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Why homework?

Why homework?

A child teaches herself with the help of her own experience and exploration.

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Zubeida Mustafa

Need to connect

Need to connect

What we see today is the result of the indoctrination of the last 45 years.

24.01.2025 80

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Testing exams

Foreign exams are splitting us into two classes.

10.01.2025 100

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Batch of ’79

ONE plus one equals two. But in extraordinary situations, one plus one can produce infinite results. That is how it is with the Batch of 1979 of...

27.12.2024 7

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All work, no play

ACCORDING to the UNDP, nearly 29 per cent of Pakistan’s population is between 15 and 29 years of age. This constitutes the youth bulge. It is to be...

13.12.2024 4

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Clean-up needed

A POPULAR saying I have been hearing since childhood is: “Safaai nisf iman hai” (cleanliness is half the faith). Today, the ‘Queen of the East’, as...

29.11.2024 4

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Bonding values

TIME flies, and we fail to realise that someone who had departed has been gone for over a year. Then an event shakes us out of our reverie to...

15.11.2024 3

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Language tyranny

SINCE an education emergency was declared in Pakistan — for the second time — education has entered the public discourse with a bang. Seminars are...

01.11.2024 5

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Teenage blues

THE teenage years are not a trouble-free phase in a young person’s life. The transition to adulthood poses many challenges, mainly due to...

18.10.2024 3

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Act of conscience

“If the pain has often been unbearable and the revelations shocking to all of us, it is because they indeed bring us the beginnings of a common...

04.10.2024 9

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Father of man

AUG 31 was Dr Maria Montessori’s birthday. The Pakistan Montessori Association had planned to honour its icons that day, starting with its...

20.09.2024 3

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Sorry syndrome

THE present is so gripping for us that we prefer to put our past on the back burner. But what happened in East Pakistan in 1970-71 remains fresh in...

06.09.2024 10

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Babies galore

OURS is a society where parents start planning their daughter’s marriage soon after she is born. Here the social compulsion for couples to prove...

23.08.2024 4

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Story of a hari

PAKISTAN: A Hard Country, by Anatole Lieven, was published in 2011. Thirteen years later, Pakistan is a ‘harder’ country still. But not everyone...

09.08.2024 30

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An unsafe country

HOW safe a place is Pakistan for young women? According to the human rights ministry, in the last three years, 63,000 cases of violence against...

26.07.2024 30

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