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Education beyond the classroom How often do we undermine the effect of all the activities that take place outside the realm of our own classroom. Sure, it can sometimes be very misleading and depart you in the wrong direction if there is not a good company or a cause. But the point about education is exactly that you learn it from books and it transcends to most realms that aren’t academic in nature. The point and basic foundation of education has always been to manufacture individual for the greater good of society, however it contradicts the point itself when the point of being academics is only limited to the classroom. The optimum use of a classroom education is when you prosper outside it’s realms. If we take examples of disciplines that transcend this experience are that can range from going out with your friends or doing internships. If in the instance you are with your friends and do not wear seatbelts on a road trip, it is indeed a gross failure of our education sys...

To a perpetual Wet Behind the ears Indian Student Perfection isn’t a starting line, it isn’t a finishing line either. But what’s in the middle of the starting and finishing line is well, perfection. Unattainable as it is by our weak grasp; our reach is a deep dive into the privilege of excellence and hard work.  Revolutions are messy. Revolutions are unstable. Revolutions are unsustainable. And as noble or passionate the idea of revolution may seem, our education system will not survive on a revolution. What we need is evolution. Slow, gradual but powerful and sustainable. The flaws in our education system sit like knots, and if there is a resolution it is to untie these knots one by one. So what exactly can a student do? How can he, the most integral and central part of the education system take actions for the situation to change. It begins with taking responsibility away from the education system. The responsibility of shaping the future of it’s student, your fis...

OF CAPITALS AND PREMIER EDUCATION The good thing about dreams is that they can be born to anyone. Aspirations, hopes and desires are a common companion to dreams and India is a nation that dreams. It dreams a lot indeed. The boisterous diversity of our nation is reflective in every corner of our country and especially in the metropolitan cities. Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai among others are the cities of dreams; the whole of india in a way gravitates towards these cities for a better life, to struggle and work hard for their dream and a large fraction of these dreamers are students. The capital city of Delhi has much to bustle about. There is something about Delhi that cannot be contained in a definition, one has to experience it all together. It is civil and dirty at the same time, it is noble and it is indifferent too. Students of our great nation who reside outside the ‘it’ cities grow up with hopes and dreams in their eyes. The dream? Delhi. Over the recent years Delh...