DR. AMRITA VOHRA

Education must foster rather than curb this spontaneity, the unflinching innate childhood spirit of exploration and incessant learning. The way a child learns to walk, the way a child acquires language before they set foot in any school / even pre-school, is the way ‘real learning’ (John Holt) happens. At GEMS Education, we firmly believe in fostering learning through this very ‘spontaneity,’ this purest expression of ‘humanity’ continues to sparkle childhood years as we prepare children for life. The world around us is changing. It’s turning increasingly volatile. We live in a continuous state of flux and uncertainty. Our world is becoming increasingly complex with greater levels of ambiguity amidst changing paradigms. None of us can compete with Google in terms of information. Gone are the days when knowing and memorising were highly valuable human skills. Today, we live in an era of Information overload. While everything is available at the click of a button, what’s not available is the sanctity / objectivity of all information. What we urgently need is the ability of critically evaluate and make logical sense of all the information around us. What we urgently need is the ability to comprehend bias and weed it out to get to objective facts from within a flood of biased jingoism. What we urgently need is the ability to think beyond the obvious, to think better than Artificial Intelligence can. Yes, we are competing with it! Would anything that can