You can and should block your keyboard app's access to the network using a firewall. However, this will require root access and I've seen people jump at this point to say you absolutely should not have root access to your own phone, which I find pretty ridiculous and unacceptable.
In India, the identity of a student is defined by his grade. It's too bad students score grades that are not sufficient to satisfy the ego of their parents/relatives/society.
It takes a lot of time for people to discover that they are not limited by their grades. People who never discover that, define their children using the same yardstick.
It's really sickening. I really wish the parents understand that the real world is more about collaboration than competition.
Anyone interested in truly understanding what education is - please read this book "totto-chan , the little girl at the window".
IITians are demi gods in India. This status puts a lot of pressure on student at a young age to crack this entrance. So much so, that there are regular cases of students committing suicide due to the pressure from society and family.
For many who don't know, there are coaching classes where preparation for the exam is begun as early as the 5th or 6th grade.
It took me 2 years to get over the failure of not getting into IIT. It's a really messed up situation.
I really hope parents understand the situation and stop traumatizing their kids.
For a lot of kids its the only way out of the hood. Especially these kids in super 30. If they don't make it its back to poverty. If they get in they have the ability change their entire families socioeconomic status including parents and siblings. Its like pro athletes or rappers trying to get out of the hood. Its hard to do.
It's ok to say that cracking the entrance exam is going to give them a great platform on which they can build their future.
But telling a 16 year old to clear it believing it's a matter of life and death . That has to be one of the biggest failure of the parents/society/educational system.
I really hope that Internet education reaches a stage where no one has to face such a situation.
Being one of those failed students, I would like to tell any one who is trying to clear the exam and reading this. Try your best, it's ok if you don't clear.
If you persist and keep working hard with whatever you have, you will do wonders.(Ignore people who say otherwise).
Check out https://pinboard.in/tour/. Pinboard's feature set is more geared towards bookmark management which happens to have a read later integration. It's quite different than Pocket.
Frankl in Man's search for meaning writes that in Nazi concentration camps "Some men lost all hope, but it was the incorrigible optimists who were the most irritating companions."
Seems like acc to Dr. Frankl incorrigible pessimists are better companions than incorrigible optimists.
The quote I mentioned was written from a different perspective.
He is talking about his companions. If we try to understand the author's perspective, he was somewhere between the spectrum of men who lost all hope and incorrigible optimists.
For someone like that, I believe the incorrigible optimists would be much more irritating. It's like, there are so many problems and instead of fighting them, the optimists don't want to acknowledge they are there.
Wow !! Just realized that.