Self-improvement is one of the most effective systems – especially in mature age and in these troubled times in which the pandemic has imposed social and scholastic distancing – to deepen one’s cultural biases and the education that has suffered due to the lockdown.
I remember Arifa, a lively 8-year-old girl who would come to help her mother keep the hostel rooms clean for the residents of college where I was residing in Lahore.
The problems with SNC are not just limited to how it is being adopted by textbook publishers and its corresponding visual and textual integration into the books that are ultimately going get consumed by our children during their formative years.