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My name is Gabriel, I'm 18 years old and I have something to bring to the debate. Since I was 14 years old I study the most diverse economic thoughts, from Mises to Minsky, with this, I realized something, like other knowledge, macroeconomic knowledge is liberating, because you see which politicians are really defending their interests and thus facilitating at the time to choose a candidate, for example. So I think and if there is a place for debates or studies so that young people feel encouraged to understand the economic functioning of a country, so that we can more than ever fight for our...
Why Digital Striking Is Important
It has always been crucial to manifest in such a manner that we can generate an impact on those around us and our problems can be recognized. The impression that large social mobilizations generate is such that a large amount of attention is given to the problem that we want to be addressed. Our petitions begin to take space and our demands start to get heard, therefore creating the perfect situation for a positive outcome. The power that we hold in ourselves and in the decisions we take is most definitely enormous, as the various movements that have taken place through the years are perfect...
Lets learn our lessons from the garden
Walk into the garden of dreams of love, compassion, hope, and glee look at the flowers bloom on weathered earth spreading their pleasant aroma everywhere around enormous trees trying to touch the sky their roots digging below for the meaning of life squirrels and rabbits run curiously around quite restless even in their cozy little burrows route the little birds soaring over the sky free enough to look at the world from the top listen to the humming bees rambling happily wearing an immense amount of confidence observe the calmness of the frogs the patience they exhibit while preying smile at...
Is education still relevant? A discussion on the meaning, purpose, value, delivery, and funding of contemporary education.
From Aristotle to John Dewey, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King Jr., from Harry Brighouse to Sir Ken Robinson (to name a few), and from our teachers to the depths of the subconscious—we’ve all expressed our views on education in some form. It has been a matter of discussion for centuries. But why is this so? What’s all the fuss been about? And is education even relevant in today’s context? Before I go on to answer these question, we must work our way through the different dimensions of education, to get a better grip of the word itself. What is education?
7 Ways In Which Youth Can Protect The Environment
Our planet is our home, the place that sustains us; but are we living in harmony with nature? It seems like we humans have embraced a path of self-destruction, destroying the very home that shelters us. From rising carbon emissions, to deforestation and land degradation, anthropogenic activities are having detrimental effects on our ecosystems and environmental biodiversity. Not many are aware that the United Nations General Assembly had declared the period of 2011-2020, as the “Decade for Biodiversity”. We are in the final period of this crucial decade, and despite several strategic plans and...
5 Tips to do Better with Online Classes
Online school has been a real struggle for me and most of my friends. I know it is not easy to keep up with assignments, even to stay focused on what is happening during class. I could say I know exactly how you feel because that is exactly how I feel too! People may say that online school should be much easier, but when you have been used to in person school it is a very difficult change and hard to adjust to it. When you are used to having actual help and one to one personal and face to face conversations, it is much harder for you to find a way to ask for help, and harder for your teachers...
World Children's Day Challenge 2020 - The little change
We should all help to make the world a better place, to make children in a better place. My drawing shows that we can have a healthier and happier world without discrimination as we help our planet to grow.
Rights of Every Child
Every child deserve to be happy healthy and safe.. I reimagine a better future for every child... Where every child (anywhere around the world regardless of caste, gender, nationality, disability or any other status) can know their rights and can enjoy/excercise them... Where every child has the same rights to develop their potential in all situations and at all times. Through this illustration I have shown some basic child rights which are very important for proper growth and development of every child. "Right for children Rights for Future" Some of the child rights I have shown are :- ✅Right...
HUMANS.
Humans, most popularly known as the "top of the food chain", they supposedly have the best brains. Using these brains they deforest our jungles, litter everywhere, hunt for endangered animals for a sport, which leads to more cruelty towards other living beings. But I mean why do we care, we are at the top. Us humans, deforest jungles. Why? Urbanization? Medicine? Space? Toilet - paper? Nope. none of them. It's because we believe that we are superior to all beings on this planet, because we are more in number, are more smarter, have more power. Honestly, we don't. Just imagine, standing before...
