Year: 2018

Impart education – Uplift societies, rejuvenate nations

Imagine this, about 775M1people in this world are uneducated. Another 152M1 children are following the dreadful footsteps towards becoming illiterate. Considering today’s world population of 7.4B, a staggering 12% people are either illiterate or are deprived of education. This is disturbing data, for education is the single most force which can bring a meaningful and

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Past and Future

It’s often easy to forget that the past and future exist at the same time as the present. After all, the actions we have chosen to perform in the past all give rise to the actions we perform in the present, and we act in the present with the intent of changing our future. The

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Schools Vs Prison = An Inversely Proportional Relationship?

“He who opens a school door closes a prison”                                                                               – Victor Hugo That’s the whole point! The world tends to interpret ‘open new schools’ as ‘build new schools’. Currently in the world, there is on average one school for every one thousand children, with possibly more micro schools.  So, that’s 7,000,000 schools for 7

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Please, pay attention!

Please, pay attention! At six, I kept a sharp-outlook. I was always trim and smart, and I often answered most of the questions in my class, but I was not learning; I was only listening to reply, and not paying attention to understanding. “What is the square root of forty-nine?” “Seven…?” I answered Mrs. Johnson

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School develops and nurtures character

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo For any society to record progress, the need to harness the human resources within its fold becomes inevitable. To achieve the end of prosperity, society must uphold the means of education and empowerment of its members. In this wise, Victor Hugo’s maxim is

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Are you really listening?

Communication is a very sensitive and diverse topic as people from all walks of life have different ideas of how to communicate and some of these differences may be due to differences culturally, generationally or intellectually. Communication can be the first impression that an individual has of you. If you are listening with the intent

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Somebody else’s children wash ashore

“you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land” Warsan Shire’s Home My mother loved me, as mothers love their daughters. She wanted nothing more than to keep me close, watch me roam the hallways of my beloved university some more, then finish

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The Role of Education: To Remove Self-Ignorance.

Education is a single word in the English vocabulary that consists of all vowels put together. It has seen much advancement, as it has experienced the changes of nature and humanity over the ages. With the passage of time, mankind felt the intensity of colonisation, the pressures of livelihood, security and humanity, and therefore considered

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No one

For thousands of years, emigration has been a part of the human race. From 2011 to date it is said that 20 people are displaced every minute due to wars, political, social and cultural intolerance or poverty. The recent refugee crisis in Europe and some parts of the Middle East saw the rise of tension

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Locked In Prisons Of Our Own Design?

While urging one of my students to stop procrastinating on her English assignment, I noted, “Better to give me something rather than nothing, even if it’s not perfect.” In response, the high school senior confided, “But this is what I think. If I can control the outcome, I might as well do all I can

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The Bitter Hypocrisy of Education

Education is a right. It is the twenty-sixth of the thirty fundamental human rights that are written in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The article states that every person should have the option of free primary school. Children should be taught what their parents choose, as well as social skills like how

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Can You Hear Me?

Imagine that from this point forward, you are no longer able to hear. It may come as a surprise but verbal communication is the second most common form of interpersonal communication, not the first. Writer and educator Stephen Covey wrote back in 1989, “Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with

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Conquering the prison of life

As a matter of fact: education by itself is a tool, a source of conditioned power and a redeemer of human wits. This is because throughout the ages society has witnessed a tough battle, a war of minds. The conquered in this contest have limited space in the community. Just as other sources of power,

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Open schools to reduce prisons

He who opens a school door closes a prison. This statement is true in one way or the other. Many people live in bondage due to ignorance. The meaning varies between a real prison and a prison of ignorance.  Many people are living like slaves through ignorance, as the saying goes, you will know the truth and the

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An Egalitarian Society and Our Stand

When Charles Darwin published ‘Survival of the fittest’, a breakthrough in theory of evolution, he perhaps assumed that the race will be in same manner for every animal. And thus he deliberately did not mention the use of ‘fair means’ in case of human. This virtue of fairness and righteousness can be called justice. Greek

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Injustice and Persecution have no respect for borders

On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr, while jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, wrote an open letter to clergy who were opposed to his style of protesting. A circuit judge had ruled on April 10 against non-residents of Birmingham organizing marches and protests there. Martin Luther King Jr and his Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Does being educated make a person less prone to criminal activities?

Education is very important in a person’s life, as it can make a person knowledgeable in the field of his choice. It helps a person grow in a civil society. Education is an investment in the future, as a person’s life is impacted by it, and it has the chance to better a person’s quality

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Education throughout history: The Excalibur or the Round Table?

If the pen is mightier than the sword, teach a man to read and you’ve armed him for a lifetime. He is now equipped with the most useful and versatile weapon he could imagine: one that will help him earn bread and butter, prompt his personal development and generally make his entire life better. Some

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No One Wins in the Win-Lose Approach to Conversations

Listening is an art form, and like most art, it is interpreted differently by every person. Some people listen intently, hanging on every word, trying to understand what is being said. Others, pretend they are listening and give the appropriate head nod or “mm hmm”, but are not actually interested in responding or carrying on

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A Right to the Rich, A Privilege to the Poor

Growing up, most of us have probably been told that completing our education is a must, and while that much is true, the line we’ve drawn between whether it is a right, meaning it is something everyone should have, and whether it’s a privilege, meaning it can only be experienced by a blessed few, is

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