Word of the Day (Sisyphean)-24AUG22

Word of the Day (Sisyphean)-24AUG22

Today’s “Word of the Day” is Sisyphean and it is an adjective meaning “futile, pointless, purposeless, impractical, hopeless, unusable, ineffectual, inefficacious, impotent, fruitless, unprofitable, profitless, unproductive, unachievable”.

Example Sentence: However, the education ecosystem, including the early childhood care & education (ECCE)/ Anganwadi system, is not willing to speak parents’ language… But it is not a Sisyphean task to understand what parents want — we simply need to ask them. In surveys that we have conducted repeatedly with rural and urban parents of 3-6 year old children, over 80% of parents consistently tell us that their kids’ best pathway for social mobility through education is via learning English (speaking and writing) and math skills…

Word of the Day (Sisyphean)-24AUG22

This word is present in The Hindu article Not centres of learning yet and click here to read it.

Courtesy: The Hindu

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