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Home Quarantined in Bangladesh
My Name is Shamayel Shahir Khan. I live in Bangladesh and I'm 15. The situation is going worse here day by day. We are home quarantined for almost a month, we don't have anywhere to go. I miss all my friends and relatives. I miss all my teachers and school. It's so boring that I can't even explain. We all are doing online classes while staying at home. I hope that this COVID-19 vanishes and we all go back to our normal lives. Please pray for us.
Learning at home in Bangladesh amid COVID-19 crisis
I am a boy of SOS Youth House Khulna and live in a boarding house at Dhaka. I am studying B.Sc. Engineering in Textile in Daffodil International University. Just after the completion of my 2nd year mid-final exam, the coronavirus (COVID-19) started breaking out in different parts of the world and my university got closed. Our boarding house was made vacant. Then I returned to SOS Youth House Khulna to stay for some days to keep myself safe from Coronavirus. We have been home quarantined for 16 days. At the beginning, I was stressed thinking about my study. Our teachers declared that our...
The Night School That will Give You Motivation
INTRODUCTION The year is 2016, and I've got some time after taking my High School Exam. During that time I got a chance to know more about my society, surroundings, and culture. I started work at a night school as a paid volunteer, and the first thought came to my mind, most of the students are senior to me. How will I deal with this sort of problem? When I talked to the principal of that night school, he encouraged me a lot and said to me “you can teach other students, as they are more senior and maintain professionalism”. My night school students are not that serious about the grade, but...
Let's build a learning society.
In today's time, the whole education system got collapsed by the grisly palm of Covid-19. So to fight against this unexpected moment and the sine dine situation, to keep up the quality of education there need to hold the education system. Non-formal education, a stream of education system is a way to bring possible changes in the education system. There are a good number of student mostly in the developing countries like Bangladesh already dropped out of the school because of several issues (e.g. Financial issues, Health issues). So to bring back to education, Non-formal education can work...
Transition From Online To Physical School
We are still having our online classes and can't wait for physical school to start. But, many are still anxious to start school in their respective institutions as they see so many people after so long, especially introverts like myself. I would feel a mix between nervousness and relief. I would be relieved as I can finally go somewhere other than my house and nervousness as I have to interact with so many people. But, I would rather have physical school than online classes any longer. Why? I get super bored at home. It's miserable, in all honesty. You're locked away and your only source of...
I want our education system to be different
Why do we always have to write essays on patriotism, perseverance and value of time? What is the point of memorizing the sets of dates in history? What good is there knowing about grasshopper's digestive system? These are the questions stuck in my head for a long time. I am that type of person who never likes the conventional education system. I can't just break myself out of it, if I could I did.
We aren't learning
I like solving problems of mathematics and physics on my own. When I get stuck on a problem and after brainstorming for a long time I finally solve the problem, I feel real pleasure. I remember telling myself not to give up while solving calculus problems. But I didn’t hate them. I like studying at my own pace. Without having pressure or the thought of an examination in my mind. I like doing it slowly, to the point it doesn’t make me feel bad. But all my good feelings go away when I remember that I have to sit for an examination. Studying is not for enjoying. Studying is for getting good...
How to Continue Learning a New Skill
I used to believe I would not be able to learn the skill I wanted to learn, that I would stop in the middle of the journey. I'm still not sure I am totally out of the hold of this vicious (and not to mention, unproductive) pattern of thinking, but by now, I have listed up ways to deal with it. Or at least, to quieten it, if annihilating it is outside my capability. Whenever I find some new skill to be important, hence worth putting on my list of new skills to be learned, I tell myself it won't be a waste of time. As it happens, I'm the sort of person who can't be guilted into anything other...
The lessons we learn outside classroom
School, classrooms, textbooks - all are produced for education. But the fact is, they cannot provide us the real education. Rather, what we really learn is from outside of textbooks. We learn from our inside, our life, our family,the outside world, even storybooks and movies. I can give you some first hand example about it. Do you know how I learned communicative English? My textbooks and teachers weren’t able to teach me communicative English. I did well in the examination, but I didn’t have the courage to read and write English. My fear about English language started to decrease by sending...
Reimagining the education system
So often I complain and whine about our education system. You may think, why do I do it? I am going to college despite being a differently able person, so I should be thankful and I shouldn’t be whiny. If that is what you think, you are so wrong. You may think, when the world is facing a real learning crisis and a large number of children cannot even go to school, why am I still concerned about the wrongs of today’s education system? Because that is what I am facing myself and I think that is also a real crisis. When so many others are fighting to make education accessible and inclusive, I am...
This Dreadful Educational Crisis
Education is a powerful tool and the antidote to a flourishing nation. Education has empowered minds and taken individuals to beautiful destinations. Each and every individual, regardless of beliefs, socio-economic status, race, sex, gender etc. is worthy of the gift of Knowledge, for which the currency is Education. This world has witnessed a delightful rise in the literacy rate and the enrollment of children and young people in school and higher education. This change was much desired and very welcome indeed for developing countries like mine, Bangladesh, in South Asia and beyond, where...