SYMPOSIUM OF THOUGHT

  If we don’t allow creativity, we will keep stagnating.  Education is derived from the word ‘educare’ meaning to bring up. ‘Educere’ which is the bring out, ‘bring forth what is within. It is bringing out potential and ducere means to lead. It is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. Many scholars have defined Education as the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another. Therefore, to educate refers to “developing the knowledge, skill, character of…” and so we can assume that the purpose of Education is to develop the knowledge, skill, or character of a learner. Socrates argued that educational success is to rouse people to be fine and good in human civic virtues. He argued that education should be about drawing out what was already within the learner. This implies that education does not bring a new thing in a learne...

  Informed quality decisions will always save you from the cry of regrets. Every day, every hour, every minute, every second a choice is made from enormous events available. Our choices may sometimes involve leaving others aside, but nevertheless, we make them. These choices form a significant part of our decision-making. Some decisions offer solutions to complex everyday problems while others offer solutions to simple everyday problems. Problems are events that usually appear to have no immediate clear path and so require a pause. While pausing, we think through the problems and choose between the available ways that lead forward (solutions). The choice we make becomes the decision we have made leaving others (like the economics scholars would call this the opportunity cost; the alternative foregone when the choice is made). This implies that making decisions involves leaving other choices aside. Life is made up of the decisions we make. This is because, for every decision mad...