Education Is A Vast Discipline, The Process Of Which Starts From The Very Outset Of Life And Ends With The End Of Life.The Egyptians And Sumerians Founded The Very First Schools In About 3000 B.C. Thereafter, Plato Founded A School Of Philosophy, Called, The Academy In About 387 B.C. In The 18Th C. The Enlightenment Or The Age Of Reason Brought New Disciplines And Teaching Methods. State Education Began In The Early 19Th C. And In 1841; Froebel Started The First Kindergarten And So On. Similarly, Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna, Sir Syed, Abdul Kalam Azad Etc. All Those Geniuses Whose Names Are Written With Golden Letters In The Pages Of History.All Of Them Contributed Their Energies In Various Ways. They Not Only Structed The Syllabi But Also Formulated The Policies In Order To Carry The Light Of Education In The Remotest Rural Areas. They Also Chalked Out Programmes For The Training Of Teachers To Make Them Abreast Of The Developments Taking Place In The World Of Education.Present Work Is A Treatise On The Lives, Struggles, And Contributions Of The Great Educationalists Of The World. It Would, Hopefully, Be Of Immense Interest And Inspiration For All The Scholars, Students, Academics, Researchers And The General Readers Alike.
This working paper presents the results of the Pakistan Component of the Rice-Wheat Consortium Project on ‘Sustaining the rice-wheat production systems of Asia’. Rice and wheat crops are main nsources of human food and substantially contribute to feeding livestock. The advent of the green revolution in the 1960s resulted in a tremendous increase in the production of these two cereal crops and the rice-wheat cropping system emerged as a very important source of food supply in South Asia. Recent symptoms of stagnant growth rates in productivity and the degradation of the resource base pose serious challenges to future food security and natural resources management in the region. The growing scarcity of water in the region
A vivid portrait of India’s outsourcing industry In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced—complete with Westernized names, accents, habits, and lifestyles that are organized around a foreign culture in a distant time zone. Dead Ringers chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. In the process, the book deftly explores the complications of hybrid lives and presents a vivid portrait of a workplace where globalization carries as many downsides as advantages. Shehzad Nadeem writes that the relatively high wages in the outsourcing sector have empowered a class of cultural emulators. These young Indians indulge in American-style shopping binges at glittering malls, party at upscale nightclubs, and arrange romantic trysts at exurban cafés. But while the high-tech outsourcing industry is a matter of considerable pride for India, global corporations view the industry as a low-cost, often low-skill sector. Workers use the digital tools of the information economy not to complete technologically innovative tasks but to perform grunt work and rote customer service. Long hours and the graveyard shift lead to health problems and social estrangement. Surveillance is tight, management is overweening, and workers are caught in a cycle of hope and disappointment. Through lively ethnographic detail and subtle analysis of interviews with workers, managers, and employers, Nadeem demonstrates the culturally transformative power of globalization and its effects on the lives of the individuals at its edges.
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