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I have always been surprised by our human abilities and potential and the way we use them.
I come from a small unknown (in some parts of the world) country, Tajikistan, where I have been mostly educated and grown up.
I remember my neighbourhood where we used to gather with other kids together in the house of one old woman and listen to her wonderful stories about heroes, about respect for life, having fun and love that not only went in from one ear and went out from another. But when I started going to school, during Soviet times, I started facing something completely different.
I thought: I am going to learn to be happy, learn to love and have a good life but instead we started learning physics, mathematics, and other sciences that were so very distant from me.
But throughout the years my will and the seed planted long ago by the very old woman’s stories started to grow and express itself in different forms.
I couldn't stand that school and the education that I was receiving any more. I felt I was imprisoned and as if I was among the people, but still in the lonely in the desert!
I quit the school and went to another new one which was called Lyceum.
At school, I remember now my friends being noisy, indignant to study and always skipping the classes (me too). This behavior was always punished, and we put in the list of shamed ones, but no one ever attempted to understand what the underlying message of our behavior was. We had a Silent Revolution.
Silent Revolution against the dehumanising educational system, against the lack of compassion from the teachers, against the cold general atmosphere and feeling of the school.
But now after studying at the Universities at my hometown and abroad I started to understand what I want the education to be like and what I can do.
That pain I felt in my early days of school was giving birth to my vision, worldviews and ideas that now I am burning to implement.
I am coordinating the project called "University for Global Well-Being" in my country together with the Swedish Holma College where I completed my education this year.
The school is about learning how to be happy, to learn how to have a successful life, how to live with people and with nature, to learn how to be friends, and other intrinsic values that we seem to have forgotten in this degrading consumerist society.
School is not about learning sciences, but about learning how to live.
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Shavkatjon Muhammadjonov
Human Doings and Human Beings; I was so excited to learn this thought and to go profoundly into it. It gave and opened the endless doors to the ocean of values and thoughts.
Sometimes I am a dreamer, I am a naive dreamer to neglect the evil, negative parts of the world, sometimes living is hard struggling with the hurtful truth.
I talk abstract for I think abstract now. I write of a moment. I write about Now....hard to follow the red threat but sometimes going into the mess of thoughts helps me to rest. Strange, ha?
I wonder to share, I am thirsty to learn, I search the meaning and ways to realize that. I believe that way I am in the process and situation that I am now creating.
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How true May Hawas | Sep 29th, 2003
Too much has been forgotten in a robotised. politically-manipulated age. Life, Love, Science...all need to be harmoniously balanced for a healthy education. Hope your project succeeds.
science is important Arslan | Jun 21st, 2004
I don't agree that school is not about learning sciences. Yes, I agree that school is about learning how to live but that does not necessarily mean that it's not about learning sciences. In order to live, you must know sciences. You say that school is about learning how to live with people and nature. In order to be able to live well with people you need to learn social sciences and humanities, and in order to live well with the nature you need to learn natural sciences.
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