Nepali Education System Teaches Students to NOT Think

Post published:September 23, 2020
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting

Math education in Nepal is limited to committing to memory formulae after formulae and, using them, how to solve problems that have been attempted over and over again using rules and steps also committed to memory. Little to nothing about WHERE the formula came from, WHY they work, and HOW they reflect something in or about life and the real world is taught. But all that can be taught and therefore how to think. For the details of HOW to do that, read on!

The Price

Post published:January 29, 2019
Post category:My Personal Stories

In Nepal, you pay a price if you, as someone Nepali society considers to not be sufficiently meritorious, comment on the issues the society suffers from or holds up a mirror.

Old Habits Die Hard…in Nepali Public Schools

Post published:April 23, 2018
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting

In most government (public) schools in Nepal, children are taught to memorize and regurgitate materials from a really early age, like second grade. One of the ways the children do that is by reading aloud, a practice that harks back all the way to the days of Aryan-Sanskritic education system prevalent in the Indian Subcontinent long before the modern system of education was introduced. Here's an example.

Raise the Child, NOT the Rod

Post published:August 22, 2016
Post category:My Personal Stories Nepal Education & Parenting

Corporal punishments rarely impart any meaningful lesson, and yet, in Nepal, it's defended as part of our "culture." My classmates and I suffered from it too and as far as I can tell, they didn't do much good for us!

What's more, it is possible to educate and raise children without punishing them physically.

Kantipur FM Commentary: SLC — An Exercise in Futility and Unreliability

Post published:July 21, 2016
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting

In the March 29, 1998 episode of the Kantipur FM, Marlboro Music Network radio show, I talk about the peculiarities of SLC by comparing my class' end-of-year examination results to that of SLC to show why it is an exercise in futility and unreliability.

Reforms in SLC after 81 years: Failing subjects you don’t like makes no difference

Post published:December 26, 2014
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting

Office of the Controller of Examination introduces changes to SLC examination after 81 years! Letter-grade descriptors to replace numerical-score grades and failure in a subject to not hold back a student from continuing their post-secondary education.