The Future of Education

"In designing a structured recess, they (schools) will sacrifice the notion of recess as an unstructured but supervised break that belongs to the child; that is, a time for the child to make a personal choice between sedentary, physical, creative, or social options." (AAP) I remember my time at school. We used to start at 8 o'clock sharp and end our day at half past 2 in the afternoon. During these six and half hours, we used to have 8 periods and 2 recesses.  First recess used to be just 15 minutes, after we 3 long periods, to eat quick snacks. Students used to bring packed lunches from home or were given lunch money so that they could buy samosas, chicken burgers, rolls, biscuits, chips and drinks from a small tuck shop located inside the premises of the school. Then it used to be back to academics, lectures, assignments. After two more periods of equal length, we would get another recess, this time full 30 minutes. Those 30 minutes were what we used to go to school ...

Over the years working as in the field of Marketing, I have given numerous job interviews to potential employers. Once I progressed in my career, I also got the opportunity to take many interviews of potential candidates for my own team. The process was always intensive, details oriented and thought out. The corporation wants to make sure they are investing in the right person, who has the right qualifications to do the job and at the same time is the right fit to the corporate culture, their ideology and vision.  At the same time, the employee wants to know whether the said corporation is the right fit for their career goals and their own vision and mission in life. They conduct their own research, check out the company's website, ask around, interview some of the present as well as ex-employees, but most importantly they want to know about who will they be working for, the reputation and credentials of the team and the supervisors are the most important and top priority, since...