Here is a direct rip-off from the website of ICSE Board (India) on why do they teach History and Civics to students of Class X and Class XII.
CLASS X (ICSE BOARD)
CLASS XII (ISC BOARD)
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sunday pleasure readings
What is science?
Science is broadly understood as collecting, analyzing, publishing, reanalyzing, critiquing, and reusing data.
source website : Open Science ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science )
Definition of Transparency :
Transparency, as used in science, engineering, business, the humanities and in a social context more generally, implies openness, communication, and accountability. Transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(behavior))
Transparency can be defined as successful two-way communication about public policy. The institutional arrangements that make it possible reflect national culture, history and values.
However, transparency starts from a core set of measures that are so fundamental as to
be almost indistinguishable from governments’ basic legislative, administrative and
fiscal functions. Core measures help to ensure that people who are affected by policies
know about them and can respond to them. Guidelines for good transparency practices
have emerged in the fiscal and regulatory areas. (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/22/2506884.pdf).
What is Plutocracy ? :
Plutocracy (from Ancient Greek ploutos, meaning "wealth", and kratos, meaning "power, rule") is rule by the wealthy, or powerprovided by wealth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
What is Privacy ? :
Privacy (from Latin: privatus "separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government", from privo "to deprive") is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive. The degree to which private information is exposed therefore depends on how the public will receive this information, which differs between places and over time. Privacy partially intersects security, including for instance the concepts of appropriate use, as well as protection, of information. Privacy may also take the form of bodily integrity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy#Privacy_law)
More reading on what is privacy (http://www.privacy.gov.au/aboutprivacy/what )
Disclosure of an undisclosed information about a person in the public domain constitutes a breach of privacy.
What is Secrecy ?
Science is broadly understood as collecting, analyzing, publishing, reanalyzing, critiquing, and reusing data.
source website : Open Science ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science )
Definition of Transparency :
Transparency, as used in science, engineering, business, the humanities and in a social context more generally, implies openness, communication, and accountability. Transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(behavior))
Transparency can be defined as successful two-way communication about public policy. The institutional arrangements that make it possible reflect national culture, history and values.
However, transparency starts from a core set of measures that are so fundamental as to
be almost indistinguishable from governments’ basic legislative, administrative and
fiscal functions. Core measures help to ensure that people who are affected by policies
know about them and can respond to them. Guidelines for good transparency practices
have emerged in the fiscal and regulatory areas. (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/22/2506884.pdf).
What is Plutocracy ? :
Plutocracy (from Ancient Greek ploutos, meaning "wealth", and kratos, meaning "power, rule") is rule by the wealthy, or powerprovided by wealth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
Examples
One modern, perhaps unique, formalised example of a plutocracy is the City of London.[1] The City (not the whole of modern London but the area of the ancient city, which now mainly comprises the financial district) has a unique electoral system. Most of its voters are representatives of businesses and other bodies that occupy premises in the City. Its ancient wards have very unequal numbers of voters. The principal justification for the non-resident vote is that about 450,000 non-residents constitute the city's day-time population and use most of its services, far outnumbering the City's 9000 residents.[1]
The municipalities of Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake Florida are both owned and governed by The Walt Disney Company, by state statutes. The only landowners are fully owned subsidiaries of Disney, and right-of-way for state and county roads, and the only residents are Disney employees.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy )
What is Privacy ? :
Privacy (from Latin: privatus "separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government", from privo "to deprive") is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive. The degree to which private information is exposed therefore depends on how the public will receive this information, which differs between places and over time. Privacy partially intersects security, including for instance the concepts of appropriate use, as well as protection, of information. Privacy may also take the form of bodily integrity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy#Privacy_law)
More reading on what is privacy (http://www.privacy.gov.au/aboutprivacy/what )
Disclosure of an undisclosed information about a person in the public domain constitutes a breach of privacy.
What is Secrecy ?
Secrecy (also called clandestinity or furtiveness) is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups, perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret.
Secrecy is often controversial, depending on the content of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, and the motivation for secrecy. Secrecy by government entities is often decried as excessive or in promotion of poor operation; excessive revelation of information on individuals can conflict with virtues of privacy and confidentiality.
Secrecy in Sociology : Humans attempt to consciously conceal aspects of themselves from others due to shame, or from fear of violence, rejection, harassment, loss of acceptance, or loss of employment. Humans may also attempt to conceal aspects of their own self which they are not capable of incorporating psychologically into theirconscious being.
