Real Education For The Real World

Real Education For The Real World
Sure, academics figure in all kinds of education. But moi is thinking more of life skills. Skills you need to cope with life. And what exactly are these skills?

Skills to communicate, skills to deal with a variety of people and situation. More importantly, skills to live your life, solve problems, think logically and reasonably to see a problem through to its solution and conclusion.

Skills to break away from the shackles of superstition, of spirits and demons, of misinformation and prejudices.

That means you need to be armed with the science and real facts of things and how they work.

Some samples:

How to keep myself strong and healthy?

Is Aids transmitted through saliva?

Would having a tumble-dryer at home (even though this would be energy consuming) help your clothes last longer because it isn't spin technology which "tends to wring your laundry to more wear and tear" as it extracts water from it?

Do body scrubs with natural plant-based products have the purported salubrious effects on the skin and body? Do they even get suffused on or under our skin even?

Does that mean if I do a uric-based body scrub that I would suffuse urea into my body? Then what happens if I swim at a pool that is chlorinated? I get chlorine radicals inside me?

How do you tell the difference between a chempedak or a jackfruit?

In fact I would even go so far as to advocate topics like these for essay-writing.

Consumption Taxes (None Of Your Fucking Damn Business) Or Whatever Taxes For That Matter
This harks back to the days of colonialisation.

But when you get down to examining its premises for even existing, there is virtually none.

What do buying, eating and spending have anything to do with the state apart from the known fact that it serves as income for some public expenditure?

And hopefully it is public expenditure spent wisely.

From Cradle To Grave - Issues Of Births And Education
Most births in the old days were delivered at home by the then mid-wives. You may argue that this is dangerous or whatever else but the fact is I don't think the requisite skills or mortality rate could be any far worse than today.

Your guess is as good as mine as to why the state or private enterprises have sprung up to take over this role.

The same goes with education. Many were home-schooled and schools were a scarcity back then. Think of all the great men and women who have impacted the world who have received little education or who have not received higher education.

If education has effected real changes in the real world, fine.

Has it?

Not Connecting
That is what I mean. The world isn't universal. Certain groups have their certain kinds of ways of life and thinking.

Doesn't matter what strata of the education or income spectrum they occupy.

There would be enough superstition, old wives' tales, rituals, traditions, unthinkable flawed reasoning and logic (which are not ruled by science or the facts of things) and so on governing their lives and putting yourself in contact with them can only spell DISASTER.

They all look dolled up in expensive branded gear, pretty, hunky, handsome, with lots of convincing style and persuasive manner plus IMPRESSIVE CREDENTIALS (sometimes) but what they spout is ALL JUST PURE RUBBISH AND HOGWASH.

What Does It Mean Being A Citizen Nowadays? Nothing Much, It Seems
If we really wanna go one step further to differentiate between citizens and naturalised citizens, perhaps the number of years of abode could count towards privileges.

And certainly a wider differential for all kinds of citizens and residents.

If I had my way, this would also be implemented in the realm of public housing. Only citizens allowed and again the number of years of abode counts.

There Are So Much More Now
More recently I have visited the supermarket and fine-combed the place after a long hiatus.

I hope it is my imagination but I can't help noticing how much more variety in food items they have now. There are pre-packed Hokkien mee and Hainanese chicken rice ready to be cooked and served up in an instant.

But it is the fruits' section that grabbed my attention most. So much more variety from more countries. There were two types of dwarf apples (one green and one red with names like Moonglo and I can't remember the other) from New Zealand, durian chempedak, Thai honey mandarins and peaches.

I had to buy them up just so to sample their exotic tastes.

And this was why I was so aghast that the rambutans and jackfruits were laying to waste at that private park.

When The Cat Is Away, The Mouse Comes Out To Play
As I blog now, Galen isn't home for the first time during my time here. Hasn't seen him since last Saturday morning and I suspect he is away for a short trip with that dude.

So I am staying home today.