Needed Urgently: An Education Revolution

Needed Urgently: An Education Revolution

"The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009+ test, which Indian students from Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu took, are an indication of the abysmal state of our education system."

If India is to be counted as a developed nation, it will have to undergo, at first, an education revolution.

-The Times of India, February 4, 2012 

Teachers have to balance demands from various quarters: Howard Gardner

"‘Parents should avoid positive and negative narcissism. The challenge is to watch your children very carefully, see what interests them, and find ways to help them.'"

After challenging certain conventional notions of education with his ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligences', renowned developmental psychologist Howard Gardner, Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been involved in areas such as design of performance-based assessments, education for understanding and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education over the past two decades.

In this interview he speaks on some current trends and contemporary challenges in the sphere of education The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Teachers have to balance demands from various quarters: Howard Gardner.

Prof. Gardner says the best educational systems in the world are the ones that make heroic efforts to provide a quality education for every child.