[Assam] Critical Thinking

[Dilip and Dil Deka]

The news item was sent with the email at the bottom of the string.
The attention span in the net appears to be very short. :-)
Anyway the topic was interesting enough for just a day's discussion.

--- On Thu, 8/12/10, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Assam] Critical Thinking
To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" <assam at assamnet.org>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:18 AM


O'Deka:

>isn't the effort by those guys in Guwahati admirable?


*** What effort and by whom? Did you intend to send a link but forgot to, for  some 
internet story/report?

O' M







On Aug 11, 2010, at 10:41 PM, Dilip and Dil Deka wrote:

> All side comments aside, isn't the effort by those guys in Guwahati admirable?
> Shoul we encourage them to keep it up?
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> On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
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>> You know, you always have my support, C'da.
>> 
>> Do you think kharkhowas in phoren also need lessons in some real critical
>> thinking?:-)
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> *** Is the Pope Catholic :-)?
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>> --Ram
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for supporting my thesis that critical thinking could be bad for
>>> desi-children :-).
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>>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> It is encouraging to see that some in Guwahati are realizing the
>>> importance
>>>> of critcal thinking in developing a child's brain. The tradition of rote
>>>>> learning would fade if more of such activities are undertaken.
>>>> 
>>>> I am not sure how child psychologists weigh critical thinking against
>>> rote
>>>> learning, but speaking for myself, rote learning has worked quite well.
>>>> 
>>>> As we grow older, we make more sense of what we 'learned' from rote
>>>> learning. It is then we apply critical thinking. I think both methods are
>>>> good for children. Rote learning, IMHO, allows a child to be familiar
>>> with a
>>>> subject matter, without full comprehension.
>>>> 
>>>> Rote learning for an adult would have disastrous consequences :-)
>>>> 
>>>>> When we read the Tejimola story in our young days, we had many questions
>>>> that we didn't get to ask.
>>>> 
>>>> We too had this story in school. In my case, a child's unbridled
>>> imagination
>>>> took over, as all such stories did - and that was one of the best gifts a
>>>> child could ask.
>>>> 
>>>> --Ram
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Dilip and Dil Deka <
>>> dilipdeka at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> It is encouraging to see that some in Guwahati are realizing the
>>> importance
>>>>> of critcal thinking in developing a child's brain. The tradition of rote
>>>>> learning would fade if more of such activities are undertaken.
>>>>> When we read the Tejimola story in our young days, we had many questions
>>>>> that we didn't get to ask. The name Tejimola itself intrigued me - why
>>> no
>>>>> other girl was ever named Tejimola, where did the name come from.
>>>>> Dilip Deka
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