#educational

I have always expressed my concern about the flop, corrupt, expensive, inadequate and out dated system of education and teaching in Pakistan. Students are deprived of the real education that they need in their practical lives. Just covering some syllabus and solving some complex Math problems can not be called true education. It must be about our living, like how to live this life and maintain constant control over ourselves. But no, unfortunately that they are not interested and skilled to teach. I have always loved the teaching profession, it should be a rewarding job for those people who really put in their energies to help others through it by being a master of a skill. It has the capacity to shape one's life completely.

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I can teach about a lot of things myself, but what I want to teach about is life. I can not pursue this career but I know that I can deliver a lot if only I get a chance to perform. It's like the core subject of all our educational career and afterwards the work life. It will be all about practical knowledge and no unproven theoretical concepts. Right now, I don't have a big platform, else probably I would have initiated the program via virtual learning tools. I have ideas about how to run this setup in a way which will not make it difficult for others to be a part of this. Course content can be prepared, timetable can be scheduled and the classes can commence in a week or two. It was in my mind, so I shared. This subject should be taught at all levels; it'll broaden the mind of confused masses.

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#PracticalTraining #PracticalEducation #PracticalLearning #Pakistan #TeachingJobs #AdvanceEducation #AdvanceLearning

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В конце игры Fran Bow одиннадцатилетняя главная героиня говорит замечательные слова: "I still don't know many things. But one thing I do know. That between guilt and fear, I choose happiness".

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Мировое сообщество выражает негативное отношение не к России, а к мегаломании правительства РФ. В своих заявлениях ни Запад, ни Европа не отождествляют его с народом - это преднамеренно делает именно российская пропаганда. Их основанный на копирайтинге средней руки мифодизайн призван сводить экономические и политические провалы власти к теории заговора, тем самым снимая с неё всю ответственность. Но вместе с этим у россиян возникает ощущение враждебности окружающего мира, что ведёт их к исторической травме. Одним из её самых опасных долговременных последствий является поколенческая бедность.

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When experiencing learned helplessness, the prospect of a financially independent and sustainable life does not seem achievable, and many people become unaware that they can improve their conditions. (...) When people experience poverty, they are less confident in their ability to succeed, often leading to decreased professional and educational attainment, depression, and anxiety. (...) As a consequence, people tend to view themselves as fundamentally flawed, so any achievement that they receive is neutralized by a lack of confidence and subconscious self-loathing.
(Из подготовленного для ЮНЕСКО и ООН в июле 2021 концептуального документа The Effects of Historical Trauma on Learned Helplessness and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy)

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Английский является международным языком и тебя поймут в любой точке планеты. Ты сможешь на нём работать и при необходимости параллельно осваивать основной язык страны. Помимо этого, на английском публикуется новейший научно-образовательный материал, что бесценно для самоактуализации. Но твоё восприятие искажается интернализированным угнетением: "Мне нет смысла изучать английский, поскольку англоязычный мир презирает меня". Если позволишь сформироваться выученной беспомощности, то это повлечёт за собой снижение самоэффективности, токсичный стыд, депрессию, которые будут передаваться по наследству.

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Не поддавайся пропаганде. Ты не несёшь ответственность за действия правительства, выбирающего само себя. Однако между виной и страхом ты можешь выбрать счастье. И это ответственный выбор, ведь оно важно не только для тебя лично, но и для России, и для мира.

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(Художница Magda Proski)

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Society? 🙂 our society is rotten to the core. This will get long and infuriating. 🙂
But anyway, anyone and I mean anyone, who tries to impose something on literally anyone at all (blood or not) that they do not wanna do, gives up a quarter of their property as penalty of bothering another human being. We’d do that instead of taxation. 🙂 People who hurt animals for fun, get their fingers chopped. 🙂 People who molest others, get beheaded publicly. 🙂 People who consume drugs, would be locked in recovery centres like jails. 🙂 Drug dealers will be shot at sight. 🙂
No stupid police required, everyone can have their personal weapon and use it for their safety. 🙂 Anyone who harms anyone to (oppress them or out of spite) will be made bankrupt. 🙂 and oh free ice cream, medical and educational services for everyone who lives their life without bothering any another, in anyway. 🥰
And we plant a shit ton of trees so this place looks greeeeen and no owning of orchards. Everybody can take fruits from anywhere, be it humans or animals. 🥰

