The brightly lit bulb in comics depicts a flash of insight, when something incomprehensible suddenly makes sense, the moment you go ‘A-ha, I got it!’ The mental exhilaration you get when you makea connection between something new and something you already know is called the a-ha moment.True comprehension is also what makes knowledge actionable.But why is it that your formal education journey doesn’t have too many of these a-ha moments? And what can you do…

As an independent educator, I often conduct workshops at schools and this gives me a chance to interact with teachers. Couple that with all the various parent-teacher meetings I have attended as a parent to a 14-year-old, and it means I have observations on the different kinds of teachers that people the education world. I find that they can broadly be classified into three types:Maximum Markus: Some who have a very narrow definition of schooling…