I Go to school

History may repeat itself , but then there are certain new chapters that you encounter in the book of life which tintilatingly surprise you . I had one of those days today , not work wise , truly speaking it was something that i never thought i could relate to.

So here goes

I planned out a meeting with one of my colleagues a mother of two fairly young children . The whole Idea behind the meeting was to learn new marketing techniques , so we went to a centre which had called her for well showing their premises and talking some money matter . It was interesting , but fairly common practice with nothing really innovative about it except for maybe the farewell gift a stress ball shaped like an astraunot. Now where the connection lies in Astrounauts and Back pain clinics im not too sure , but it was a nice gift.

Now to the more interesting part , she was to attend a seminar after that for young parents on early education , again a marketing gimic by one of the preschool schools, in fact this was a regular school . But its here that i realised what all we had missed out on . We had to pose as husband and wife to escape a double registeration fee, on top of that i found myself to be a father of a 2 yr old son. Thankfully the son wasnt there otherwise i would have had to pay seperately.

Now I remember my school days with the nursery rhymes and the counting lessons and of course the alphabets and all of that . But this was so different the strategies the methods they have changed so much .

To begin with this centre had various areas, the ADL Area ( Activities of daily Living area) the Coordination corner, the language corner, the numbers corners , the mathematics lab, the craft room, the Toys section and finally a reading room.

Here children are taught the ways to unleash the hidden poitentials within them and to tell you the truth i believe that with such an early start fotr them, they are much superior to us. I mean imagine to look at a random collection of dots on a card and having this ingrained ability of knowing exactly how many dots there are on the bloody card. If i was to count the dots it would take me bloody two minutes to do it , but these kids are taught how to read like that.

I may have gotten beyond myself here. Its probably something which us grownups will never learn cause it was never taught to us like that. I mean our number concept was completely based on the symbol for that number eg the number two is signified by 2. But in actuality the symbol 2 has no meaning of its own unless we say 2 people . 2 pencils. To these kids the concept is taught the other way round they are told this is one pencil and these are2 pencils , this is how we write 1 and so on and so forth. So finally there observation skills are horned in such a manner that rather than having to count the number of dots on the card the dots register themselves as a number itself. I mean there were stories of children knowing exactly how many plates where ther in a stachk , or rather how many cows where there in a herd, amaizing isnt it. I didnt quite have a live demonstration of this, however i was showed the card for 93 and believe me if i was to sit down and couint those dots i might not have been able to do it.

Another surprising discovery , If I was to Shout out Louds to the World " A for ................" i guess about 97 % of the responses id get would be Apple. But then a is also for Ape, Apple , Arshiya, Aligator so on and so forth. I mean why do we have a mental block to that all. A very Simple thing cos we were taught to think that wauy . I mean a was always for apple and B for ball. And then we all grew up and were told by our intelligent professors, bosses etc to think out of the box , to use latteral thinking, multidimensional thinking and so on and so forth. Now imagine if we were not restricted in the concept stage what could have been.

Another example Learning of Languages, now this is something that im really bad at, now imagine this you are born and your mom tells you ok now im gonna teach u hindi, kanadda, malyalam, Assamis etc ( Mother language) A, B , C, D . But thats not how we learn the mother language , we listen, then we understand, then weimitate write and then we read and so on and so forth. However whenever we try to learn a new language say English we end up going the opposite way, i mean writing, reading , speaking, understanding etc. You get the drift. No woneder half of the indian population does not have the propper English speaking skills , and people like Naati are teaching IELTS classes.

Ok now this Post is getting awfully long. So ill stop here but isnt it amaizing to see how the worlds progressing with 10 yr olds creating new learning devices and fuddies life us baffled by tit all.

It was nice to see these young couples taking time out on a saturday moring to invest in there kids , to learn something new , there was so much concern. Ofcourse there was also a bit of stupidity there too, and i wondered how their kids would survive , but i guess with this new learning its a whoile new ballgame and finally the human might have arrived , not bounded by collapsed outdated concepts

Some self thought , i realised that thoughh i didnt know the correct techniques on learning or behaviour therapy, I would make a good father someday, it felt good to know that.

blame it on me

The Spirit , is indistructable but the times are harder, the sinews are restless but theres no action, the seas are calm but the storms are brewing and im stranded in the middle somewhere hoping for the miracle , waiting for the final voyage to begin.

Preperation is more in the head then anything , but why then is everything a blank .

Iv been bothered for the past few days , dissatisfied and inactive it seems as if inertia as taken over me. The ability to move do something new is blocked and there i am back in the circles of existence . From a yesterday to a today to a tomorrow all a bit too similar , to familiar and all too lonely.

I wonder if its being alone which causes it or rather the inertia which cuases the being alone. It seems like i end up having the same confused conversations within my head and maybe even with the people i know. And then there is the selfconfidence faked to prevent people from peering in to close.

It seems like im loosing a battle , the battle of life and with every blow i take i fake a smile to show that im all intact. With every second a part of me is dying but then isnt thet true with most of u.

The ability to love lost , the ability to work lost , the ability to care lost and finally the vegetative mess left behind. Breathing , alive but dead , moiving acting , living but dead . Goiintg through the routine rigors of live but dead so dead inside.

The embers , the warmth , maybe its the soul thats dying but is that possibble.

Well todays been one of those days when nothing really happens but you just dont feel right. But then lets see whats to be cos after all tomorrows a new day altogeather.