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World Book Day
World Book Day is celebrated every year on 4th March to focus on the work and contributions of authors all around the world. Celebrating the day motivates us to discover and read more books. Every year it's celebrated with a new theme to encourage people to read. This year's theme is to "share a story". World Book Day gives opportunities to people all around the world to read and share what they read. With a magic carpet of words and pages, I explored new worlds without leaving my house during the lockdown. Books are a kind of escape into places where anything can happen. It's nowhere - so it...
Don’t ask me what I’ve achieved at my age
3 Millennials Share How They Were Able to Buy a Condo in Their 20s How This Millennial Built a Multi-Million Peso Business in One Year In their 20’s and already successful entrepreneurs These are actual headlines that I saw from various publications. I see these kinds of articles all the time. The body of these pieces contain anecdotes on how young people are able to achieve marvelous feats and become successful so early in life. They are presented as these hard-working and clever people who found, discovered, or created something that made them rich. These articles are meant for those who are...
Future of Tomorrow
"The Youth is the hope of the Future" -Dr. Jose P. Rizal We are said to be the hope of the future of our nation. How is that possible if one of the biggest problem we are facing right now is education? Many children nowadays are no longer attending school because of poverty. Instead of studying, they are forced to work to help provide for their family. You can see anywhere around, children begging for money, selling sampaguita on the streets, and they are now involved in crimes. They are taught to do bad things in order to survive, and education is being ignored. It is the right of every...
Make the access to education on the internet available to everyone
Student environment protests: why we should support them
Last week, students in the UK set themselves to join a global protest which has seen children and young adults refuse to go to school on the 15th of February. The grounds for their absence can be put simply and hauntingly: why learn when, in 12 years, there won’t be a planet to practise in. This has come from recent studies that suggest we have less than 12 years before the effects of climate change are irreversible. Many parents of these protesting students have supported them, arguing that this fact counts as ‘extenuating circumstances’, a legitimate and lawful reason for pulling their kids...
My representation of the world.
The manuscript represents the importance of knowledge throughout time. The glass of water represents its importance as a basic need and actions should be taken globally for its conversation. And live is the strongest value and feeling all human beings should possess❤️😌
Coronavirus is not school and education-friendly
Are students today overwhelmed by the stress epidemic?
Every student from every university and every generation is used to experiencing stress, to the point where this feeling was almost normalised and became a part of the education experience. But if lately you’ve been feeling more down than ever and nothing about your anxiety feels normal, you’re not wrong: recent studies show that students from the current generation are on the verge of a full-blown stress epidemic that can take a serious toll on their physical and mental health. According to a February 2019 study from Pew Research Centre, a worrying 70% of young people said that anxiety and...
Discrimination in grading and too high expectations
The world gets dark but not our voice. Our voice matters. As youth, we are often unheard, ignored, but on the other hand, we are the same creatures from God –Human--. Our mental needs warmth too as well as our body’s temperature needs. Hi, I’m Anggi, 16 years old (still 15 actually but this year will be 16 ). Many people assumed me as a smart human being in the academic field, but none of them know how I suffered from their high expectations toward me. “Ah..this girl must be the winner!” When I'm not in the winner list “Oh look at that girl, she must be too overproud so that she failed. C’mon...
Interview with Alyssa Carson- 19 year old Astronaut
Alyssa Carson: Q&A Interview Interviewer- Krisha Khandelwal Interviewee- Alyssa Carson Krisha: First off, can you introduce yourself. Tell us a bit about who you are, what are your interests and hobbies, what do you do, and anything that makes you, you. Alyssa: My name is Alyssa Carson. I am 19 years old. I am originally from Baton Rouge Louisiana, I currently go to Florida Tech and I am studying AstroBiology, eventually hoping to become an astrobiologist. But obviously the ultimate goal would be to apply to be an astronaut. So just basically building the resume and doing what I can to get to...
Changing ourselves
The only way you can change the world is to change yourself, change the way you see the world, be the change you want to see in this world. There is no journey more amazing, lovely, joyful, and fun except the journey of knowing and changing yourself. This journey is the only trip that you will never forget. Start it today because when get into it you don't want to get out of it :)
Paint the world with Youth
There are many challenges we face today in the world. One of the recent obstacles to all, is the catastrophic coronavirus crisis which disturbed the daily occurrences of many of our lives. As a final year college student who has access to what strikes us as 'common things' such as internet and a laptop, the hindrances to my learning were not as dramatic. I am exceptionally grateful for everything that our teachers and key workers are doing. We are all travelling this path together with fresh knowledge and are learning as we go along. We are tremendously lucky to be able to mine our way through...
A Reminder to Remember
History witnessed many challenges and trials that the world has faced and the ongoing human approach to issues and problems in our society. If you think about it, why is the world like this? Why can't they solve issues and problems? The issues and problems we have many reasons. What are those reasons? Well, I think we will know the answer if we will begin at the top of the page. We can find and create solutions to these problems in a way that would bring happiness, peace and unity that the world really needs. One of the problems today is with regard to education. Why has this been a problem...
Fighters for Education: a Youth Project
Stop Bullying!
Hello, my friends! This is my message to you and our parents! I'd like to give some advice on the problem of bullying and I want to tell what bullying is and how to struggle with it. Bullying is an aggressive relation of children against other children, the stronger ones hurt the weaker ones. Bullying can be physical and psychological, but most often psychological. Psychological bullying is calling bad and upset words, spreading rumors and gossip, boycotting. Fortunately I have never faced such problems. But I can see how it happens even in my school. And what is worse, I understand that I...
The Click moment: Seizing the opportunity and bridging the digital divide
I was 13 years old when my history teacher showed me and my classmates the video taken during the Santa Cruz Massacre in Timor-Leste, just 23 years prior. She told us that it was because of that video that the whole world knew what was happening in Timor and pressured countries to help Timor-Leste become an independent country. As I went home that day, with those images in my mind, I asked my parents why they decided to move from Brazil (our home country) to a torn apart nation. Surprisingly, they told me it was because 23 years ago, they saw that exact same footage. This has stuck with me...
Education system failing
I believe our education system is failing. These days, it appears that it isn't much about learning. It seems to be all about tests, grades, and your school's average grade or percentage. I believe many students aren't really gaining any knowledge at all. Grades are determining how smart we are or what schools we qualify to enter. Grades shouldn't determine this at all. Everybody is smart in their own way. Some teachers only care about themselves, their reputations and how they look to their school. Also, some teachers move on from lesson to lesson without taking the time to pause and see if...
Metamorphism Education
Education was originally intended to raise a new generation with more knowledge and innovative thinking. However, the idea of "learning for test scores" is becoming increasingly popular among Asian parents. Malaysia, where I live, is a country where this kind of thinking is common. Some local parents have certain high requirements for their children's academic studies, such as achieving an A grade in subject exams. Considering the high demands of the parents, they all send their children to tuition classes that cover various subjects like Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language), English, Mathematics...
School is biased
I remember in Elementary school, we wrote an essay about whether or not school is important. Of course like every other student I decided to say yes, but now at this age I have come to a better understanding of how I feel about the prompt. Honestly from the way I see it, I'm biased about the whole thing.