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Zodiac is something like celestial things. In Chinese culture, they are also have their own zodiac based by year they born. Me, I am boar/pig in chinese zodiac. In western zodiac, I am scorpio. Either way, the resembles of my traits are mostly 60% but 40% possibly from my environment. In my point of view, I see this as a mini educational to learn myself (my character) based on my birdate and year and my character. If it talks about prophecy, I rarely believe it but if it talks about my characteristic, I take it some and partially. I see it just for fun and to fill my boredom. My adage is: If it’s not science, it’s superstition. Also, I question your education. Was magical thinking and fortune telling any part of it? Can anyone show it works and how it works? Astrology is a first cousin to racism and sexism. There has never been any actual research done on astrology stereotyping. Why bother when enough people give it a religious like belief and don’t question. It’s myth based or just plain made. It is great to use for excuses and avoiding personal responsibility. Just blame a calendar date. Your birthday or someone’s else’s. They don't matter and have no correlation to anything but it's innocuous and gives people something to talk about
Nah, people are incompatible depending on their values, attitudes and interests but blaming the stars might be easier
Personally I think it's a load of nonsense but to each his own.
I'm sure I hold beliefs that some people feel that same way about.

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This is a tough one because there are lots of great books written by great authors that are educational and tackles different issues. However, I would choose Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of the Crowd by Charles Mackay. The reason is that it is an easy read, informative, and a bit funny which I think is bearable for nonreaders, high schoolers out there. The book shows the horrors when people are simply following the "trend" without thinking rationally, which is pretty much still prevalent in today's society. It basically tells people are stupid in 16 different chapters haha. I mean, it's not entirely wrong as we never learn from history. Tho, there are some aspects of this book that I don't agree with, but for me it just adds to the beauty of reading this because it allows me to evaluate my own principles. :)

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Few parents have the educational background nor the talent or time to teach their children all the different subjects that a student needs to learn. Also, the interactions with other students and adults are extremely valuable for learning a plethora of skills and insights. There are only a small number of children who have situations that would benefit more from home schooling and I think that in general children should be enrolled in schools unless specific conditions are proven (medical or social diagnoses, etc.) that indicate they should stay home. In those cases, the parents should have to write exams that prove they are capable of teaching to a high enough standard that the child would receive a quality education. As a teacher, I think its awesome if parents and kids are dedicated and do it for the right reasons. It's not just an excuse to be lazy or keep your child from learning about 'real life' that happens in schools. The biggest issue is social, but in Australia, there is the opportunity to have sports days and other social occasions with other home-schooled kids. Imagine being able to go to a museum (for example) to cement your child's understanding of a concept. You could specifically tailor your child's education. I would do it if I could.
In order for homeschooling to be effective it takes a particular kind of child and a particular kind of parent. If the child is an average teenager who has a decent social life, does okay in school and is not super motivated then it is not (usually) a good fit. My reasoning is that the student will not have the learning environment that a school offers to push them to succeed.
However I've also worked in a facility that did truancy and I've seen parents who didn't want to go to jail because they didn't ever make their kid go to school and their kids were just left on their own during the day for the most part. These parents would "home school" but I wouldn't say anything was actually taught.
There are definitely some good programs out there, even if the parents aren't necessarily prepared to do all the teaching themselves, and I honestly believe that homeschooling can be done in a beneficial way. It can also be very isolating, painful, and result in a sheltered, unsociable semi-adolescent adult. There are plenty of comparable evils to the American public school system as well.
I went to public school for all 12 years, my siblings were in private school until grade 2 or home schooled. I honestly feel there has been no difference except they didn't waste time on bullshit and got things done quicker than I did. If I was homeschooled I probably would have only spent 3-4 hours a day on schoolwork opposed to 7. The only issue is my little brother is an entitled 10 year old who needs someone to pick on him to get him set right.

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There are limits to the real wealth that any individual can consume… We cannot drive four cars at once, live simultaneously in six homes, take three tours at the same time, or devour 12 roasts of beef at one meal.

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So I always ask the question, ‘what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?’ Well, it’s so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way…

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Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money, because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time… To structure your existence with an objective of monetary gain is to spend a lifetime chasing an abstraction.

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Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. He needs real wealth, in the form of a fishing rod, a compass, an outboard motor with gas, and a female companion.

