Apparently you can learn anything anytime. With the advent of electric bulb, the earth lit up like a new bride. People started working longer than before. The primate behavior probably left us for good around that time. We are still afraid of dark, more afraid in fact. The behavior of grouping after evening and stargazing is out of window. One of the activities people did even when light went out is study. Fast forwarding the time a few decades, we have a different version of bulb, a camera and end of leather-bind books. We have evolved to work more than ever now aided with pictures. Just to spare you fast forwarding, next came video camera, televisions and oculus rifts. You know one thing that is real fun that flashed for a second in this swift montage? A view master. For those of you who don't know, you should really google it real quick. There were different flavors and unfortunately, one with a porno edition. I was lucky enough to get one with animals and pictures of flowers. The view master got an upgrade this year with android and hell yeah I intend to teach my future kids space stuff with that.
That reminded me of my own time in school. It was one of the factors in my education and that story is often untold. Well, most of my stories go untold but this one somehow became irrelevant to me. So, to start with, I was this fat guy in my school, real annoying as usual to others, and I hated mass physical training sessions (MPT). They literally do monotonous stuff. For that matter, I felt that games like cricket or basketball are monotonous. They do the same thing over and over, are not productive and you get all sweaty at the end. I had this obsession of being clean that I bathed thrice everyday. Now, sometimes days pass without a drop on my body. Ah! times. During that time of may be an hour, I'd sneak into our computer lab. NIIT gave a set of video lectures for each class in math, science and social studies. I used to see them and learn. Other kids weren't probably interested or they didn't know it even existed. The flash animations were convincing than a teacher's monologue about merits and demerits of some Muslim invasion. Now, for a kid, invasion is bad. He doesn't know change of political demographic, merging of cultures, cross-cultural learning, stereotype developments or sexual dominance of a culture. That gave me a bad taste about the entire Muslim culture.
I began isolating myself from all my Muslim friends. Somehow I felt that they are evil and due to that teacher' way of delivering ideas, they questioned themselves to the point of their allegiance and origins. This created two sets of muslims in our class. One kept their country before their identity while the other proclaimed their religion before their country. I am not gonna go in depth about what happened next. I wanna end it with a note that this point lead to the fact that I don't tell this story anymore. I learnt the ideas meant to be transferred because of those videos. I understood the power of dictatorship, the might of strength followed by the might of a word that generates idea. I quickly apologized for my behavior and social stigma that I was a part of. I continued skipping MPTs and binge watched lessons. The curiosity was at my peak. I ditched lunch breaks, toilet breaks and sometimes classes. Our lab in-charge was kind enough to let me do that. That baby step towards virtual reality evoked the creative side of me. It lead to experimentation, long lasting inquisitiveness and somehow retention of facts. That was until tenth grade.
Remember how I always bitch about my fall occurring after tenth? Well, one of the factors is that I was no longer having those videos to help me get the idea. I cringed to imagine the thing taught to me. It was not a pretty sight. Science needs demos. Now, all of my science teachers are so poor at drawing that I could bet all my chips on a five year old. I may sound ridiculous but you weren't there. There were paid sites like topper-learning or meritnation. I had even paid for meritnation where students essentially made it a dating website. Similar things happened in orkut which is a story for another time. Examfear videos were slowly stepping up by September of 2011 but not strong enough to reach me. Four years later, I am endorsing exam fear videos to all my siblings. Learning became drastically different. Kids who are a decade younger than me are outperforming me in several areas. This is not a cultural change or a social change. This is evolution taking its spin. Humankind started with pictorial data representation before alphanumeric symbols gave us any meaning. We remember what we see, just not a plain text of repetitive symbols. Colors, graphics and movement detection are hardwired into our system. Any effort to resist it may cause a certain outburst and trust me it's not good.
We have neglected our biological clock now, haven't we? I mean with increasing technology, we ditched our instincts to work at a certain period of time. We evolved to cope with darkness unless we are talking about cliche horror movies or creepypastas. We can take advantage of it by being more productive and not binge watching serials on netflix. We won't do that ourselves, We need a push, a motive or some other external help. I'll give you one. On the other side of spectrum, children are not getting their right to education. Corporate laws have literally made the education system, a business. If you have time and you tend to plug in a playlist on youtube, I suggest you go to Khan academy or thenewboston channels. Learn, be productive in your life and apply your knowledge because may be you are not as great as Einstein or your work may be shit. If you could inspire someone and if that someone created something which in turn created the next generation scientist, YOU can call yourself worthy of living a human life. The day night cycle will continue till the Sun gives up, and its about time you owned some of them.
