The role of schools

Image from www.twainquotes.com

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned
- Mark Twain

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What is education?
What enables a person to regard himself as an educated person?

I spent most of my life around the school environment and the most valuable lesson learnt is that there are as many opinions about what education is as there are people.

Acquiring textbook facts
Getting a degree
Getting a socially acceptable job
Keeping up with the Jones'

So, if you're a parent with kids of school-going age, ask yourself these questions:

Why am I sending my child to school?
Am I letting the school do my duty as a parent?

I'm afraid such questions go deep. If you don't understand the significance then the best thing to do now is to get re-acquainted with meaning of parenthood...

Homecoming

Photo from Google

Wifey and Faith will be back in less than an hour.

Missed them over the weekend...

Getting your news...

As part of the on-going effort to raise awareness of good news sources, I've created convenient links along the sidebar to established newsrooms. You might want to drop by regularly to wash off parochialism and incomplete truths.

Go on, take the red pill. Welcome to the real world.

ich bin ein Berliner

Source: www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,407488,00.jpg

"The East German guard asked if we had documents. I handed him my Danish cat's vaccination documents, in Danish. He waved us through."

Andreas Ramos, an eyewitness to the collapse of the Berlin Wall

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The world is closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close, like brothers
The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
in the wind of change

Winds of Change by The Scorpions

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The seeds of a climate change has been planted. It is now up to everyone who's responsible enough to ensure its growth and eventual flowering. If you were there that night, remember your Pledge.

Remember, Prison Got No Pristine Beaches

Source: http://www.voorbeginners.info/thailand/phuket.jpg

So Wifey, Faith & Mum-in-law flew off to Phuket for the weekend. Ahhh...the bliss of sipping coconut juice while lazing on a beach...

The early Friday morning flight on a budget airline was delayed for almost 3 hours due to the generic "technical fault". Managed to scare the scatological mess out from me when Wifey called up around 9+, still in Changi, to inform of the delay. Her words, over the mobile, were something like, "...delay due to a technical fault, I can see some men with spanners hovering around the propeller..."

Suddenly I lost my appetite for watching Lost...*CHOI!*

To cut the long story short, they touched down at Phuket International safely and are apparently enjoying themselves silly...

Anyway, it was quite a fun Friday. For once, meaningful discussion was carried out during the staff meeting in the afternoon. Short, sharp and relevant. Why can't all meetings be like that?

I need a holiday...

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Remember, Prison Got No Grammar Class

Got this off The Dinner Table:



Straight from the Speak Good English Movement website

Shouldn't "vegetable" be spelt without an "s"?

Meanwhile, boys and girls, eat adequate vair-gee-tay-ber to ensure smooth production of NEWater...

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Remember, Prison Got No 9-to-5 Job

Photo from Google

Woke up slightly late this morning after the previous night's attempt at watching TV. It's been so long since the family watched TV that it felt very weird tuning in. Perhaps we need to sell the TV before it disintegrates from disuse. Not much on the telly nowadays except cheesy Chinese serials.

Anyway, because of the late-start, I was travelling on a congestion-free public transport system. Funny how going to work half-an-hour late does wonders in cutting down the dreary morning commute. So maybe from now, I'll leave home 30 minutes later than usual...

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Remember, Prison Got No Cushion Sofa

Second-hand furniture never felt so good. Especially if it's an old but colourful sofa. There are many ways to sit on a sofa and it just makes TV-watching a more pleasant experience. And I WILL be tuning in on the night of May 6th while Wifey, Faith and Mom-in-law party away in Phuket.

By the way, Kenny Sia's got a pretty cool write up about his recent experience there.

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