Nepal, Feb. 28 -- Children's days are structured around the various skills adults feel they should learn. As students they attend school for most of the day. The rest of their day children spend in some extra classes that parents feel help build skills children need. These are formative years and learning is key. So we have built education systems around effective ways for children to learn. But how effective are our ways of teaching if they do not take into consideration how children learn naturally? Is it really logical that adults teach children how to learn rather that teach in ways that match how children's minds work?
In her experience as an educationist, Mridula Saria sees this contradiction clearly. She feels that if we teach in wa...