THE PILOT OUTREACH

                                    

In preparation for the outreach; to educate the youth on the importance of self-education.
We sent out a few notes to the Junior Secondary School graduates, and held a short discourse on education and its purpose.

 
We tried discussing a couple of ideas that we believed were vital to the whole education subject.

What is the  meaning of education:

The original meaning of education , comes from the latin word ēducāre, which means to "bring out".
The closest word to that is educe; which means to bring out or lead out something latent or potential.

If this is the original meaning of education, then we've missed it. Because the educational system here, is doing something that is totally the opposite of what education is supposed to be.

                                                
We drew an example from the Spartans and how Lycargus
brought out the warrior-ship in the spartan young men.

 
The young men I believed were inspired. We asked them to take the fate of their education into their hands .We gave them a reason to pick up a book related to their passion.
Since all three were interested in becoming scientists, we offered them a couple of books on Richard Feyman's talks and life, to inspire them.

Pick up a passion, pick up a book

READING AND JOURNALING

I sometimes wonder how come I have so much enthusiasm for reading these days.
Reading didn't seem like something really exciting at first
Especially anytime I picked up a book and saw countless pages of text without pictures.
I immediately felt bored, nothing instigated the will to start reading the first page and then
maybe continue to the next.
I can't remember exactly how I ended up in this stage of my life where, every now and then I
want to pick up a book about this or that and then start reading all about it.
It seems to me, I always have to develop a reason to pick up a book, and that reason might be the
fact that I want to get to know about something I like.
Or maybe just to have fun, imagining stuffs and as excited I am about movies, its cool sometimes
to picture a whole movie in your head while just reading words.
It is exciting to see words come alive the way they do, when you pick up a piece of story or novel.

KEEPING JOURNALS

Journals are a special way of expressing oneself.
It goes well beyond just penning down words 
Its a way one communicates to himself 
The book and pen are just there for records sake
But the real depth of the journaling thing is unleashing thoughts, expressing how you feel about  something, a situation or an idea
It involves connecting pieces of ideas and sometimes making sense out of it.
It involves saying all you want without control.
Your journal is the part of you that wants to talk and wants to listen.
It doesnt restrict you to the form or way you need pour how you feel......
It has such attention and care n all you have to do is pour.....
Its always saying
Tell it all to me
And I will give it all back to you when you are ready


A reflection of how you felt yesterday can only help you grow, if any lesson is learned.
And it works, is like taping yourself while you reacted to that situation and then later you find out ...you didnt handle things quite well afterall.


Its like reading that book and saying what you thought, but after reading it again you find out there was more to the story than you were able to make out of it.


Tell it all to me
And I will give it all back to you when you are ready
Im jst a reflection yet a deep one.