Friday, 17 October 2014

FRIDAY THOUGHTS... SMILE WEEKEND IS COMING...


Things that WE do...and More...
Educating the youth in ethics and sciences and social manners is the basis of society...
Educating leaders and preparing GOOD roll models is essential in schools...after all, they will be the next generation of leaders in society ...
At present, our culture is based on GREED and PROFIT...
Individual greed and chasing more and more ... profit engender violence... Our society is infatuated with violence... Check the sports fields and arenas...Check the video games and the TV programs... Check the movie theaters...
Greed is the motor force of society...
Chasing profits...flourishes the culture of 1% - Big Brothers running our society, to the detriment of the 99% majority... ALL the rest of us...
It has always puzzled me what people within the 1% do with the extra millions and billions that they chase and accumulate and chase for more...!
Educating the next generation in schools and in sports fields and in arenas...is ALL that we can do... But who will initiate the change...? Who will be daring enough to start an education system based on cooperation and not competition...based on group success rather than individual accolades and honours...?
The education system based on GREED and PROFIT and egocentric achievements have produced what we have now... street people, hungry kids walking to schools, poverty, and drugs and violence and racism and gender bias and sexism... and the sum total of all these...WARS...
May be it is time to change direction...
May be collective success and not individual pursuits and egocentric endeavours will be the answer... But who will instigate the change ...? Who will start the education of NEW roll models and new education paradigms based on inclusion and collective vision and success...
May be collaboration instead of competition will diminish bullying and exploitation too...
Check these out...

Ched Evans...a British bootball (soccer) player...was a success and earned in the millions... He was sentenced to 5 years in prison for raping a 19-year-old in his hotel room...
He served half of the five-year sentence and now is free...
So, let us posit the question... Should he be allowed back to his ROLL MODEL ...leadership roll in society...?
What message we will send to younger kids ... if Ched Evans is given back his boots to play... instead of having our boots to his bottom...?

 Last month running back Ray Rice was released by the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL after a shocking video surfaced showed the star knocking out his future wife with a punch in February.
Rice is appealing the suspension... He wants to go back and play a high profile roll model...
Ched Evans...will play football-soccer again...
But I will suggest ALL offenders coming from a high profile role model... background ...must be obliged to go on educational speaking tours in schools against rape and educate the kids AGAINST VIOLENCE against women...

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As a footnote and a familiar example 
I will mention the sex scandal that President Clinton endured during his presidency...
The Big brother system wants people to forget about incidents like these... But whenever I see him on TV or talking to audiences about anything GOOD... it sounds hollow... 
Instead of giving advice... Offenders like these - football players and presidents alike, should be engaged in educating the next generation to respect women and avoid violence against women be it physical or sexual...
The offenders forfeited their rights to be leaders in society... So, after the offence, they MUST be engaged in educating the next generation NOT to follow their example and while talking to the youth ... they have to bring their example ... to educate the kids better...


Check this out ...

Meet Shyanne Roberts, a 10-year-old ...

She is 10-year-old... She is promoting guns and she is campaigning against politician who are attempting to restrict guns in society...

She is participating in various events in New Jersey to inspire people to join her and promote the “right to wear arms”….She argues that restricting her rights ro bear arms will erode her freedoms... She urges people that it is not about people's rights to bear arms but rather a "lifestyle of an American!" She is using social media and twitting to promote people's "rights to wear arms..."



Of course a 10 year old will not be able to act like this without the backing of her parents...
Parents are essential in educating the next generation of leaders…and this way of approaching our education system… makes me apprehensive… thoughtful and anxious…as to what we are teaching the youth…

I had many a time…parents yelling at teachers to let their kids alone and not talk about social values to them… They said... “Your job is to teach math… So buzz off…” or “Your job is to teach History…So leave my son alone…”
And that is exactly what these parents are saying to society… We want to bear arms….So leave us alone…

But, read more...

Tristen Kurilla is 10 years old too… and he has already “killed” an elderly 90 years old women…
He is charged and he is in jail and…his parents do not want him back …
One 10 year old is advocating the “right to bear arms”… and another 10 year old is jailed for killing…
I guess the education system has failed and the parents have a large portion in this failure…
Making kids read anti-bullying novels and books is not ENOUGH…
We have to revamp our system based on GREED and PROFIT… We have to make education in a way that we will teach that everyone of us is his-her “brother’s keeper” …



Family of 10-year-old accused of killing 90-year-old woman does not want him back home: The attorney  declares...


"I killed that lady," the 10-year-old boy told a Pennsylvania state trooper, after a 90-year-old woman was found dead in the home of the boy's grandfather.

Tristen Kurilla, a fifth grader, made the chilling confession Saturday, police said, after his mother brought him to the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks in Honesdale, about 140 miles north of Philadelphia.


Now, Kurilla is being held at the Wayne County Correctional Facility and charged as an adult with criminal homicide, the Wayne County district attorney's office said. The boy is separated from adult offenders and is being constantly supervised...



The boy admitted to grabbing a wooden cane, holding it against 90-year-old Helen Novak's throat for several seconds and punching her in the throat and stomach, according to the police affidavit.


And read this...

Education is essential...
Changing the approach to education the next generation is our duty... and we have to do it properly and correctly...
Check this out...
Wonderful view and great human achievement…
The bridge is GREAT… the view ENCHANTING…
And this weekend the community will celebrate the anniversary of the building of the bridge…
EXCELLENT idea…
But the will celebrate by jumping from the bridge into the gorge…
Where is the educational value…

Maybe someone higher up…Maybe a Big Brother would have thought of basing the celebration on the engineering of the bridge… maybe its economic benefits… May be they would have initiated a competition of bridge building in schools…in the region… maybe they would have thought of inspiring the new generation…to be engineers too…

Some 450 BASE jumpers will jump off New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia, on Saturday, October 18, as part of Bridge Day 2014, marking the 35th year of the annual celebration. BASE is an acronym that stands for these fixed points: building, antenna, span and earth.
On Saturday they're planning to jump off the 876-foot-tall New River Gorge Bridge, one of the world's longest steel single-span arch bridges, to prove it.
It's the only day all year that BASE jumpers -- whose acronym stands for these fixed points: building, antenna, span and earth -- can legally jump off the bridge. The jumpers carry parachutes designed to deploy quickly, softening their landings.

thought someone would have used the occasion to come up with an educational initiative about the bridge and its value to society...to the community....
Maybe a "community leader" would have come up with promotion of engineers and economist in the community...in the schools...

Think about these and ENJOY the weekend...
Smile... and imagine a better tomorrow...
Be inspired... get involved... and MAKE A DIFFERENCE...









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