Most of us cannot escape an engagement with the idea of education  through our lives either as learners or as parents or teachers. This happens mostly through the various educational institutions - starting from schools and later colleges and universities. Increasingly this experience is marked by a lot of disillusionment, dissatisfaction, (sometimes immense) stress and pointlessness with most of the "educational"  institutions. We try to fix it usually in two ways – either changing the school or college ,or trying to ‘fix” the learner and getting her or him to “cope” - with tuition, extra coaching and sometimes counselling. Very often these are stop-gap fixes, which don't work and never take away the dissatisfaction we feel with these experiences deep down. Conversations on Education is planned as a series of dialogical events to together explore the idea of education and its connection to our lives, aspirations, notions of work/employment and also engage with the implications of this with our own predicaments as learners, parents, teachers or even employers. We also hope to explore the possibilities available through more convivial educational opportunities/options available. The event on 18th is a first of these series and will begin with screening a short movie to trigger off a discussion and enable us to connect.