Archive for the 'School Org. & Methods' Category

Need of Statistics in Education

Statistics is a science dealing with numerical facts, collected systematically with a definite aim or purpose of interpretation and study. It is a branch of mathematics which evaluates numeric data. Talking in numbers always carries conviction. Telling the child’s mental age (MA) or calculating his IQ is a modern device and with the help of […]

Developing Reading Habits

It has been long since I posted on this blog. In between, there have been lots of activities on my professional front though all of them been just local in nature. I was also going through an introspection about the direction of my education blog  - whether to make it student oriented or teacher oriented. […]

Learning a Second Language Through Practice

Language skills, like any other skills, can be acquired only through practice. In the case of the mother tongue, the child gets sufficient scope for this practice in his daily environment. He uses the language at home, in the playground, at school - everywhere. And he has so many teachers: his parents, other members of […]

Correlation In The Teaching of Various Subjects

“No subject is ever well understood and no art is intelligently practiced, if the light which the other studies are able to throw upon it is deliberately shut out.” Education is a co-ordinated process. Teaching of various subjects is hence correlated. Herbert first conceived the idea of correlating the teaching of various subjects. Later on […]