Alan Bryce, Saanich International Student Program, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [ http://www.sisp.sd63.bc.ca/ ] in discussion with Fr Jude Fernandes SJ, Principal, St Stanislaus High School [ http://www.stanislausbandra.in/ ] conducted by Guiding Star ‘Global Education Solutions’ [ http://www.gstarglobaleducation.com/ – denzil@gstarglobaleducation.com ] on March 13, 2013
Referring to teachers and masters by their nicknames was very much prevalent during our school days, i.e. around the ‘50s and ‘60s. Besides learning mathematics, science, languages, history, geography and discipline for that matter from our teachers and masters, the forty or fifty odd boys in the class would study intently these teachers and masters,…
….. our attitudes to education today. How we encourage our children and push them. Even more so on how we work with students who are not the “brightest” according the systems we measure. Sir Ken Robinson is a well-known educator and speaker at TED and other forums. This talk is an abridged video of a longer lecture….
Ever hear of the Binaca Hit Parade. No! Neither did I, until a kind adopted Uncle living on Bazaar Road just behind the Boarders Dormitories decided that the least he could do was to play that hit parade real loud for us boarders. And so, we learnt about Frank Sinatra, Pat Boone, Jim Reeves, Cliff…
More names keep popping in my head. There was Thomas Marshal, who I know became a really good commercial artist. Then there was Reggie, who I thought looked always very sleepy. There were the brothers Sabu and Franklin. Both were hansome, one was short and stocky and the other was thin and taller. Now come…
Regret to inform all that Denzil B Menezes, Class of ’71 passed away in Auckland, NZ on April 18, 2013. May his Soul Rest in Peace.
When I say how time flies, I mean that literally. Yet it is as if just yesterday was the day that my mother left me holding that cake as she bid me goodbye in 1950. As if the cake would compensate for her absence. It did not and I promptly became a very sick boy…