Journal: Notes from the Beyond 8 tribe
We write for families and educators who are thinking carefully about what school can be after Grade 8. Here you’ll find clear viewpoints, lived stories, and practical lenses on learning, adolescence, and choice, written by our founders, mentors, and occasionally, our learners.
Applying your liberal education in the real world? Try ‘directness’!
How often do we find that learnings from the classroom translate into something marginally useful in the real world? Are these skills “transferable”?
Pugazh Arasu
24 May 2021
Going from ‘student’ to ‘changemaker’: notes from a liberal learner
People often wonder how liberal education is different from its traditional counterpart. Well, there are several ways, but in this post, we will focus on one aspect: finding purpose.
Arpit Chhikara
21 May 2021
Need help getting your people excited about your vision? Here are 5 mantras from Nudge Talks 2021!
Getting your employees passionate about your cause is exactly the problem we went in to solve at the latest edition of Nudge Talks 2021.
Arpit Chhikara
19 May 2021
Dear 21st century - an open letter from a liberal learner
What do you think? Is liberal education going to be relevant in the 21st century?
Arpit Chhikara
14 May 2021
Unconventional ways to rock an architecture degree
The new normal that has compelled us to stay home and not gather outside in groups almost feels unnatural. After all, we human beings were wired for social interactions!
Mihika Shankar
3 May 2021
Why is the word ‘genius’ harmful?
This ‘genius’ culture is both useless and false if we were to then let go of it, what then would fill up this cultural vacuum? Well, just award the effort, award thinking that goes beyond goals
Pugazh Arasu
29 April 2021
How Zoho Corp. is building an open culture for its people
Liberal Education has been described as a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge, transferable skills, strong sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement - characterised by challenging encounters with important issues. It is more a way of studying than a specific course or field of study
Reyan Mishra
26 April 2021
Can Autonomous Learning Change Your Child's Life For The Better?
Liberal Education has been described as a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge, transferable skills, strong sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement - characterised by challenging encounters with important issues. It is more a way of studying than a specific course or field of study
Aishwarya Muralidhar
21 April 2021
What if L&D was second nature to our children?
Liberal Education has been described as a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge, transferable skills, strong sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement - characterised by challenging encounters with important issues. It is more a way of studying than a specific course or field of study
Aishwarya Muralidhar
21 April 2021
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