accepts as being inevitable.

During the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten the various Egyptian gods were dismissed and the worship of one god, the sun god, Ra, was established. That period was short-lived and Akhenaten’s city, built to honour Ra, quickly fell into ruin. During the reign of Ramses the Great, the Egyptian religion governing political law followed the teachings of the Goddess, Maat, in which humans could become immortal within an infinite universe. The geometrical logic of the infinite Egyptian mathematics was further developed by Greek scholars, such as Thales during the 6th Century BC and Pythagoras in the 5th Century BC. The Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy used the ethical atomic mathematics to invent ethical science in the 3rd Century BC. The Greeks defined gravity as an emotional whirling force acting upon primitive particles in space, to make the worlds spin and generate harmonic knowledge to guide the evolution of ethical, emotional thought.

In 2008, The Times Literary Supplement included ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ by C P Snow in its list of the 100 books that most influenced Western public discourse since the Second World War. It is crucial that we now heed the warning by the molecular biologist, Sir C P Snow, during his 1959 Reid Lecture at Cambridge University, that unless science and art are again reunited, despite modern science’s primitive belief in the universal heat death extinction law, then civilisation will be destroyed.



Source by Robert Pope

06 Jun

Why Is Data Science the NextGen Career Field?

If you intend to become a data scientist or pursue a career in this field, we have the good news for you that you have made a great decision. Data science is the field of next-generation and is going nowhere in the decades ahead. Let’s find out more.

Data science is a broad and diversified field but one reason which is enough to ensure its sustainability is that it solves the problems of a lot of businesses. Apart from that, there are many other factors due to which we are betting on this field to be the career of the next generation. Our article will revolve around a discussion of these factors. So, let’s begin straightaway.

Importance of Data Handling

The quantum of data has multiplied over the years and businesses tend to struggle when it comes to handling this data. They cannot ignore this issue because of their sales, costs, and all major decisions rely on this data.

In the middle of this situation, the role of a data scientist has become even more crucial. A data scientist can provide a solution for data handling and analysis to help businesses take a prudent decision in the light of facts and figures.

Following Compliance & Regulations

Many regulations have been introduced globally that instruct organization to ensure data privacy and efficient data management. So, companies now need a lot of reliable and qualified professionals to take responsibility for data privacy and analytics.

The reason is that customers do not hesitate to share their data nowadays as they know that they can take action in case of the data breach. So, who can make a company compliant and manage data better than a data scientist? Nobody can do this better than these professionals.

An Evolutionary Concept

Here’s a piece of advice for all the readers out there: choose a career that is dynamic and has a scope of evolving. Data science is the field that has numerous opportunities for people to avail of. It has not gone even halfway to its potential yet. So, if you are going to go into this field today, you have already played a masterstroke for a progressive career.

Appealing Job Market

You will find many graduates who have completed their studies from reputable institutes yet they are striving to get a decent job relevant to their field. This is not the case with data science. According to research, 94% of data science graduates immediately get good jobs.

So, with the rising worth of data science, you don’t need to worry about jobs. You would not have to look for a job either. And the story doesn’t end here. Companies pay a handsome amount to data scientists these days and you will be amazed to hear that a data scientist roughly makes $150,000 on average per annum. Hence, this field is not less than a life-changing opportunity.

In short, data science is here to stay and jobs in this field won’t fad anywhere in the near future. Instead, it is bound to find new glories.



Source by Shalini M

03 Jun

How to Increase Education Percentage in India

India is a country which has though adopted the Right to Education Act and has made a mention of this right in Article 21A of the Indian Constitution; even then India has strived to achieve a literacy rate of only 74-75 percent. This figure may seem huge, but the simple criteria to certify a person as literate along with the advancing world is referred; the figure seems to be a small one only.

To determine the literacy rate along with the percent of educated people we need to discuss upon various heads of education in India. Here we will discuss some topics to increase Education Percentage in India.

Primary Education

The opening up of the Anganwadi centers and the Indian government schools at each and every city and village has brought most of the children to school. Moreover, the appropriate governments also provide the students with various perks like free education, meals, books and uniform. This is the level of education where most of the students are enrolled and it is going up.

Secondary Education

This is the level where the drop out from school begins. The reason being, the poor conditions of the family. Not in all States, the education till the secondary level is free. The poor send their sons to work and get their daughters married after they complete their primary education. Scholarship schemes can help benefit this level of education.

Higher Education

This is the level of education where most of the students tend not to opt for. The reason being the high fees. It is very much evident that top class government colleges like IIT, NLU, AIIMS, IIM, NIFT are all high prices and private institutions charge double and more. Due to this reason, most the population which is either poor, or constitutes of the lower middle class doesn’t send their children for higher education. They prefer sending their children for jobs. The Central and the State universities charge less but still the poor household cannot afford the same. In this regard, the various scholarship schemes have played a very important role and so has reservation.

Adult Education

This is one of the trends mostly observed in the rural areas. The reason being, the population is unaware of the perks of being literate. In rural areas, night schools are operated by NGOs where the farmers who are not literate and also, the population who is senior is change are taught free of cost. This type of schooling is becoming popular and is bearing fruitful results.

Gender Literacy

The gender literacy is a big issue for the country to tackle. If we rely on the stats, then we can see that 82 percent of the males are literate as compared to 65 percent of females. A huge gap of 17 percent still lies. Though the 2011 census figures are better than the previous ones. It is only due to the different schemes introduced by the various State Governments with the support of the Central government. Schemes like Cycle Yojana, Uniform, Free meals and most importantly, free education have attracted most of the female students in the nation to schools. The poor parents are now sending their daughters to school.

Education is very much important to survive in the globalized world of today. It is most of the times seen that the poor people are the ones who remain literate and so do their children. This is one of the reasons due to which they are victimized. But, the efforts of the governments at the different levels have helped increase the literacy rate in the recent years and are continuing to do the same.



Source by Ankur Rautela

31 May

Education in Third World

With the daily challenges posed by economic difficulty and other threats, governments in developing countries are working very hard to ensure that their educational institutions continue to provide a standard of education that can make its citizens at part with the educated people in more economically sound countries. To a certain extent, these Third World countries have succeeded in their crusade for quality education. The problem is that a good education comes with a price and it is often a price that many people in Third World countries are not able to pay. So, although quality education is available, it is still unreachable for a large segment of a developing country’s population.

Certainly, it is impressive to see that developing countries have educational institutions that are world-class and which offer education that can rival that provided by wealthier nations around the world. There is a clear recognition of the role that education plays in overcoming hardship and poverty. However elusive it may be, a good education is still viewed as the best way to a better life.

Among the developing countries that have superb educational systems are such “emerging markets” as Mexico, India, Brazil, Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, much of South America and several of the Persian Gulf Arab States.

Obviously, the poorest of the poor in these countries will have a hard time getting into the best schools in their vicinity. Of course, there are always scholarship programs available but these are few. Besides, people at the lowest spectrum of the economic scale are more concerned with more pressing issues related to their mere survival such as where to find food and money for clothing and shelter. After these basic needs are met, that is the only time that parents can really focus on their children’s schooling. In fact, studies indicate that once their basic economic needs are met, the first priority of most poor families is how to send their children to a good school.

India recently launched EDUSAT, an educational program aimed at giving quality education to even its poorest citizens. Among the group’s first initiatives is the development of a $100 laptop which the government hopes to distribute by 2007 to public schools all over the country.



Source by Jonathon Hardcastle