Things Unsaid

The world - a lousy place i live in.

People - they r very unlikeable!

Job - something i do to earn money! honestly!

Children's parent - self righteous human beings, who think that their child can never do anything wrong!

Books - sheer wastage of money

Reading - an outdated hobby, fit for introverts and a pure wastage of time!

Embroidery - girls who are good for nothing do it.

Writing blog entry: copy, paste, borrow, cheat, or ask someone else to write for you!

Human Relations: 'Valid until you fall off the ladder of success'

Cell phones - loss of hours-money

Jewelry - something that consumes half of my pay check.

School - Factory for manufacturing engineers and doctors, not human beings.

Goal of Education - to make best inhuman humans!

Knitting - an almost extinct hobby in Pakistan.

Food - base of the 80% of world problems

Creativity - something that people are obliged to end in you.

Success - easiest way of making enemies

Pakistan - the largest state in the world, despite innumerable efforts people have not succeeded in gulping it down.

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Innovative Teacher

During the teaching of scientific subjects a teacher must learn to be innovative. It is wrong to think that all children are destructive and can not be trusted. The truth is otherwise. Children are constructive, happy and energetic human beings. They like to be trusted and taking responsibilities. In the same way people in the surrounding environment of the children are not as vice as a teacher may think.

Trying out new techniques, in itself, is not a bad idea, neither any sensible person would deny it. Trying out techniques that fail, again and again is a bad idea. Any teacher should be able to reflect upon his/her teaching methods. They should be able to point out the weak and strong points of their teaching and overcome his/her weakness.

An innovative teacher is one, who is never scared to learn. Innovative teacher is ever ready to experiment with established teaching methods and techniques. An innovative teacher is open to criticism and use it positively to eradicate his/her weaknesses. (s)he is always learning and trying out new things. Teaching and experimenting with the new techniques and mechanisms.

During the training class teachers came up with the following arguments against using new teaching methods.

There is a general conception that children in our public schools are destructive and unaware of using various equipments used in science teaching, because of the backgrounds they come from. I think that the reason behind this concept is that teachers never try new methods with them and never trust them with anything. If a teacher take students in confidence and tell them about the value of equipment and the practical they are going to do, kids will very careful with the handling of the equipments and other  resources.

The other reason that most teachers give is that they have got limited time to complete mammoth syllabus. I think that by involving students in research and teaching process, teachers can lessen their burden and make the syllabus interesting and easy for children to understand. it only needs dedication on part of the teacher to think of new ideas.

There is a lack of resources and limited resources are kept safe, was another argument. A teacher should be able to design and collect his/her own resources. A teacher has every right to reason with the custodian of the resources. Trust should be built and expectations should be met to get access to those resources.

One last and general advice for teachers is to use effective time management routine. Instead of wasting time and chatting or doing personal work they should concentrate on teaching and making it easier for themselves and their students. All great teachers did not wait for someone to come and wake them up or make them do great things. They took initiative themselves and started changing things.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

May be this was the first nursery rhyme that i learnt, but today i found out that it was way too beautiful than i realized. here i m posting it for everyone to read it and enjoy!

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky.

When the blazing sun is gone,

When he nothing shines upon,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all night.

Then the traveler in the dark

Thanks you for your tiny spark!

He could not see which way to go,

If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep,

And often through my curtains peep,

For you never shut your eye

Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark

Lights the traveler in the dark,

Though I know not what you are,

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

Jane Taylor

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
 By (the Token of) Time (through the ages), 
 Verily Man is in loss, 
Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds,
and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth,
and of Patience and Constancy. 
                              
                                 -  translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali 




I was watching the news on TV about the match fixing fiasco that is created by our very dear cricket team and they show this very cute picture of Salman Butt, our captain and Muhammad Aamir and I realized that if proven guilty they have ruined their careers!!!!! "Man is in loss!"


yesterday, we were having a discussion in school as to why people sell off their faith? how much money do they need to spend good life? is honesty has come to nothing? and I said that, "i think that in order to spend good life, I only need 50 lacs. I could go back to university and get my home repaired and that's about it." 


One of my colleagues said that," S 50 lacks are not much, we at least need 25 million to spend a good life. you can't even buy a house in 50 lacs." 


