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/PRNewswire/ After a year delay due to COVID-19, the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Class of 2020 returned to campus for an in-person ceremony where they.
The world as the classroom
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May 22, 2021 15:11 IST
As the learning landscape in India evolves, we must keep in mind that our goal is to prepare students for life and its challenges
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As the learning landscape in India evolves, we must keep in mind that our goal is to prepare students for life and its challenges
In my 20s, I remember thinking and hearing from my peers about how we would utilise our learnings from the university in real life. Or rather, are we learning things that can be used in the real world? Fast forward to today, and the thought process does not seem to have changed much. But the world has.
What is the point of education? This is the question one Oxford University student found himself asking in his recently self-published book. JP Ay is a 22-year-old Oxford University student at St Hilda’s College. He is in his fourth year of an integrated master’s degree in biochemistry and, until he turned 18, he went to a private boys school in London. Despite benefitting from a private education, Mr Ay now says there are life skills to be learned beyond an academia to prepare people for the real world . This year he wrote and published a book titled ‘What’s the Point of School: How the Current Education System is Failing to Prepare Students for the Real World’.