The over-shoot DAY!
Over shoot Day. Earth's over-shoot day, is the time when the world's population has used the maximum amount of resources it can use on the planet for the year. This event occurred on August 22 2020. Humanity has used as much of the world's resources that we can sustainably use in a year. Basically, we have surpassed our goal for the year and now are starting to use excess amount of the Earth's resources. And guess what it's just August. Hence, this milestone is called an over-shoot Day. You might believe that quarantine is helping the planet, humans staying inside, limiting the use of cars and...
Problems with standardized testing
While taking the PSAT for the third year in a row, I began to think about "standardized testing" in a more in-depth way. In recent years, I have taken ISTEPs (my state's standardized testing), PSATs, an ACT, and an SAT. I have listened to countless universities say that they take a holistic approach to the college application reviewing process. I have studied for the many different standardized tests, but for what? What do standardized test scores represent? What is a number score worth in terms of academic success? I personally believe that there is an extreme need for a standard method for...
Intersectional Equity in the Environmental Context : Exploring the Links between Climate and Social Justice
One of the major shortcomings when it comes to public policymaking to combat issues like climate change across the globe has been the division of environmental and social issues into two different domains of interest. The myth that environmental and social issues are two completely separate and disjoint problems and environmental issues are those pertaining only to the natural world is not only misinformed, but also dangerous. It tends to view the relationship between man and wild as superficial and surface rather than elemental, essential and interconnected. It tends to foster a culture that...
History is more than what meets the eye!
"History" when the majority of people and students hear this word they only have one thing in their mind...BORING!! Well not to me and let me tell you why? History is not boring, it's the way that people have taught it that seems boring. Many people think that history is all about dates, places, rulers and wars. Whereas this just scratches the surface of what history is. History is about cultures, it's about values, it's about languages, it's about the behaviours of our ancestors and lots more. I feel that the problem of not liking history starts from school life where children are expected to...
Earthquake in Zagreb: seven months later
Let's reimagine education after COVID-19
Over the past 9 months, COVID-19 has taken the world by storm. From 1 confirmed case on the 5th of March in South Africa, to 682 215 confirmed cases on the 5th of October, we’ve lived through a time that we didn’t see coming. But along with the pandemic, a lot of issues came to light that have allowed us to learn and grow towards creating a world that can adapt to these challenges and others that may present themselves. Education is a crucial part of any functioning economy. For us to reach a sustainable, unified world, we must start with educating our people. COVID-19 has put pressure on...
What COVID-19 taught me
The year 2020 is quite a distinctive year in my life. For the past 17 years, I have never ever sat inside my home continuously for 3 weeks. I have never imagined a class room without the physical presence of the teacher. I have never imagined a long time physically separated from my friends. I have never imagined a time where I'll be hindered to breath the heavy air without wearing a mask. And now all those "never" that I have mentioned above had a reverse reaction and everything came true. For the first time in my life I heard about a virus which could be simply killed by a soap or hand wash...
Campaigning for Climate Justice in a COVID-19 world
Online classes are the future - but for millions of households, Internet connectivity remains a privilege
When over 1.2 billion children are out of the classroom, that’s bound to impact education forever. Online learning, once a trend that only tech-forward educators were striving to push, is now the norm and, as schools in most regions of the world remain closed, families need to adapt. Despite the wave of initial skepticism, online classes proved to be very effective. For millions of students, they provided a better experience than the traditional medium because it suits various learning styles and creates a more inclusive learning environment. However, online learning is not without its...
Why it’s never too late to care
Nature to be a place of relaxation, peace and carelessness, now being filled with dreads, stress and those, we should now be caring for best. The heat you feel on your skin, will be as deadly as the fire, the monkey is in. Water flowing and melting, slowly, it’s peacefulness to be a feeling, to the day it crashes down and covers everyone, in it’s deadly crown. Although you might just think ”it’s too late” the crisis is like ink, permanent, but with hard work able to be changed one date. Let this date be now, don’t hesitate, don’t get mad, simply vow, take action and agitate, it’s never too...