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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.
International Indigenous People Day: Empowering Indigenous People
Today is a day entirely for celebrating indigenous people and their unique cultures. Indigenous people lead very amusing lives, something I'm quite keen about as personally, I find learning about cultures quite fascinating, especially under-represented and unheard ones. Indigenous people have quite a history too, dating back thousands of years. They are found in over 90 countries, speak 4000 of the world's languages and there are 476 million of them in this world! In my country, Bangladesh, the main ethnic groups are Garo, Marma, Shawtal, Monipuri and Tripura. Bangladeshi tribes either have...
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...
A Passion I Found Quarantined: Art!
Art has become a new passion of mine during quarantine. Before, I never really considered myself good at art, but rather writing, writing anything like stories, poetry, essays, reports etc. I've always been a writer and history fanatic at heart, but never an artist. However, despite being good at writing, I was and still am a person discovering myself and home confinement has made me discover that I have great potential for art too! I'm not going to lie, I used to have admiration and slight envy at great artists. I always wanted to be great at art too, but my gut told me I could never be and I...
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...
Bangla New Year!
Bangla New Year's, popularly called Pohela Boishakh is the first day of the Bengali calendar, just as the 1st of January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. Pohela Boishakh is celebrated every year on the 14th of April and is a national holiday in Bangladesh and some parts of India. The greeting for the occasion is Shubho Noboborsho (শুভ নববর্ষ), meaning Happy New Year! Pohela Boishakh is celebrated since the time of Emperor Akbar, hundreds of years ago, when he introduced the Bengali calendar. The festival is celebrated by Bangaldeshis with a riot of colors, from the...
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.
United Nations Day: A Day Of The World! 🌍
Happy UN Day! This is a day that marks the historic establishment of the United Nations, an organization that keeps hundreds of countries in harmony. This day is important as it celebrates global euphoria and everyone can represent their cultures and traditions, make agreements, meet with other countries and more! I am proud of the United Nations for all they are accomplishing and trying to accomplish. They are giving youths (like myself) a chance to raise our voices against the innumerable injustices that plague the globe today, such as climate change, gender inequality, poverty, education...
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...
Let's celebrate International Mother Language Day
Today is International Mother Language Day, one of my favourite days to celebrate. Though now it’s an international day, the origin of celebrating the day is our country – Bangladesh. As a Bangladeshi, I have grown up reading the bloody history of the 21st February, 1952. At a young age those historical events didn’t touch my heart. History is something I don’t really like, and as I say to myself, everything becomes a bad thing when it gets into academic textbooks. So, the history didn’t really reach my heart. One day I was given a book to read. It was a historical novel. At first I didn’t...
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...
The Miracle of Language
Every language has its own beauty and miracle. Only a native user can feel them. Language is such a miraculous thing. A language isn’t just words and alphabets. It isn’t merely a medium of communication. A language carries the culture. Translation cannot be the substitute of the original work. Translation is an option. Because for one person it isn’t possible to learn so many language and without translation we would be deprived of getting to know so many beautiful works because of the language barrier. Thanks to translation, I got to read so many famous classics by foreign writers, I could...
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...