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What wasn’t understood then, and still isn’t really understood today, is that the reality of money is of the same type as the reality of centimeters, grams, hours, or lines of longitude. Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself.

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I was a social wreck growing up with a lower middle-class family in a big city. I went to school with all the rich kids there without having special talents or anything. I used to feel very shy and had incredibly low self-esteem. But when I was 13, my father moved to a second-tier city. There I was enrolled in a mediocre school. I had a fresh start so I pretended to be very social and confident. I lied about myself all the time and had people looking up to me in no time. Sounds shitty but what do you expect from a 13yo? Fast forward to a year later. I have ample self-esteem and am a pretty popular guy at school. My father has to move again, but this time to a third-tier city. The school I was enrolled in was not as good as my first one but significantly better than my second. I again had a chance at a fresh start. This time I chose not to lie. I was completely honest about myself and my self-esteem from earlier stayed with me. I kind of built more confidence over that and now I'm a 19yo with excellent social skills and public speaking. I learnt how to set boundaries, say no, and be firm about it. I had to learn to put myself first and realize that my needs and wants are important too. I had to learn that it is ok to upset people, especially when you don't want to do something for them. And that people being upset with you is normal. I also read a lot of books on confidence and self-esteem. Most my self-esteem problems came from middle school (my name is a great basis for small penis jokes). And they went away in High School. Until my senior year when it came back. And it came back a lot worse. Anyway I will try to get back into internet communities. I had a very rough childhood - some sprinkles of physical abuse (not from family members) but daily does of educational neglect and emotional torture. I was raised to believe that God "don't make no mistakes" so I concluded (and still believe deeply to this day) that I was either being punished or prepped for something. I had the experiences I had because God wanted me to have them.
I suffer from chronically low self-esteem. I've found myself compulsively assuming the worst in social situations, despite being aware that it's completely illogical: if someone doesn't respond immediately on Facebook I can't shake the feeling that they hate me, despite no evidence to suggest that. If they laugh at my jokes or like my ideas they're just doing it to humor me, despite unprovoked reassurances. If I'm in a relationship, I fear they hate me and can't bring themselves to end it. If I'm just hooking up, I'm confident that they are too embarrassed by being around me to be anything.
Logically, I have no reason to feel this way: I'm the best I've ever been in my life, but I can't shake the overwhelmingly compulsive belief that everyone hates me and I am a shitty shitty person, no matter how inaccurate I know it is.

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My personal thoughts are that grades don't define who you are as a person, they simply restrain your intelligence to a certain letter or number average. A real person is so much more intriguing than the thing you see on that piece of paper/report card. A person has dreams, desires, opportunities, and basing your self worth on grades is stooping yourself down to a low level of what the honestly messed up school system says you can be, rather than trying to achieve the things you want and love. It is a toxic mindset to put yourself down like that and it is much healthier to give yourself a chance rather than confine yourself to the laws of society.
But things won’t always be great on that front. Especially in the workplace. The economy might suck. You will work for and with difficult people. Performance and progression is not as clear cut as it is in school. You will inevitably feel stagnant or stunted or disrespected or devalued, no matter how much success you have. That’s not me being cynical. It’s a part of life. You may have a 4.0, but one day, your career will look less than perfect.
When that day comes it is incredibly healthy to have a sense of meaning that goes beyond work. Family. Friends. Hobbies. Spirituality, if that’s your thing. Civic involvement. A healthy balance is necessary for happiness. It’s like diversifying your portfolio, and if you don’t hedge your well-being against career uncertainty, you will find yourself unhappy one day.
Generally, some people may have an easier path in life up to some point and think themselves to be much better than they actually are. And when they need to show how good they are in front of an average challenge, some fail spectacularly. For example, I don't think I've ever had below 9/10 on any programming related subject since secondary school up to Uni. I'm a shitty programmer. If I would advertise myself that as a good one because of those grades, I would be embarassed when meeting industry standards.
Circumstances outside of your control can cause you to lose whatever it is that’s making you get good grades (natural ability, motivation, resources, etc), so if your self worth is based on your grades you’ll suffer. That’s what I was like, then I moved from northern Virginia to Idaho halfway through high school and had to change my entire educational course and ended up super behind because of how different the school systems were. Tried to kill myself not long after my grades started to suffer as a result of the move. Not saying that’ll happen to you, just saying that sometimes life is fucked so you should just find things to love about yourself that don’t require external validation.

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