गुरूर ब्रह्म गुरूर विष्णु, गुरूर देवो महेश्वरा,
गुरूर साक्षात परम् ब्रह्म्, तस्मयी श्री गुरुवे नमः ।।
I went to this talk on 2009-02-11, and I really liked the talk. He mentioned many thought-provoking things, and I really enjoyed the lecture.
By high school, the deck is already loaded against the science teacher, and it is very hard to change students after that.
There are some important qualities that teacher should inculcate.
Start simple. For example, “what evolves”? Don’t talk about science, but rather about culture: what evolves in the culture.
The teacher’s answers (to students’ questions) must be
If you show that they are ignorant or stupid or both, you will lose them. Don’t hurt them. Rather, amaze them with your enthusiasm for the subject.
Teachers need to be better trained
Public and lawmakers need to be educated too.
It is important to realize that science starts with “being curious” and making an observation. (Versus walking in the park with electronic gadgets.) What creationists do to students is to destroy inquisitiveness and curiosity.
If you can inculcate just one quality in your students, let it be CURIOSITY. This makes things interesting, and this applies to teaching at any level. It isn’t faith that makes good science, it is curiosity.
Sometimes, faith dictates so many aspects such that it hampers curiosity (for sure about certain things and objects).
There are a few websites that talk about teaching science. NESC and Talk Origins are just a few.
Teaching advice: Know your stuff VERY WELL. This is very very important. One needs to know things well before one can start defending.
There was this thought that came to mind: Take kids to the nature just for observations. And give them less assignments. This way, they will become more curious. Museums are great for this purpose. Take them to many museums too.
Lukas said that I keep talking about “believing in what empowers me”, everything else being constant. On the same note, everything else remaining the same, it is much more powerful to be curious than having faith.
He suggested that we read Darwin’s diary.
Question: How to deal with competition versus collaboration in a classroom setting.
The question of belief versus evidence.
One of the panelist said that scientist are supposed to dispassionate about interpreting data, not necessarily in their curiosity or passion for figuring things out, or ever in what they choose to look at.
That remembers me of Yee Jiun’s comment in 2005 (I think): “You are a scientist—make distinction between your beliefs and proofs!”
I realized during this panel discussion that I talk a lot about scientific method and all that, but don’t use much of the same. Very passionate about some things… which seems to cloud my understanding.
I asked a question: There are many things that get crystallized by the age of 12. Then how do you deal with religion, and what do you mean when you say “science and religion can coexists”? Does religion (as envisioned by orthodoxes) has any place in childhood? Religion is not just a compartment of life, it is a whole way of living and thinking. Also, how does one deal with the interaction of kids with these kinds of religious people, who might be in your church, and your kid might be taught to listen to them without much of thought.
David gave an example by picking a Christian devout person, and asking if he gave conclusive evidence that ____ never existed… what will be your reaction?
This lady answered (and I really liked the answer): I will be disappointed, but my faith will be unshaken.
And David pointed out that this is the difference between two ways of thinking.
Justin (elementary school teacher) also agreed that by the age of 10-11, the curiosity is already kicked out from many of his school kids.
Pose a question, and just follow the process naturally.
This is one wonderful way to develop curiosity in kids.
Justin mentioned that one of the problem is that many teachers themselves have never done scientific inquiry.
I thought about my Gymnastic teacher Laurie. She is such a wonderful teacher. She could take kids from various expertise level, and take them together, and teach all of them something. That is a great example of “teaching various skill level simultaneously”.
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This sloka from Gita is very powerful. I learnt it from Ankush.
सर्वधर्मांपरित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।
अहं त्वा सर्वपापेभयो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः ।१८:६६।
तू हिंदू बनेगा ना मुसलमान बनेगा,
इंसान कि औलाद है इंसान बनेगा ।
अच्छा है अभी तक तेरा कुछ नाम नहीं है
तुझको किसी मज़हब से कोई काम नहीं है
1. जैसे सूरज की गर्मी से जलते हुऐ तन को
2. मिल जाए तरुवर की छाया… 1, 2
3. ऐसा ही सुख मेरे मन को मिला है मैं
4. जब से शरञ तेरी आया… मेरे राम… 1, 2
5. भटका हुआ मेरा मन था कोई,
6. मिल ना रहा था सहारा… 5, 6
7. लहरों से लङती हुई नाव को जैसे… 7
8. मिल ना रहा हो किनारा… 8
9. इस लडखडाती हुई नाव को जो
10. किसी ने किनारा दिखाया… 3, 4, 1, 2
11. शीतल बनी आज चंदन के जैसी,
12. राघव कृपा हो जो तेरी,… 12
13. उजियाली पूनम की हो जाऐं रातें
14. जो थी अमावस अंधेरी,… 13, 14, 14
15. युग युग से प्यासी मरुभूमी ने जैसे
16. सावन का संदेश पाया… 3, 4, 1, 2
17. जिस राह की मंजिल तेरा मिलन हो
18. उस पर कदम मैं बढाऊं… 17, 18
19. फूलों में खारों में पतछङ बहारों में
20. मैं ना कभी डगमगाऊँ… 19, 20, 20
21. पानी के प्यासे को तकदीर नें जैसे
22. जी भर के अमृत पिलाया… 21, 22, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2.
