Rakesh Kumar

  Synopsis : Positioning states, society, and schools as service providers, China’s new education reform makes parents solely accountable for their children’s success in education; whereas in India’s New Education Policy 2020, accountability question hasn’t been addressed, parents have merely been coopted; states, schools, and tuition companies continue to play lion’s role with little accountability. China has passed a new education reform law recently making parents responsible for family education; while state, schools, and society are to provide guidance, support, and service for the family education; consequently, parents are responsible for balanced development of children: education, physical exercise, rest, and recreation; making sure they’re not addicted to internet and are not overburdened with academic exercises. Even before these reforms, China’s school education has been world’s envy for quite some time; in 2018, for 15-year-old students, their PISA scores in ma...

If infinity were to be an insanely large number, it wouldn’t be infinity, it would be precisely that number. In fact, infinity isn’t a very large number but is a promise to be larger than the largest number; if the largest number is 9, infinity is 10; if it is one Googol, infinity is one Googol and one. In short, infinity is a very competitive minded concept, has no fixed value, guaranteed to be larger than the largest, always remaining beyond-reach. The truth is: infinity is not a number at all but is a statement of fact that there is no greatest number.  Class 1 arithmetic explains the process of infinity: if you add 1 to a given number, you get its successor number, and the successor number is greater than the predecessor number. For instance, to get the successor number of 9, add 1 to it; viz, 9+1=10 and 10 is greater than 9. This very process ensures infinity: to get a number larger than an insanely large number: just add 1 to it, the resultant sum will be a greater number. Th...