Education

 H E A V E N Originally the term “Heaven” referred to the sky or the area above the earth where the “Heavenly bodies” are placed.  Heaven (Arabic Jannah), is the Islamic conception of paradise.  The Arabic word Jannah is a shortened version meaning simply “Garden”.  According to Islamic eschatology, after death one will reside in the grave until the appointed resurrection on Yawm Al Qiyamah.  Muslims believe that the treatment of the individual in the life of the grave will be according to his or her deeds in the worldly life.  Jannah is often compared to Christians concepts of Heaven.  According to Muslim belief, everything one longs for in this world will be there in Paradise.  Paradise itself is commonly described in the Qur’an.  The highest level of Paradise is Firdous, which is where the Prophets, the Martyrs and the most truthful and pious people will dwell.  DESCRIPTIONS OF PARADISE: The descriptions of Paradise are mentioned in...

 BELIEFS ABOUT ALLAH/GOD We all want to make it through life with some degree of success, some sense that we did it right. And if others think they know how life can be satisfying, even meaningful, it’s at least checking out.  What about the major world religions?  Is there anything in them that would give our lives greater stability and value? The following is an opportunity to look into the major world religions, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, new-age.  Each of these systems has sects with differing beliefs.  The description given here focuses on the heart of that system.  Included is a brief description of each, its distinguishing characteristics, and what a person can gain from each.   ISLAM AND ITS BELIEFS Muslims believe there is the one almighty God, named Allah, who is infinitely superior to and transcendent from human kind.  Allah is viewed as the creator of the universe and the source of all good and all evil.  Everyt...

 ALLAH (GOD) Allah is an Arabic word.  Allah (God), the one and only God in Islam.  Etymologically, the name Allah is a contraction of the Arabic al-llah, “The God”.   The name’s origin can be traced back to the earliest semitic writings in which the word for God was il or el.  Allah is the standard word for God and is used by Muslims. Allah is the pivot of the Muslim faith.  Islam holy scripture, the Qur’an, constantly preaches Allah’s reality, his inaccessible mystery, his various names, and his actions on behalf of his creature.   Three themes preponderate:  (1) Allah is the Creator, Judge and Rewarder; (2) He is unique (Wahid) and inherently One (Ahad); (3) He is Omnipotent and all Merciful. Allah is the “Lord of the worlds”, the most high, nothing is like unto him, and this in itself is to the believer a request to adore Allah as the Protector and to glorify his powers of compassion and forgiveness. Allah is often conceived as...

 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEADMASTER AND STAFF:  Delicate and critical role of the principal. The principal has to play a very delicate and critical role as he has to strike a balance in the practical field among fighting and quarrelling students, grudging and grumbling teachers and complaining parents. The members of the teaching staff have their different whims: some sensitive, some emotional, some enthusiastic, some old, some young, some trained and other untrained and some marking time. The principal has to make the BEST use of them and seek their whole hearted cooperation in all the activities of the school, academic, co-curricular and administrative.  Encouragement in one case, assistance in overcoming difficulties in another, suggestions here, definite orders there, all are necessary, “writes H.G. Stead. The principal has to weld the members of the staff into a real team. The principal is expected at various times and by various interests to play many roles. He mus...

 Direct method of teaching: The direct method of teaching, sometimes called the natural method. Not limited to but often used in teaching foreign languages, the method refrains from using the learners' native language and uses only the target language. It was established in Germany and France around 1900. Characteristic features of the direct method are: • teaching concepts and vocabulary through pantomiming, real-life objects and other visual materials • teaching grammar by using an inductive approach (i.e. having learners find out rules through the presentation of adequate linguistic forms in the target language) • centrality of spoken language (including a native-like pronunciation) • focus on question-answer patterns Principles: 1. Classroom instructions are conducted exclusively in the target language. 2. Only everyday vocabulary and sentences are taught during the initial phase; grammar, reading and writing are introduced in intermediate phase. 3. Oral communica...

CAUSES OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE/UNFAIR MEANS Education System: The education system is the instrument a society uses to equip all its people to lead productive public lives and full personal lives according to their talent and interest. This system must be such that gifted individuals have full opportunity to develop their skills; it must give scope for the training of a leadership group and at the same time provide for the development of all the vocational abilities needed for the creation of a progressive and democratic society. The quality of education that we impart to our youth and the priority at which we rate it contribute largely to the formation of the attitudes they carry over into public life.  So whatever kind of seed we sow in the classroom, the manner in which we nurture it and the  strength which it imbibes in its various stages of growth will all determine the harvest that the nation will reap in the form of its educated youth coming out of the schools, c...

 GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING FOR ADDESCENTS INTRODUCTION: Back Ground: Adolescence is the most important period of human life. Adolescence is that span of fears during which boys and girls more from childhood to dult hood physically, mentally, emotionally ad socially. It is also viewed as a process of achieving the attitude and the belief needed for the effective participation in the community.  Addescents personality is the result of many forces. There total personality is the result of many forces their total personality is the sum total of attributes and qualities of heredity and environment factors which operate together on the lives of these individab in the integration of addescent personality, all conditions and basic abilities interplay their role.     Justification of the Study: Charles skinner has defined the adolescence phase of life philosophical word according to him, it is the most crvcial period in life of human being. It is a time when the surge of l...