I love Mathematics. I love Statistics. I love Quantitative Analysis. Mostly, I love Accounting and Finance; my core courses. If I were a student in the sciences, I know I’d also love Physics. I love conundrums, anything that gets your wits to the edge and your mind entangled with reasoning. I love all these. Although
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You are really, really, really, really, really normal. And so am I.
There is a girl I wish I could have spent a little more time with. Someone from my past. I remember a holiday I took with her, the two of us were swimming with a shoal of fish in the shallows of an island while light rain beat down on the surface. The water was
Two Paths Diverge in the Halls of the Little Red School House – Which One Should We Take?
Do we take the path of broadening the mind or do we take the path of preparing students for working life? Consider what broadening the mind and preparing for working life really means. What does broadening the mind mean? It means to expand your way of thinking so that you are able to accept other
The Education Role
Let’s begin with establishing a couple of definitions: Education – the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/education?s=t Broaden – to increase something such as your knowledge, experience, or range of activities http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/broaden My
Navigating Falsehoods and the Human Condition
Abraham Lincoln never said the following: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Robert G. Ingersoll, a forgotten thinker of the very highest order, never said them either, but he outlined a much similar notion in an 1884 essay on the subject of Abraham
Changing World
Education has always been a big issue for the nation, even since before the establishment of the Constitution. The national government set up support for public education almost immediately after the war for independence. The Confederation Congress passed a set of bills called the Northwest Ordinances. It could be said that these ordinances set up
Broadening the mind, freeing the spirit
Modern western industrialized society said education should be aimed towards holding down a job and the pursuit of a career. I will not argue the acquisition of a skill for a liveable livelihood, but education limited to just that is parlous. There was a time when education was a broadening of the mind and a
Preparing students for working life – Are we missing something?
There is much written about preparing students for working life and the various approaches, considerations and delivery – or lack thereof – that educational institutes have in place. The delivery and quality of careers services across the world are continually under scrutiny and it seems there are few places that get it right. Numerous
BEING ORDINARY OR BEING EXTRAORDINARY
INTRODUCTION When given the option of being ordinary or being extraordinary, which would be your choice? Without a doubt, most of us will choose the latter, “being extraordinary”. This is no surprise because human nature is such that it craves power, excellence and perfection. On first thought, nobody would want to settle for less. We
Do childhood bookshelves hold the key to both our past and future selves?
Rereading feels like a self-indulgent act. Effortlessly sifting through familiar pages, like falling into the arms of your first love or an old friend you haven’t seen in a while. You may not remember every detail right off the top of your head but as soon as you sink into the pages memories come flooding
Acquire power or be dominated in bondage
In the twenty first century, coupled with over seven billion people, nobody would want to live without power. The power we need as a human being is exhibited in different forms. I might need it to eat and another person may need it to buy a house. I remembered a moment in my past when
Find Your Self Within Stories
“She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.” Clearing out my cupboard of children’s classics several months ago (a perfect procrastination from the mountains of marking that became a permanent feature of every weekend last year, when working as a secondary school English teacher), I
Education in the Laboratory
Education, when considered broadly as any process which involves delivering or receiving new knowledge or perfecting skills, is a rather delicate topic to deal with. Defined this way, words such as ‘uneducated’ cease to exist because everyone has received some new knowledge at one point or another. E.g. We all learned to speak. For specificity,
Destiny of Power
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln. The above statement is extremely true. Power has the ability to make you feel invincible. And, it is this invincibility that can sometimes lead a man to use it for harming others. Man is
Education and Global Problems
Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, “man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” This seems to be an undeniable fact given the people who are in the chains because of religions, cultures, racial status and so on. On these grounds, people have been persecuted, subjugated, killed and mistreated. Now, to understand the difference and to
The Normal Complex
The term “Normal” according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary simply means typical, usual, ordinary, and what you would expect. Every society across the world prescribes to its citizenry what is considered normal within its context and boundaries and anyone who chooses to be different in any way or happens to be different due to
Old friends sat on a good sofa
When you’re little, adults are always promising you that the next stage in your life is the place where you’re going to make friendships that’ll last a lifetime. ‘You have to go to school, that’s where you’ll make friends’ and ‘You can’t stay inside all summer, so go outside and form relationships’ roll off their
Learning lifelong lessons from children’s literature
Full disclosure: as librarian, it’s in my job description to promote books to the students and staff with whom I work: books that are ‘worth reading’, to quote Belfast boy and literary legend, C. S. Lewis. Lewis’s works are as comfortable piled on the bedside tables of children around the world as they are nestled
Because On Those Dark Winter Days, I Still Wind Up With A Roald Dahl
Yes, I remember those afternoons when I pictured myself flying over the neighborhood on the back of a bird. Back then I would only pay attention to the height of the buildings, if there were people trotting underneath and if they wore colorful scarves. Today, when I read over the same passages printed in black
Should Education Focus on Preparing Students for Employment or Broadening their Intellect?
“For those who are less fortunate, especially those who come from less-developed countries, the question of ‘why’ would not be important because their entire life almost exclusively focuses on the question of ‘how.’” I first heard the above statement while watching an American movie. The premise surprised me, prompting me to reflect on how young