4th Dimension

Across the academics there are two kinds of people, those who want to learn and those who don’t want to learn (dropouts), they dropout because of several reasons and main reason is the system is not developed according to their interests or they don’t enjoy formal education. It’s not that state is not spending money, our governments are spending lots of resources to improve education system but the problem is that it is going in wrong direction. I want to share my views came from “bad” experiences of this academic year at Central University of Gujarat.  Wisely, I want blame none but the system who didn’t allowed me to have proper (expected) learning in given period of time. For me, human by nature are diverse,  curiosity  and creative. Our education system is hindering our learning by distorting this basic nature of being human. No children of same parents are similar, how can our educators assume that whole batch is common for them? Education system of today is n...

It seems to be routine to me when publishers rejects my articles for one or other reason.   But what made to think for this post is the comment of one reviewer that I should improve my grammar and academic writing skills. This was an important comment for me, not because it gave me scope for improvements but because it was forcing me adhere the rules set by so called grammar laureates (especially when the article was talking about non adherence of rules and norms in society !!!!). Grammar of any lingual system is a set of rules which is developed to synchronize system for producing and communication meanings. Our obsession with grammar is so increased that we are getting away from own thoughts and feelings while writing. Let me simplify this further. There is thin line difference between language and speech. While speaking we need not be conscious of about “rules of language” (grammar) but while writing we are “taught” to confirm these “rules”. This creates problem in e...