In today’s digital age, learning has become more convenient than ever. Google answers questions instantly, online courses offer flexible learning, and information is just a click away. But even with all these tools, one timeless truth remains: technology can support, but it can’t replace the wisdom and guidance of a Guru . Especially in subjects like Geography , field-based knowledge is crucial. You can watch videos of landscapes, but can you feel the texture of laterite soil or experience the heat radiating off a quarry wall through a screen? Certainly not. Take, for instance, our recent field visit to a laterite brick formation site near Ratnagiri (Figure 1) . Students actively engaged in observing the extraction and structural features of laterite bricks during a guided field study—an essential component of geomorphological learning beyond the classroom. Such visits offer students the chance to observe, ask, and absorb in ways no online platform can replicate. The physical envir...
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