HeyJaredOff Syllabus
A platform by The Brigade Schools where experts come together for real conversations about growing up, learning, failing, parenting, identity, and navigating modern childhood.
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What Should Education Really Prepare Children For? | Ms. Pavitra & Ms. Nirupa Shankar | Off Syllabus Ep 12 (opens the original)
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Season 1 finale. Ms. Pavitra Shankar, Managing Director of the Brigade Group, and Ms. Nirupa Shankar, Joint Managing Director of the Brigade Group and Managing Director of Brigade Hotel Ventures, join us in a year that marks 40 years of Brigade and 20 years of the Brigade Schools. We begin before the designations. One of them was the model student, the one who listened to teachers and never got into trouble, and who spent years afterwards untangling what all that approval did to her relationship
What Should Education Really Prepare Children For? with Ms. Pavitra Shankar and Ms. Nirupa Shankar (opens the original)
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Season 1 finale. Some things cannot be taught in a classroom. You can make education more practical, more realistic, closer to the world outside, and there will still be a set of skills that only arrive through doing the actual work. Pavitra Shankar and Nirupa Shankar [designations] join us for the last episode of the season to talk about what that gap means for children, for teachers, and for anyone entering the workforce right now. They talk about how hard teaching has become in the age of AI,
Why Children Need to Disagree | Off Syllabus | Episode 11 (opens the original)
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What do fairness, courage and justice actually look like from a child's eyes? Senior Advocate Sajan Poovayya has spent his career inside courtrooms, but in this episode, he brings that same rigour to the questions parents wrestle with at home. Why disagreement, not obedience, is where empathy begins. Why children absorb dignity from how we treat the person serving us tea, not from what we tell them. Why social media has replaced reflection with reaction. And why the single most powerful thing a
Why Children Need to Disagree | Mr. Sajan Poovayya | Episode 11 Trailer (opens the original)
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What if the most important thing you could give your child isn't discipline, but the right to disagree with you? Senior Advocate Sajan Poovayya joins Off Syllabus to unpack where empathy really begins, why courage can't be lectured into a child, and why kids forgive almost everything except hypocrisy. A conversation every parent will recognise themselves in. Off Syllabus, a podcast by The Brigade Schools.
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