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Interview
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Be more than what you taught to be: FLUID

by Ashish Jaiswal

Hi Ashish, Lets talks about your latest book fluid? Any thoughts on present education system in
India?
Fluid has been hailed as a revolutionary book by
scholars from Harvard, Yale and Oxford. Fluid I think that most of our current practices of
demonstrates the commonality of education are dangerously
fluid thinking across renowned outdated and we need to bring a
artists, scientists and paradigm shift in the way we are
entrepreneur including Leonardo preparing ourselves for the
da Vinci, CV Raman, Steve Jobs, coming future. I have been
and Charles Darwin. Glimpse into speaking and teaching all around
their lives and know why being the world on the shift needed.
fluid like them could be our Fluid, in my latest book,
biggest winning strategy in the assimilates lessons from the
age of artificial intelligence. approach applied by geniuses
through out history and offers a
Tell us more about the approach
fresh model of learning and
mentioned in this book?
thinking. In my last book, How to
Whether we are in a classroom or Reform a Business School,
in the outer world, we are always includes an on campus multi-year
forced to choose who we are. case study of how Yale
Always expected to walk towards transformed its business school.
a fixed goal. We are either artists
How can our audience be in touch
or scientists or businessmen, We
with your work?
are constantly asked to embrace
these identities with a stronger force. As they say I absolutely love talking to young minds. The
the more we remain folded in our fields, the better schools and universities of the future, their
specialists we are. curriculum and pedagogy will look entirely
different than those of the present times. I love to
What are the origins of "FLUID" concept?
interact with the ones interested in redefining
Fluid shatters this myth by arguing that great the future of education. You can reach me at
minds who have changed the fate of humankind ashish@fluid.education and can check my work
are actually the ones who failed, faltered, and previous books at ashishjaiswal.com
remained uncertain yet never bothered to remain
Interview with Ashish Jaiswal by Sai Nikhil Dintakurthi
posted to a fixed line. They were more. They were
fluid.

About the author:
Ashish Jaiswal is an internationally renowned expert on education, his written work has
appeared in several publications, including The Guardian, India Today and The Hindu and has
been covered by international media including BBC ? Oxford, CKLN ? Toronto and many
more. Ashish holds a doctorate and a master?s in the field of education from the University of
Oxford and is currently a research fellow at the Oxford Center for Higher Education Policy Studies
(OxCHEPS). Ashish is also the founder of iHER (India for Higher Education Reforms), a
community platform with over 100,000 of students, educationists and policymakers with the aim
to discuss transformative ideas on education.

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