Dear Friends Like Sathish I also have been lurking behind reading with interest most of the mails.I got involved in educational matters while doing my...
Dear Jinan I found your letter of great interest. Yes indeed, conditioning is the heart of the problem. Not the heart of the problem in education, but the...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 1, 2003 10:31 pm
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Dear Clive The reason why I went to live with rural tribal communities is because through what is called education I felt one is being culturally up rooted.Our...
Dear Clive The Educated people all over the world think alike .So living with rural tribal commnities helped me to re look at the world differently and use...
Dear Jinan Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to write so eloquently on your life and views. It is very fascinating to me. My life also was "cut...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 3, 2003 8:06 am
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The site mentioned below may be a useful resource in home-education. Sorry I passed it over when it was originally posted. Clive ... personally - ... my ... to...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 3, 2003 8:19 am
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Dear Clive I did try to answer your question in the second letter I send.Actually both the mails have the same subject.I will try to answer again. Please go...
Dear Jinan, Here are some responses to your last posting: Please go ahead and post my story at the site you mentioned. Thank you for that. I shall send an...
Chris Eilers
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Mar 4, 2003 8:15 am
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I'm sorry, I just sent out this message under the wrong name. Clive ... From: Chris Eilers To: alt-ed-india@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:14...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 4, 2003 8:26 am
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The group may find it of interest. Regards Ashok Vijayavergiya Azim Premji delivers the Third Public Affairs Lecture The Annual Public Affairs Lecture of PAC...
Dear Clive Regarding the adopted child,her name is Anjali ,3 years.My wife is also from the potters community .Her neice used to leave her children with us...
I would like to ask Jinan - and all of you for that matter - what advice you would give Sumesh about his plans to set up a school. Clive ... From: sumesh...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 5, 2003 7:00 am
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CliveDear Jinan, You wrote: "As you probably know, my last 17 years were spent trying to understand the colonizing and conditioning effect of western education...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 9, 2003 4:28 am
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Hi Clive, I agree with you and your concern about the conditioning. I think I also understand what Jinan means. He does not mean that he wants to replace one...
Dear Jinan It is not necessary you have money to start working with children , do they have any when they set out. Also would you like to come to Delhi in...
kamala menon
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Mar 11, 2003 12:26 am
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Hi All, I have heard of Mirambika in New Delhi being a model school for alternative education. I was very keen on knowing more about Mirambika and in an...
I also am interested to learn something of Mirambika. I gather it has a close relationship of some sort with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Can someone clarify this...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 12, 2003 5:30 am
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Dear Clive/Sathish/Kamala I am travelling till 20 th .will respond after i reach home.Kamala I am in delhi till 16th.Do call me on 09847038793 jinan ... the>...
Hello Everyone I wrote some weeks ago about the web-site www.alt-ed-india.org (see below). In the absence of any comments, I have registered the domain...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 15, 2003 10:32 pm
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Hello Clive, Excellent and thanks very much for taking the initiative. Do let me know if there is anything I can pay towards registration or maintenance of...
Hello Sangita, and welcome to the group. I'm afraid I'm of very little help when it comes to curriculum of any sort. Quite simply, I have never followed one....
Clive Elwell
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Mar 18, 2003 7:32 am
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Hello Prasanth Look, I really appreciate that offer. But actually it is not costing me much; a friend is hosting the site for free. Perhaps one day I will have...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 19, 2003 5:15 am
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Hi, Whilst I disagree with Clive, I can qite understand some his aversion to the straightjacket curriculum within which some children find it difficult to ...
You are welcome to disagree with me Geoff. But what is important, I feel, is neither agreement or disagreement, but to enquire into these crucially important...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 20, 2003 8:42 am
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That was nice observation Clive, I am sure everyone would agree that whatever education we have been received have produced mass destruction not only to humans...
Dear Sumesh, I am wondering if you have made contact with any of the people or groups that I mentioned to you. I myself wrote to Yasmin recently, and mentioned...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 24, 2003 9:48 pm
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I find it hard to reply to Jinan's and Satish's comments about rural/tribal people. I have very little experience in this, and perhaps I should not be writing...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 24, 2003 10:03 pm
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So does no one have information on this issue? Clive ... From: Prashanth Visweswaran To: alt-ed-india@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:37 AM ...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 24, 2003 10:08 pm
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CliveHi Jinan You asked me to send my comments about your ideas for a model learning centre. I have delayed doing so, conscious that most likely my words will...
Clive Elwell
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Mar 26, 2003 6:33 am
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The fundemental difference between the western mind set and rural mind set is in the in which intuition and reason is used. Their respective relation or the...