It happens with me when I'm stuck on a thought and then I find many references around it. Like I am thinking about importance of words, giving name to something etc. Sometimes ago when a friend was worried about her daughter's study...I felt learning subject is not tough for children, they understand things but difficult part with school is they have to write what they understood and that becomes tough part for most of the children.
Language is an important tool man has invented for expressions. But is there any language for understanding things? Is there any measure how much one has understood the point? For understanding something language power is must?
After sports we three return home on my activa...it's routine. From I pick up Ashna from gymnastics class about 6 km away to home it is our jolly ride. Both sings many of their favorite songs loudly, laughs and have endless talks. Nowadays they love Jodha Akbar's 'Jashne Bahara...' and remembers whole song. Once I asked do they know meaning of Urdu words used in that song? They don't. I tried to explain but they stopped me telling they loves this song as it is, no need of meaning!. They didn't want to dissect this lovely song. Okey....music generated by those words is more important than their meanings?
Found Harivanshray Bachchan's lovely poem on FB. Are our words capable to describe that beauty, that music, that love, that power?
While doing Arvind Gupta toys I never try to 'teach' science behind any toy...not to my children and not to children in other workshop/summer camp. I just like amazing feeling on children's face and don't want to spoil it making it subject of any teaching. But teachers and some parents says what is the meaning of making and playing with toys if we don't teach them science behind them?! What I feel is...when a child makes a toy, even a simple toy... he has to try different skills he already possess and in order to make it working he learns things by trial & error and that is enough.....but more than learning by heart or feeling teachers/parents like to connect it with scientific terms and when they try so I can see science & even toys becomes boring.
Yes...science seems hard field to many. Science is so much around us but still it's difficult subject! It reminds me Richard Feynman's childhood story and famous quote "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."
I think J. Krishnamurti said, when a child ask why the leaf is green then giving him answer 'it's because of chlorophyll' seems meaningless. But today how many of us explains function and importance of food to our children without using protein and calcium? Do we think, does it make sense to children or not?
Life is simple and language is great tool...then why make life complex using difficult language/terminology?
Language is an important tool man has invented for expressions. But is there any language for understanding things? Is there any measure how much one has understood the point? For understanding something language power is must?
After sports we three return home on my activa...it's routine. From I pick up Ashna from gymnastics class about 6 km away to home it is our jolly ride. Both sings many of their favorite songs loudly, laughs and have endless talks. Nowadays they love Jodha Akbar's 'Jashne Bahara...' and remembers whole song. Once I asked do they know meaning of Urdu words used in that song? They don't. I tried to explain but they stopped me telling they loves this song as it is, no need of meaning!. They didn't want to dissect this lovely song. Okey....music generated by those words is more important than their meanings?
Found Harivanshray Bachchan's lovely poem on FB. Are our words capable to describe that beauty, that music, that love, that power?
While doing Arvind Gupta toys I never try to 'teach' science behind any toy...not to my children and not to children in other workshop/summer camp. I just like amazing feeling on children's face and don't want to spoil it making it subject of any teaching. But teachers and some parents says what is the meaning of making and playing with toys if we don't teach them science behind them?! What I feel is...when a child makes a toy, even a simple toy... he has to try different skills he already possess and in order to make it working he learns things by trial & error and that is enough.....but more than learning by heart or feeling teachers/parents like to connect it with scientific terms and when they try so I can see science & even toys becomes boring.
Yes...science seems hard field to many. Science is so much around us but still it's difficult subject! It reminds me Richard Feynman's childhood story and famous quote "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."
I think J. Krishnamurti said, when a child ask why the leaf is green then giving him answer 'it's because of chlorophyll' seems meaningless. But today how many of us explains function and importance of food to our children without using protein and calcium? Do we think, does it make sense to children or not?
Life is simple and language is great tool...then why make life complex using difficult language/terminology?
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good one
keep writing..
:)
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