This is a brand new post on this (relatively) new blog which hopefully will be a realization of one of the things that I have always wanted to do.
Learn Something New
And that is to share my life experiences so far, share the things that I found on my life's journey and tell you about big and little things I picked up along the way, many of which I wished I knew when I was a lot younger. Some might be wrong but if it is right in my eyes or in my personal experiences then at least to me it is. If you make an accounting of the things you think are right, some will also be wrong in the eyes of someone else. We cannot be right all the time, as we cannot be wrong all of the time.
Anyway, however old or young you may be right now, today is always a great day to learn something new.
And New Thing Number Two is to not be afraid to share them, it wouldn't hurt you to. In fact it may help somebody else and this could come back to you in a good way, sooner or later. (New Thing Number One I mentioned on the third paragraph above).
New Thing Number Three:
Just a month ago I finally put the pieces together and realized that people aren't born smart or dumb or anything in between.
Why?
Because this are all just labels people have come up with through their quest to explain things and put people in a box and manage them.
I now believe that generally people are just born.
We aren't smart, we aren't dumb. But we all have the capacity to be smart (at least the definition of it) or we can be stuck where we are and be labeled dumb.
What is different with each one of us is our capacity to learn or more importantly our "speed" or ease of learning.
What is wrong with our society and our education system is that we have ordained a fixed system which presupposes we all learn at the same rate of speed. Which of course, we don't.
And thus we have a system wherein by this age kids should go to Kindergarten and at this age First Grade. And we have a standard curriculum which bombards these young minds with things that they need to learn all within a certain period at a specified speed throughout the whole school year. And if they couldn't manage to "get them" at that "speed". Then we label them as dumb or even worse stupid. But they aren't necessarily so, they are just "slower" to learn. They do have, the same as everyone else, the same capacity to learn the same things they haven't but they have to do it at a slower pace.
On the flipside, there are others who are comparatively exceptionally quick to learn and do so quickly or on pace. And we label them as smart or advanced for their age. No, they just have the capacity to learn "faster".
If we can try to adopt a school system wherein kids are individually taught more to their own individual pace, then everybody will eventually be smart at whatever they may be at any given time -- and not where we wanted them to be or expect them to be at say a certain age or time.
Did I explain that easy enough?
If not, then you might need to re-read this post again. Or even read it a few more times and I'm sure you'll get everything. Some of you just browsed through it as if you were Einsteins, of course you did, you are quicker than me, as I am quicker than some others. For the rest you, you just need to re-read.
Okay, that's all for today.
School's out!
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And that is to share my life experiences so far, share the things that I found on my life's journey and tell you about big and little things I picked up along the way, many of which I wished I knew when I was a lot younger. Some might be wrong but if it is right in my eyes or in my personal experiences then at least to me it is. If you make an accounting of the things you think are right, some will also be wrong in the eyes of someone else. We cannot be right all the time, as we cannot be wrong all of the time.
Anyway, however old or young you may be right now, today is always a great day to learn something new.
And New Thing Number Two is to not be afraid to share them, it wouldn't hurt you to. In fact it may help somebody else and this could come back to you in a good way, sooner or later. (New Thing Number One I mentioned on the third paragraph above).
New Thing Number Three:
Just a month ago I finally put the pieces together and realized that people aren't born smart or dumb or anything in between.
Why?
Because this are all just labels people have come up with through their quest to explain things and put people in a box and manage them.
I now believe that generally people are just born.
We aren't smart, we aren't dumb. But we all have the capacity to be smart (at least the definition of it) or we can be stuck where we are and be labeled dumb.
What is different with each one of us is our capacity to learn or more importantly our "speed" or ease of learning.
What is wrong with our society and our education system is that we have ordained a fixed system which presupposes we all learn at the same rate of speed. Which of course, we don't.
And thus we have a system wherein by this age kids should go to Kindergarten and at this age First Grade. And we have a standard curriculum which bombards these young minds with things that they need to learn all within a certain period at a specified speed throughout the whole school year. And if they couldn't manage to "get them" at that "speed". Then we label them as dumb or even worse stupid. But they aren't necessarily so, they are just "slower" to learn. They do have, the same as everyone else, the same capacity to learn the same things they haven't but they have to do it at a slower pace.
On the flipside, there are others who are comparatively exceptionally quick to learn and do so quickly or on pace. And we label them as smart or advanced for their age. No, they just have the capacity to learn "faster".
If we can try to adopt a school system wherein kids are individually taught more to their own individual pace, then everybody will eventually be smart at whatever they may be at any given time -- and not where we wanted them to be or expect them to be at say a certain age or time.
Did I explain that easy enough?
If not, then you might need to re-read this post again. Or even read it a few more times and I'm sure you'll get everything. Some of you just browsed through it as if you were Einsteins, of course you did, you are quicker than me, as I am quicker than some others. For the rest you, you just need to re-read.
Okay, that's all for today.
School's out!