Education and Cognitive Liberation

By KP Mohanan and Tara Mohanan

Education, even the best possible kind we can dream of, won’t solve all the problems of humanity. But it surely has the potential to help us make the world better than it is. And flawed education can make it worse. This article is an attempt to diagnose the failure of modern education to address a configuration of natural weaknesses in the human mind and society and suggest a solution.

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Lunch on 21st December, 2509

By KP Mohanan, Tara Mohanan, Aditi Ahuja and Rashmi Jejurikar

This is the first in a series of dialogues between 15 year old Rafa and his mother Samira. Samira loves asking Rafa tough questions which get him to think.

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Romila Thapar in Conversation with KP Mohanan

By KP Mohanan

In this dialogue between historian Romila Thapar and Mohanan, there is discussion on topics such as the nature of historical inquiry, historiography, and the nature of history education.

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Transdisciplinary Thinking

By KP Mohanan

There are various ways in which disciplines relate to each other. Transdisciplinarity refers to the common abstractions which cut across disciplines. This includes concepts like justification, structure, and so on.

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Introduction to Representational Systems

By KP Mohanan and Madhav Kaushish

An understanding of representations and representational systems is crucial for anybody looking to understand or create knowledge. In this first video, Mohanan and Madhav go over various different types of representational systems.

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