Moonballs from Planet Earth

"Why don't we teach our children compassion?".  Roshi Joan Halifax asked this question in the TED talk I posted about l...

The Rafael Nadal Foundation just opened a primary school in India, in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. I am especially delighted because Rafa’s na...

I visited the Iona School yesterday for their Advent Fayre. Some good friends' children attend this excellent school. It was a very nic...

कर्मण्ये  वाधिकारस्ते  मा  फलेषु  कदाचन मा  कर्मफलहेतुर  भूर  मा  ते संगोस्त्व  अकर्मणि These words from the Bhagavad Gita were first s...

A point worth making when it is obvious, because it will be quickly forgotten. Cricket schools, and more generally, cricket systems, don...

My friends and family in India are in a state of perpetual despair about our education system. The system does not even attempt to develop c...

Watched and enjoyed the Mani Ratnam film Yuva recently. This got me thinking about social change, revolution, terror and education...a trai...

Michael Medved on the value of an education: That piece of parchment from New Haven or Cambridge does indicate that you've competed wit...

...use radio. If you want to suppress a revolution use TV. Radio forces people to focus, and listen to your words, and engage their imagina...

"My classmates from Cambridge believed the sky was their limit. And they were willing to work their tails off to reach that limit. My c...

Should reference books be in libraries? Or should they be lying around on desk tops and cabinets, within casual stretching distance of wher...