Sampling from Learning and Life
- Why Education
- Testing and Grading
- Curriculum
- Learning of Languages, History, Maths, IT
- At What Cost!
- Myths of Education
- Counseling
- Leadership
- Excellence
- Life
Why Education
Why Education and Why Higher Education: Leadership in Life and Society.
Can Grades and Degrees Measure the Success of Students?
Education as Tazkia: Is a child like a clean slate?
Who is educated! – Iqbal’s View
Of Hanafi School of Marketing, Orientation of New Students and Dr Matin A Khan of IBA
Education’s Relevance to Social Impact: Why do our graduates want to leave the country?
Testing and Grading
Testing/Grading vs Motivation: A Variation on Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle for Academics.
Bell Curve Evaluation of Students and Islamic Conception
Can Grades and Degrees Measure the Success of Students?
Fairness in Grading: A Lesson by the Great Dijkstra
Problems with Bloom’s Taxonomy: Impact on Curriculum and Motivation of Students
Curriculum
Syllabus- Coverage is Enemy of Understanding
How Our Curriculum Design (from Simple to Complex) Insults the Intelligence of a Child
Subject Compartmentalization vs Holistic Learning: How to align with natural process of learning of a child
Curriculum’s Relevance to Social Impact: Why do our graduates want to leave the country?
How to Create Impact on Society: A Case Study of Experiential Learning Intervention in a Course on Social Advocacy
Learning of Languages, History, Maths, IT
Why Project Based Learning? An Experiential Learning Case Study of Language Teaching
How Language Acquisition is Made Difficult for Children: Eight Lessons from an Urdu Acquisition Case Study
Most Effective Way of Cutting a Nation from its History – Imposing a Foreign Language
How Maths is made difficult
Georgia – Lesson in Preserving Language, Religion and Culture
Lesser known dimensions of US Universities – Archives of history and literature
How West Teaches History to its People and How We have Forgotten: A Nation that has No History, has no Future!
Computer Revolution and Moore’s Law: A Personal Journey
Big Data, Management Transformation and Voyager of Star Trek MovieChanging Role of CIO
Why are there no IT companies with more than 10,000 employees
At What Cost!
Mr Fazle Hasan taught us Financial Management in 1986 at IBA. During each class session, the discussion would invariably turn towards his oft repeated dictum “At What Cost”. This was the major theme of his course. He wanted us to take stock of the long term costs of our decisions. We should estimate and recognize the costs of the faulty political decisions that have led us to this sorry state. Here I would like to put together the thoughts that require computation of economic costs through formal academic rigor.
Small is Beautiful: Why Small Businesses should Replace Big Businesses (A Case Study of Rickshaws vs Buses)
Encounter Project 2: Propagating Islam as an Inflexible, Rigid, Harsh System
How West Teaches History to its People and How We have Forgotten: A Nation that has No History, has no Future !
Capitalist Transactions Replacing Traditions and Values from Istanbul to Makkah
Plight of Sugarcane Growers: The Economic Costs of Regulatory Barriers for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
Whither Writ of the State? Costs of Corruption and Nepotism in Today’s Rangeela Shahi Daur
At What Cost! Fazle Hasan of IBA and our Computation of Economic Costs
Myths of Education
Myth: We are Backward because we Lag Behind in Science and Technology.
Why PhD is Difficult to Complete and Why there are so many ABDs and PhD Dropouts
What does it Mean to Have a PhD: Myths of Specialization and Departmental Expertise
Myths of Schooling and Education: Resources
Myth: Impact Factor Measures Real Impact
Who is educated! – Iqbal’s View
Myth: Mushroomings of HEIs in Pakistan
Myths of Higher Education in Pakistan
Counseling
Selecting whom to consult: Psychiatrist, Neurologist, Psychologist, Educationist, “Aamil” (Exorcist), “Pir” or “Shaikh”
Overprotected Kids: Need for Risk Taking and Self Discovery
Why My Child does not Sit and Concentrate
Are you really concerned about your child’s education
Selecting whom to consult: Psychiatrist, Neurologist, Psychologist, Educationist, “Aamil” (Exorcist), “Pir” or “Shaikh”
Truth about Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD): Reasons and Revelations
Secret of Happiness: One Simple Rule
How Parental Judgments can Shatter a Child: Self Fulfilled Prophecies
Which Field with Great Scope Should My Child Choose: There is always a room at the top
Learning Problems: Top 9 Questions to Answer Before You Run for Help Why Job Security?
Leadership
Why this current urgency about visions and entrepreneurship
Four Legacies of a Leader: Which one would you leave behind?
Entrepreneurial Leadership for 21st Century
Mocking Craftsmen and Business People
Excellence
Pursuit of Excellence vs Guzara: How to teach excellence through everyday examples
Beauty is Our Business – Mathematics, Excellence and the Great Dijkstra
A Formula is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Dijkstra vs Buzan’s Mind-Maps
Life
Computer Revolution and Moore’s Law: A Personal Journey
Hajj kay Saathi: Dekh mera Zauq o Shauq (Passion)
Georgia – Lesson in Preserving Language, Religion and Culture
Of Achars, Chutneys and Halwas: A Lifestyle Getting Lost Through Branding and Mass Production
Secret of Happiness: One Simple Rule
Of Jungles, Streams, Berries and Wild Pink Flowers: Costs of Commercialization of Islamabad
How to find “Buzurg” and “Wali” of AllahHow to Sprinkle Happiness Around You: Javed Bhai (Dr Zaeem Jafri) – A Jolly Good Fellow
Ansari Sb: Khawjgan e Chisht Ahle Bahisht
Rauf Mamoo – How to Make People Feel Special and Close
Sad Ending of Abdullah Yousuf Ali – the Translator of Quran