1. तू प्यार का सागर है, 1
2. तेरी एक बून्द के प्यासे हम… 2
3. लौटा जो दिया तूने, 3
4. चले जाएंगे जहां से हम… 4, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1
5. घायल मन का पागल पंछी
6. उङने को बेकरार… 6
7. पंख हैं कोमल आँख हैं धुंधली
8. जाना है सागर पार 8
9. अब तू ही इसे समझा 9
10. राह भूले थे कहाँ से हम… 10, 1, 2, 2, 1
11. इधर झूमके गाए जिंदगी
12. उधर है मौत खडी 12
13. कोइ क्या जाने कहाँ है सीमा
14. उलझन आन पडी 14
15. कानों में जरा कह दे 15
16. के आए कौन दिशा से हम… 16, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1…
In this article, I want to make a list of people from Navodaya whose time at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Kareera overlapped with my time there (I was there from July 1993 to March 1999). I really enjoyed my time there, and would like to get in touch with as many people as I can. In the process, I would like to get people in touch with each other too.
What I would like to keep track of people’s location right now, where have they been after coming out of the lovely JNVK, where did they go to college, what else they did, what is their contact info, what is their email id, phone number, postal address, and so on. Only sky if the limit for what information could go in here. I will need to figure out how will people react to this, and if somebody does not want their information to be put up on a website, but we will worry about these issues later 
Some questions:
How can you help?
Acknowledgements: This information was compiled with the help of Sheesh Ram, Pritam Yadav, and a lot of help from Sunil. Thnaks a lot for putting your time in to this.
From Kanina
Nehru House
From Kareera
Email: pritamyadav05 at yahoo.com
Current Job: ?
Got married: July 08, 2008
From Chamdheda
Bhola, from Manoj’s village.
Married
From Himmat Singh Village, what is the village by the way?
Dancer?
From Ghadi Bolni
Vinod urf Mungfalli’s sister
(Seth Ji)
Mungfali
Email: YogeshwerSharma at gmail dot com
Current Job: Doing PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA.
(a short girl)
From Lukhi village
Went to many clusters and regional games and a great runner
From Nangal Sirohi
Email: sheeshram.yadav at yesbank dot in
Current Job: In Yes Bank, Gurgaon
Took TC in 7 th classs
Very short guy
Ashoka house
From Ashoka house
(from Kareera)
From Talwani?
(from Jhagdoli)
(from Jhagdoli)
From Mohan Pur
I heard he got married, is that right?
Working in Pune
Working in Pune
Working in Pune
From Rasoolpur.
svn update
This commands lets you update the current copy from the repository.
Some other useful commands are
svn status
svn status –verbose
svn status –show-updates –verbose
svn checkout svn+ssh://lion/home/yogi/svn/research #check out a copy
svn ls -R svn+ssh://lion/home/yogi/svn/research # list content of the repository
svn commit button.c -m “Fixed a type”
svn revert # for reverting to some older version
svn resolved # after taking care of conflicts, it does not commit the changes to the server…
svn export # like svn checkout but without .svn directories
svn cleanup # this is to be run if svn is holding some locks unnecessarily.
svn log # display history of changes to the files
svn diff
svn cat
svn list
I browse through wordpress themes often, and then forget about them. This time, I am writing which ones I found useful. The criterion I am using are as following.
Here are some that I find useful.
Isn’t that a coincidence that most of the color themes that I happend to like fall towards the end of the alphabet.
I came to Helsinki on Sunday evening. My trip here was tiring, but good nonetheless. I will delve into why it was so in a later post (if it ever comes). Suffices to say that it had something to do with kids
Anyway, after collecting my luggage, I saw that…
Anyway, I started writing this while I was in Helsinki, but I am back to the bay area now, and I don’t feel like writing this right now. At some point in the future, I will complete this article, as well as upload some picture
