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Tag Archives: education
The role of pay-cheques and checklists in education
Back when I was in highschool in India, I used to wonder about the massive loss of human capital as students with all kinds of backgrounds and interests dropped everything else to focus on getting admitted into a prestigious engineering or … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Policy
Tagged education, Indian education system, inequality, liberal arts education, Loyola School, moralizing, thoughts, Trinity College
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The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers) (via Writing English)
A really funny set of analogies – enjoy! https://plus.google.com/100612175927429294541/posts/c6MWreA6TB6#100612175927429294541/posts/c6MWreA6TB6 UPDATE: Tens of thousands of readers have found this post and hundreds of you have commented. A few have said that these analogies were actually taken from other sources and … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, education, english, fun, humor, language, personal, silly-stuff, thoughts, writing
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