Views on secrecy
 | Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Secrets |
Excessive secrecy is often cited[citation needed] as a source of much human conflict. One may have to lie in order to hold a secret, which might lead to psychological repercussions.[original research?] The alternative, declining to answer when asked something, may suggest the answer and may therefore not always be suitable for keeping a secret. Also, the other may insist that one answer the question.[improper synthesis?] Nearly 2500 years ago, Sophocles wrote, "Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all." And Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha, once said "Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth".
websource : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy
Friday, April 13, 2012
About nature of man as a theorist , and the "fundas"
All people like to give , what the a teenager's jargon is called , "fundas". Man as a natue's creation ,has the ability to theorise everything. How different is this great anthropological observation from the statement of a teenager on giving "fundas". hardly any. If we examine more microscopically, what each man does is not called giving his theory, rather he is giving is own 'funda'.
Further, I often think that since all of us, each of us , have our own funda on everything, the real genius from amongst us is the one who can create a "theory" from all the conflicting fundas that each of us has given. A cogent, robustly argued, 'theory", a finished product from the brownian movement of "funda" particles, which combine up to form a substance , a solid.
Most people like to give fandas, but only the rare ones can take the effort to collate all the fundas and create a theory out of it. They are the real genius.
Thus, i hearby, create a difference between a "funda" and a "theory" by my authority of a freeborn man who as a nature's will has been awarded a power to give his own "fundas".
:-).
:-P.
Further, I often think that since all of us, each of us , have our own funda on everything, the real genius from amongst us is the one who can create a "theory" from all the conflicting fundas that each of us has given. A cogent, robustly argued, 'theory", a finished product from the brownian movement of "funda" particles, which combine up to form a substance , a solid.
Most people like to give fandas, but only the rare ones can take the effort to collate all the fundas and create a theory out of it. They are the real genius.
Thus, i hearby, create a difference between a "funda" and a "theory" by my authority of a freeborn man who as a nature's will has been awarded a power to give his own "fundas".
:-).
:-P.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The great challenge in law and commerce in a democractic set-up
Our democratic systems are always vulnerable to being abused against us only.. Whenever a nation adopts principles such as freedom for all, secularism, liberty, ..etc ..IT MUST ALSO ADOPT INSTITUTIONS TO ENSURE THAT there is no abuse happening of these procedures. The biggest challenge before a free-will stemmed Democractic Country is to ensure the preservation of free-will. It is very difficult to make out between Free-Will stemmed conracts and the Co-erced Contracts.. AS MUCH DIFFICULT AS BETWEEN A RAPE AND A CONSENSUAL SEX.!
Saturday, March 10, 2012
About the means of fulfilling man's interest in the future
Man's interest in the event of Future is fulfilled through 3 possible means:
1) Prudence : When man's today's action are governed such as to avoid a possible negative outcome which has been observed in a similar situation in the past.
2) Anticipation: a scientific method in which the future outcome is predicated basis the rate of action happening today, or the psychological behaviour pattern already studied. The method involves use of natural sciences- mathematics, physics, psychology, etc.
3) Fortune telling: unscientific methods which involves undefined,unproved theories in palmistry, astrology, numerology, etc. This method often involves artistic skills from specially bestowed people who we are required to believe in.
1) Prudence : When man's today's action are governed such as to avoid a possible negative outcome which has been observed in a similar situation in the past.
2) Anticipation: a scientific method in which the future outcome is predicated basis the rate of action happening today, or the psychological behaviour pattern already studied. The method involves use of natural sciences- mathematics, physics, psychology, etc.
3) Fortune telling: unscientific methods which involves undefined,unproved theories in palmistry, astrology, numerology, etc. This method often involves artistic skills from specially bestowed people who we are required to believe in.
Micro-level and Macro-level of observing a situation
There are two levels of observing a situation. One is micro-level and the other is macro-level. A man is born to observe in a natural manner, that is through his physical organ of eyes, a scene which is the micro level of observation, that is, physically as he sees in through his eyes. The limitations of micro level observations are : It is like when we are driving on a road we hardly realise when and where we have rounded a turn to change our direction. We see things only from a local perspective and do not relate each round in the road with reference to the previous heading we maintained, most commonly because we do not even feel the round or a bent in the road happening. Often the bends are designed to slowly turn us around in order to prevent an accident in the road. And that is what happens in the micro level observations.
In a macro level, a man has to keep a mental image of the map of the area, that is, a top side view of the zone, and then relate his own headings at each of the courses he has to do while reaching his destination. This is macro level, or "the big picture" of the situation, which the English often keep calling on us to look at whenever any problem situation arises. Macro level observations require great deal of imaginations skill from a person which is often developed through driving and travelling.
Indians being a non-exploring community, are generally lacking in the macro level observational skill. The rural indians are more definitively a lot.
In a macro level, a man has to keep a mental image of the map of the area, that is, a top side view of the zone, and then relate his own headings at each of the courses he has to do while reaching his destination. This is macro level, or "the big picture" of the situation, which the English often keep calling on us to look at whenever any problem situation arises. Macro level observations require great deal of imaginations skill from a person which is often developed through driving and travelling.
Indians being a non-exploring community, are generally lacking in the macro level observational skill. The rural indians are more definitively a lot.
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