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M Nadeem NadirThe Express Tribune |
The volume of my expectations of you being my didact is proportionately enormous. Resuming from where I left off. My ninth expectation is that you...
The relationship between a teacher and his students, which in the past was one of respect and care, has undergone a visible change, dominantly a...
In the workplace politics (WP) in educational institutions, nexus currency always demonetises the currency of performance. Power groups emerge through...
I went to a departmental store the other day to buy some moisturisers for wintery dry days. I asked the salesboy whether they are offering any...
Ideally, educational institutions are considered saintly spaces invested with the social and national responsibilities of administering learning,...
Mistakenly, a curfewed school is regarded as the best educational institution that churns out "disciplined" students. A principal who comports himself...
While schools are considered the intellectual, educational and civilisational nurseries - being a prerequisite for furthering the journey of human...
Donald Trump's kidnapping of Venezuela's president, a la Tamil movie, adds exponentially to the uncertainty of world politics. The precedent will...
As students are enjoying the respite of winter vacation — this time a long one of over twenty days in Punjab - they express weariness that there...
A friend shared with me his daughter's result card for the ninth class issued by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education. Even a cursory...
By using the faculty of reasoning, man tries and understand the phenomena around him. The serendipitous understanding is, however, wholly subjective...
Reading the Sui Northern Gas Company's schedule of piped gas supply for domestic users from December to February in three time slots — 5.30 am to...
"Get him admitted to a government school" is the remark parents of neurodivergent children hear from teachers and management of private schools,...
Instead of beefing about teachers' anaemic dedication to the profession of teaching, let's first see whether they are provided a friendly and...
Creativity owes to moments that bestow upon us space to recall, think and feel the pain or joy of the vicissitudes of life. But in this age, when we...
Pamaal, a drama serial drawing huge audiences these days with Saba Qamar, as Malika, in the female lead, seems to be the story of every household. The...
A considerable portion of reported and unreported misconduct perpetrated at the school level is related to the restroom area. Some issues, however, go...
Gone are the days when table etiquette was a hot topic at the dining table. However, these days, a major chunk of our casual conversations inevitably...
The views expressed in my last article attracted a healthy difference of opinion, particularly from those who wield influence or profit from their...
Sometimes, exploitative tactics in a profession remain present like a big elephant in the room until someone like director Mehreen Jabbar and actor...
In an entropic world, when chaos and uncertainty are all around, people lacking a coping mentality gravitate towards overthinking – a state between...
Among the misuses of technology, one is its use for publicity stunts and self-advertising gimmicks. People who are the anthropomorphic expressions of...
On every World News Day (September 28), amid the loud calls to celebrate journalism, the death knell tolls even louder for the print format of...
Money matters whether you matter or not. Its manipulative powers matter the most, particularly when it is not your sweat-stained money. The...
Some high-achieving students suddenly began arriving late to school. They were warned, fined, and reported to parents. Nonetheless, their newly...
Very rarely do we have waste problems; we have creative thinking problems.Kathryn Kellogg The policy of zero waste simply means that human...
Rafta rafta wo meri hasti ka sama'n ho gaye Pehle jaa'n, phhir jan-e jaa'n, phhir jaan-e jaana'n ho gye You must be humming this song the moment you...
Indiscriminate employment of power and force, aslosh with egoism, vendetta or propaganda, fails to attain anything constructive. Power and force play...
It's a common observation of teachers that often, when a teacher asks a student to repeat what he has taught the class, the student stands blacked...
Life often reveals its profound spiritual truths in the most ordinary moments. One day, I was at a stationery shop waiting for the shopkeeper's...
Matrimonial relationships have never been more fragile despite being morally bound and legally secured. The two parties in the relationship, sometimes...
It always feels so good to listen to students' questions during an informal discussion. In such an environment, I have found students speaking their...
The tragic deaths of two showbiz celebrities, Ayesha Khan and Humaira Asghar, gone unnoticed for days in one case and months in the other, have...
As Gregor Samsa — taking liberties with the character of Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis — awoke one morning, the morning for him wasn't...
We are living in a world of ill-founded generalisations. Generalisations are our judgemental, aphoristic and summarised assessments of people or...
Out of the troika – parents, teachers and students – of the education of a child, I have already written on the roles and rights of parents and...
The first synonymous idea of school that comes to mind is a place of strict discipline. All the moral policing at the early stages of the growth of a...
Consequentialism is defined as "the ethical study of morals, duties and rights with an approach that focuses consequences of a particular action or...
It is heartening that a positive shift from quantity to quality is observed in our educational institutions. Some schools have started allocating...
To mention love side by side with war in the maxim, "everything is fair in love and war", sounds oxymoronically antithetical. My extrapolation of the...
The UN is crippled systemically through the systematic use in the Security Council of the veto powers resting with the five economic powers of the...
The question might sound naive to bellicists, yet it is pertinent in this age of admirable human development and scientific advancements around the...
Making efforts to achieve quantified targets is the zeitgeist of today's world. Our obsession with metrics, targets and standardised indicators...
The people who haggle for each penny with shopkeepers in an open marketplace exhibit a sophisticated behavioural and attitudinal change when they...
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