Until next time
Horopter
That reminded me of my own time in school. It was one of the factors in my education and that story is often untold. Well, most of my stories go untold but this one somehow became irrelevant to me. So, to start with, I was this fat guy in my school, real annoying as usual to others, and I hated mass physical training sessions (MPT). They literally do monotonous stuff. For that matter, I felt that games like cricket or basketball are monotonous. They do the same thing over and over, are not productive and you get all sweaty at the end. I had this obsession of being clean that I bathed thrice everyday. Now, sometimes days pass without a drop on my body. Ah! times. During that time of may be an hour, I'd sneak into our computer lab. NIIT gave a set of video lectures for each class in math, science and social studies. I used to see them and learn. Other kids weren't probably interested or they didn't know it even existed. The flash animations were convincing than a teacher's monologue about merits and demerits of some Muslim invasion. Now, for a kid, invasion is bad. He doesn't know change of political demographic, merging of cultures, cross-cultural learning, stereotype developments or sexual dominance of a culture. That gave me a bad taste about the entire Muslim culture.
I began isolating myself from all my Muslim friends. Somehow I felt that they are evil and due to that teacher' way of delivering ideas, they questioned themselves to the point of their allegiance and origins. This created two sets of muslims in our class. One kept their country before their identity while the other proclaimed their religion before their country. I am not gonna go in depth about what happened next. I wanna end it with a note that this point lead to the fact that I don't tell this story anymore. I learnt the ideas meant to be transferred because of those videos. I understood the power of dictatorship, the might of strength followed by the might of a word that generates idea. I quickly apologized for my behavior and social stigma that I was a part of. I continued skipping MPTs and binge watched lessons. The curiosity was at my peak. I ditched lunch breaks, toilet breaks and sometimes classes. Our lab in-charge was kind enough to let me do that. That baby step towards virtual reality evoked the creative side of me. It lead to experimentation, long lasting inquisitiveness and somehow retention of facts. That was until tenth grade.
Remember how I always bitch about my fall occurring after tenth? Well, one of the factors is that I was no longer having those videos to help me get the idea. I cringed to imagine the thing taught to me. It was not a pretty sight. Science needs demos. Now, all of my science teachers are so poor at drawing that I could bet all my chips on a five year old. I may sound ridiculous but you weren't there. There were paid sites like topper-learning or meritnation. I had even paid for meritnation where students essentially made it a dating website. Similar things happened in orkut which is a story for another time. Examfear videos were slowly stepping up by September of 2011 but not strong enough to reach me. Four years later, I am endorsing exam fear videos to all my siblings. Learning became drastically different. Kids who are a decade younger than me are outperforming me in several areas. This is not a cultural change or a social change. This is evolution taking its spin. Humankind started with pictorial data representation before alphanumeric symbols gave us any meaning. We remember what we see, just not a plain text of repetitive symbols. Colors, graphics and movement detection are hardwired into our system. Any effort to resist it may cause a certain outburst and trust me it's not good.
We have neglected our biological clock now, haven't we? I mean with increasing technology, we ditched our instincts to work at a certain period of time. We evolved to cope with darkness unless we are talking about cliche horror movies or creepypastas. We can take advantage of it by being more productive and not binge watching serials on netflix. We won't do that ourselves, We need a push, a motive or some other external help. I'll give you one. On the other side of spectrum, children are not getting their right to education. Corporate laws have literally made the education system, a business. If you have time and you tend to plug in a playlist on youtube, I suggest you go to Khan academy or thenewboston channels. Learn, be productive in your life and apply your knowledge because may be you are not as great as Einstein or your work may be shit. If you could inspire someone and if that someone created something which in turn created the next generation scientist, YOU can call yourself worthy of living a human life. The day night cycle will continue till the Sun gives up, and its about time you owned some of them.
Until next time
Horopter
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