Culturally Rich Inventions

Culturally Rich Inventions
The digit zero and the numbering system
Chess
Algebra, Trigonometry, and Calculus
The decimal system
The game of Snakes and Ladders
The value of “pi”
Noble prizes in Literature, Physics, Economics, Peace and Medicine
Ayurveda is the earliest literature of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, practiced medicine 2500 years ago.
Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
India never invaded any country in her 10,000 years of history
Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism borne in India and followed by 25% of the world's population
Founder of Sun Microsystems
Invented Pentium Microprocessor created and founded Hotmail

There are 3.22 millions Indians in USA
(1.5% of population), but they constitute
38% of doctors
12% scientists
36% of NASA scientists
34% of Microsoft employees
28% of IBM employees
17% of INTEL scientists
13% of XEROX employees
Facts and Statistics
India is one of the ten nuclear state in the world has a labor force of over 509 million, 60% of which is employed in agriculture and related industries.
India is the second most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world.
It is the world’s 4th largest economy in terms of purchasing power
Hindi is the national language. There are 21 other languages that are either spoken or have classical status. The number of dialects in India is as high as 1,652.
Major industries include automobiles, cement, chemicals, consumer electronics, food processing, machinery, mining, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, steel, transportation equipment, and textiles.
HINDU FINE ARTS AND MUSIC * Drawing and Painting * Sculpture * Music * Dance dances * Bharata-natya – South India * Kathak – Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh * Kathakkali - Kerala * Kucipudi – Andhra Pradesh * Manipuri –
Manipur * Odissi-natya – Oriya style of music * Sattriya-natya – Assam * Yaksagana – Karnataka
Folk-Dances
* Bhangra (Punjab) * Garba (Gujarat) * Holi (Manipur) * Kolata (Karnataka) * Ludi (Punjab) * Pangi (Himachal Pradesh) * Suggi-kunita (Karnataka) * Tabal Congbi (Manipur) * Tiyan-baghi (Punjab)
500,000 Stone hand axes etc tools were made in India
300,000 Homosapiens with same brain size that of humans
75,000 Last ice age began
40,000 Group of hunters living in painted rock shelters
7,000 Farming village Mehrgarh at the edge of Indus Valley, grew barley, raised sheep and goats, stored grains and constructed sun baked bricks
6,500 Rig Veda versus indicate winter solstice – composed early vedic hymns – David Frawley
6,000 Baked pottery small clay female figurines, long distance trade in precious stones and shells
5,000 Harappa Mohanjedaro cities were flourishing
4,000 Date of creation of world according to genealogy of Old Testament
2,393 Bharatha was born
1,500 Indus valley civilization is abandoned due to floods
950 First Jewish settlement in India
624 Siddhartha Gouthama Buddha was born in shaivite Hindu family.
Standardized Testing Is Unfair
People learn differently, so why should they be tested the same way? Education is the most important part of growing up and classrooms are always trying to come up with different ways of teaching subjects. But why should we throw away what we know when it comes to testing? We know everyone learns in a different way and schools cater to those who need more time or more hands on work, but when it comes to the part of our schooling that counts the most in terms of grading we force everyone into the same boat in hopes that the majority of them will
pass.
Some kids are not good at memorizing but are great at discussing and acting out a scenario.
In their book, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track, authors Russell L. Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg point out that today's education system is seriously flawed -- it focuses on teaching rather than learning. "Why should children -- or adults -- be asked to do something computers and related equipment can do much better than they can?" the authors ask in the following excerpt from the book. "Why doesn't education focus on what humans can do better than the machines and instruments they create?"
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth learning can be taught." -- Oscar Wilde
The objective of education is learning, not teaching.
. Albert Einstein, best known for his "Theory of Relativity," said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." Though a scientist, he understood the importance of imagination.