2. Purpose of Education
• “The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his
life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.
The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He
has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to
prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge
discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further
knowledge by his own effort.” ~Ayn Rand
• “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how
to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to
enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the
thoughts of other men.” ~Bill Beattie
3. Current situation
• Modern educational systems are built upon a model of teaching known
facts, methods and algorithms to children.
• As a result, the children accumulate a lot of diverse knowledge and
acquire abilities to deal with standard methods, techniques and tools.
• However, too little attention is paid to developing those thinking skills
which let children think out of the box, develop logical, abstract and
creative thinking, cope with conflicts and non-typical problems.
• In the times of accelerated competition there is a growing necessity to
produce new ideas continuously, such thinking skills become crucial to
achieve success in life and build a preferred future.
5. Examples
• To help understand let us revisit the story of
Ekalavya and Dronacharya, where
Dronacharya asked Eklavya to give him his
right thumb as his Gurudakshina, to which
Eklavya promptly cut his right hand thumb
and gave it to the Guru. How could Eklavya
provide the said dakshina to his guru and yet
not lose his thumb?
6. Examples
• How do we divide two
unequal volumes which
are in two containers
equally without using a
measuring device?
7. Examples
• How would you measure the
distance from a 90 degree bend in
a wall to a fixed point if the
measuring scale we have is
damaged from the edge and we
have access to no other things
8. Examples
• Every body loves to play Holi,
children specially like playing with
water balloons, as water balloons
have a potential of hurting people
government put a ban on them,
however the government realized
that they would find it extremely
difficult to enforce the ban and as
a substitute low thickness plastic
bags were allowed.
• After Holi there are many such
plastic bags that are causing litter
that if not cleaned will go and
choke the drainage systems
• what can be done to improve this
situation?
9. Time to Introspect
• Do you think that our
education model in its current
state will help students solve
problems of the nature
described earlier?
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10. Solution
• Rather than Teaching knowledge in the form of instruction the model
of education needs to be based in the form of a problem and a solution
has to be found by the student by using problem solving models
Methods to solve such Non typical
problems need to be taught not only
to students but to Teachers too…….
12. TRIZ
• What is TRIZ and why choosing this technique to support
problem solving activities?
– TRIZ is a Romanized acronym for Russian “Teoriya Resheniya
Izobretatelskikh Zadatch” meaning "Theory of solving inventor's
problems" or "Theory of inventive problem solving". It was
developed by the Soviet researcher Genrich Altshuller and his
colleagues starting in 1946. In comparison with psychological
methodology to boost creativity TRIZ allows a better problem
definition, takes advantage of solution also from other fields, helps
in overcoming compromises and move towards the ideal final
result.
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13. What is TRIZ
• The TRIZ approach is quite different from
other problem solving methodologies. In most
cases the problem you’re facing now, has been
already faced by many other people at different
times, at different places and in different
situation. TRIZ allows to connect your
problem to a standard problem and so
suggesting a standard solution which provide
you the direction to find out the best solution
for your problem overriding your
psychological inertia. But also in case you
must deal with a completely new problem,
ARIZ (the algorithm including up-to-date
TRIZ tool in a structured sequence) will
provide you an
• We have chosen the TRIZ among all the
techniques supporting problem solving
activities, because it offers a systematic
approach to the generation of solutions 13
14. Benefits of TRIZ
• Many years of experience have proven that kids who were trained with the use of TRIZ,
demonstrate much stronger skills and outperform their colleagues. In general, TRIZ helps
with:
• Reducing psychological inertia
• Increasing the degree of creativity
• Decreasing fear of 'non-solvable' problems
• Decreasing fear of barriers
• Increasing problem solving power
• Improving memory
• Increasing self-confidence
• Improving communication skills
• Improving analytical skills
• Increasing independence
• Increasing the ability to calmly deal with conflicts
• Increasing the ability to ask right questions
• Increasing the ability to make right decisions
• Improving communication skills with adults
• Better appreciation of life values
15. Approach
• Teach the Teachers on TRIZ education at basic level
– 51 Hours work shop mode
• Use experts to work with teachers to design better teaching models that
have TRIZ integrated in teaching curriculum
• Run creative competitions in schools based on various structures of
TRIZ
• Run Problem solving competitions
• Educate students till the base level application of TRIZ combined with
creative imagination development
16. Who are currently doing it?
• There are 800 schools in Russia who actively teach teachers and
Students this model of strong thinking
• The European union commission has kicked off a Euro 7000 million
project for the period 2007-2013 with the intention of improving
education models in which TRIZ based education pays a large part
17. • Lets all contribute towards an
INNOVATIVE INDIA
