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Which rules did he break as a school boy?
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As a school boy he never liked studies.Till his 11th class,he always copied to pass the examination.
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What made her advise him so?
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Mrs Gupta advised him so, when she saw his fine sketches .
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Who, in your view, is an ‘unusual’ learner?
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An unusual learner can be a genius in any subject. He will be different from the rest. He may not be interested in all the subjects, as his mind would be occupied with just one idea or subject, most of the time.
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How would you want to define mathematics? Do you like the subject?
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Maths is a combination numbers and formulas. As a result you get a logical result. Yes I like the subject, as it is always precise.
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What is Hafeez Contractor’s definition of mathematics?
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Hafeez Contractor believes that putting design, construction, Psychology and Sociology together and making a sketch out of all that is Mathematics.
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How did he help fellow students who had lost a button?
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When a fellow student lost a button while playing or fighting, Hafeez would cut a button for him from chalk, using a blade.
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What was Mrs Gupta’s advice to Hafeez Contractor?
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When Hafeez was in the second or third standard, his teachers Mrs Gupta saw his neat sketches and advised him to become an architect when he grew up.
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Hafeez Contractor wanted to join the police force. Why didn’t he?
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Hafeez wanted to join the police force, but his mother adviced him to do his graduation first. So he joined Jaihind College in Mumbai.
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Would you have liked to participate in the “distraction” had you been with him?
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I would have avoided such distraction for fear of the teacher. Moreover, it was completely a wastage of time.
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What “distraction” did Hafeez Contractor create one day?
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One day, Contractor didn’t feel like studying so he started the game of Chor-Police with his friends. In the end, they spent one hour playing the game.
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What did Hafeez Contractor have nightmares about
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Hafeez Contractor used to be afraid of mathematics as a child and he used to get continuous nightmares about appearing for a maths exam where he didn’t know anything.
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What can schools do to draw out the best in unusual learners? Suggest whatever seems reasonable to you.
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School should stop treating all the learners as ordinary. They should not follow ald mechanical methods of teaching. They should try to discover the hidden talent in each learner and encourage him to do his best in developing it.
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In the architect’s office, Hafeez Contractor was advised to drop everything and join architecture. Why?
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The incident happened by chance. One day Hafeez saw somebody drawing a window design. He pointed out that the drawing was wrong, and the window would not open, and he was proved right. His cousin's husband was surprised. He asked him to design a house and he did that too. After that he told Hafeez to leave everything and join architecture.
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What did the Principal say to him, which influenced him deeply?
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Hafeez Contractor’s Principal summoned him one day and told him that he needed to realise that his mother was single handedly bringing him up and educating him. So it was now time for him to rise up to the occasion and do well in his SSC examinations.
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Is it likely that someone who is original and intelligent does not do very well at school? Should such a learner be called a failure? If not, why not?
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Someone who is original and intelligent does not do well at school because such minds are busy or engrossed in only their own field. School is a place where many subjects are taught. A bright child with original ideas is engrossed in only his particular subject. Such a learner can not be called a failure. Our education system is formulated to give basic idea of various subject to all the students, therefore such students do not fit in such curriculum.
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