Nikhil Kamath: The nuclear family structure restricts organic learning for children
Nikhil Kamath · Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath · Jun 11, 2023 · at 2:06:21
Nikhil Kamath (co-founder of Zerodha) reflects on education reform during an EdTech roundtable discussion with Ronnie Screwvala, Gaurav Munjal, and Jay Kotak.
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“I feel like the modern construct of a family, husband, wife, child, or non-child, or non-child, is not Is not the best to fester education in the manner that I would dream for it to be. I think if you go back in time before organized religion and many other things, each kid learned from the community, and he fixated upon what skill set he might like in the community, what he would like to inculcate. I feel the modern Notion of a family. We tell our kids what religion to follow. We tell our kids what it is okay to study. Maybe not consciously, but subconsciously. I don't know how this will work. But going back to a world where the mimetic influences of the world are lesser on the child, and the child Is allowed an environment to be more organic about the learning choices he makes is something that should change about education.”
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