But now i think that it all depends on how materialize your world is! my good idea of life is to have enough money to get good education and have food three times a day on your table. Obviously if i need to expand my view, living in the new modern home will be  a good idea and driving a car of new model every year and going to foreign countries on vacations would be sooooooooooo nice. but there has to be a limit!!!!! and we have forgotten our limits!!!


and that is why we are in loss...

Realization - first step to change

Teacher: I know all of you are very intelligent! [humorously] or anybody has objection?
Me: Sir, I have objection.
Teacher: I know you would have!


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convo ended, we carried on with the teaching. this is the part of conversation that took place today in the CI [Curriculum and Instruction] class.

now the question is why do i have an objection on being called intelligent?
because if we don't realize the truth about ourselves, we'll never change ourselves. and the truth is that we are far away from being intelligent. [individual cases ignored]
 Most of my colleagues during the sunday class come to enjoy themselves, or to get a degree for sake of a rise or teacher's allowance. there are no people there who go there to learn. and i mean seriously learn. our ground realities are far from being ideal! we cheat, we lie, we copy, we waste time, we joke...  but we don't realize any of that.

I love thinking of myself as intelligent, I love to hear it from people, but when i assess myself, I have got a long way to go before I finally end up being intelligent. this realization will help me change whatever is wrong in me, whatever needs improvement, whatever needs to be corrected, avoided, deleted, updated...etc etc. but if i run away from realizing that i have got room for improvement, i'll end up being mediocre, just average not intelligent. so i don't want my teacher to call any of us intelligent!!!! we are in for "Rude Awakening!"

Something Beautiful

there is so much going on around me, personally, nationally - internationally, i am unaware of :#, that we miss ramzan as we used to have it in yesteryears, all the festivity and religious zeal and happiness it cause, i heard this naat on tv someday back and i just love it - wonderfully said. i hope that you enjoy it too :)

Politically Aware - Humbug

today - as it happened kids were off due to the flood threat and teachers and librarians were free to do whatever they wished. and i went to my favorite spot that happens to be library. there a heated conversation was going on about the condition of flood victims and what everybody is doing about it and what is the duty of government in this situation and what it is not doing [we tend to keep an eye on what government is not doing, rather than on what it is doing]. everyone was busy criticizing all the people for not doing what they ought to do and then i jumped in!!!!! [that i gather is my favorite thing :P]

and i asked them what they are doing???? and everybody started counting what they had given in donation [i admit that i personally have not done much apart from praying :#]. then i invited everybody if they are ready to come along and we'll go and help people out there or stage a protest against government... and guess what??!!! everyone backed out.... nobody was in. easy to criticize, hard to demonstrate. we all are very much into politics and government policies when it comes to talking, we would read newspapers, magazines, listen to endless minutes of news, hear programs and read reports on what is going wrong but we will not do anything to change it practically... we are so comfortable in this situation that we don't even think of doing it. "It is easier to sit in your cozy drawing rooms and criticize government, but very hard to go on road and tell them to correct it."

one of my colleague's father was into MRD movement, a long time back and he was sent to jail for being into, i asked her what is wrong with us, we still know what's going on, and we still can differentiate between what's right and what's wrong, but why we don't do anything anymore? she simply replied that we don't have courage anymore. "we have gone deep inside rabbit's fur :("

and then as i was reading reader's digest Asia, i came across a regular feature called "heroes"  in which people write about other people who they think have done something outstanding or are doing something outstanding, this hero was a woman who went to homes of old people or orphanages to help people there along with her family and friend. she would give them packets of food and other items and instruct her volunteers to ask them what do they need, and they will try to bring it next time, no matter what it is!!!! WONDERFUL. and it made me wonder, why can't i be like this? why can't i do this? why do i wait for abdul sattar edhi to show up? why can't i be what abdul sattar edhi is? why blame others for not doing enough for my people? why don't i do it myself?


ANSWERS ANYONE?????!!!!!


We live in a country where
Pizza reaches home faster than ambulance and police.
Where you get car loan @18% and education loan @40%
Where rice is Rs 90/- per kg but sim card is free.
Where the shoes are sold in AC showrooms but vegetables, we eat, are sold at footpath.
Where lemon juices are sold with artificial flavours while dish wash has real lemon.
Where our leading class is having fake degrees while educated youth is jobless.
What a NATION!


WE CAN CHANGE THAT, IF WE WANT TO...


P.S this post was written on 24th august 2010, but i was unable to post it due to electricity problem.