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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Found Home but Lost the World


At times, even with the fertile mind to write, cultivation of writing is narrowly possible in a place where the network receptivity is eccentrically sterile. In such circumstances, to keep that same wick of thirst constantly burning is undeniably gruelling.

I had a basketful of wish lists to accomplish at home before I returned from my studies. But my place of posting has painfully strangulated all those sprouts of my plans. Some limbs of the dreams had to be either removed or made to wither and shrink of its own, while a large part of it had to horribly sustain with the hailstorm of incessant miscarriages and failures.

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Most agonizingly, that momentum of keeping in touch with my colleagues, students, kith and kin, fellow bloggers in and around the world and some close readers, dissolved without a trace. A friend of mine has humorously inboxed me, “Which part of the world are you in?” Another wrote, “The Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has warned to remove those dormant accounts. You are on the list”.

This seems funny but if truth be told, I was strangely forced to hibernate inside the cocoon of dormancy. The feelings I engrave and the sentiments I endure, which are generally expressed in the form of words could not be shared and communicated due to the sterile technological exit ticket- the internet. 

No matter how much I wish and think positive, that same amount of frustrations engulf me. When the flames of my passion get blown off, though forcefully, that’s the time, when I don’t attempt to fuel it or regrow it, ultimately distancing from my social rings. That’s the time when I feel that when I found my home, I have lost the world.

“Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important” – G Eazy   

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Is Virginity, Male or Female?


In the 1950s, 60% of women lost their virginity to the man they were engaged to or married. Today, that figure is just 1% (Allan & Pease, 2009).

The authors of the international bestseller Why men want sex and women need love’ answers myriad of questions ranging from why men want sex while women need love to what men and women really want and, why people engage in casual sex to the mysterious truths men don’t know about women and vice versa.

In its most humorously captivating pattern of language expression, this book is a transparent bible for people longing to start a ‘perfect relationship’. There is nothing such as ideal chemistry or flawless marriage it claims but there is certainly a list of recipes that can help fix our relationships suffering from bruises or loose screws.

The most intriguing experience on reading this book was that whatsoever messages it has composed are erected on the pillar of evidence imbibed from countless standard empirical scientific researches. And as a man, I couldn’t agree more with the male instincts and masculine physiognomies they described. Or else, I might end up with a risk to fall into a column of being androgynous. Seriously.

There are so many seeds of the message I want to sow in fallow me and to my circles suffering from an irregular drought of ignorance. As much as that inspiration train moved inside me, I wanted to gift this book (and other series by the same authors) to my friends and siblings, and let that same train travel through their veins of understanding. In all, my appetite for reading only non-fiction books was never feasting and treasurable than ever. 

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So, as I unthread each message from every page I flipped, I related to how the same things are generally viewed in the face of our society. One of them was about sex – the matter we often shrink back (at least during day hours) and regard as nighttime or non-family stories.

As elaborated in this book, somewhere at some point, our society is driven by that typical set of thinking about sex. As much as men practice infidelity, the number is often graphed as a matter of pride or achievement or to reveal sexual masculinity (at least amongst men). For women surrendering to such practices – either casually or due to emotional upsets, sex with each man becomes a thermometer to measure the temperature of their character, loyalty and devotion. This means, higher the frequency - more the recitation of her name on every male tongue, and the greater risk of cataloguing as a lady with a loose character.

(Similarly), though there wasn’t any mention about virginity (in this book), I extended the circuit of sex to connect with it, after all, virginity is the first introductory question of any sex – asked either openly or secretly.   

Virginity in my narrowest sense - meaning amongst the limited circle of friends I intermingled, is largely interpreted with more inclination towards the females. I rarely heard of my male associates initiating to chat or speak of losing their virginity. Whenever we talk of sex and the related stories – the fairly common backbone of male talk in most of the get-together occasions, we clothe virginity with feminine characteristics. Men rarely regard or remember when and where they murdered their virginity. The way men talks, strangely picture how they are only concerned about the ‘reproductive purity’ of the women. Perhaps, we boys are brainwashed with the ‘Defloration’ pornography where they expose only young girls ending their virginity by men who have already lost theirs a long time ago.

Virginity in its broadest explanation should not be gender-biased. After all, once we trade off and unpack our reproductive organs into a sexual market either for reproduction or passing our genes, in both the genders, it loses its glamour of rigidity, tarnishes its first-time appearance and distorts the geography of its general outlook, if truth be told.  

There is nothing to feel aghast. Neither should a reader assume me going crazy or transforming into a sexual expert. Nor am I claiming that I know everything about something. I am none of these. But as Allan and Barbara explain so succinctly why men and women see many of the same things differently, we really need to school our thinking.

And one way to do so is by flirting with this book. It really provides orgasm on the outlook of sexual education and relationship issues so perfectly, that we understand human relations from a very new set of vantage points.

“Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower” – Karl Kraus

Monday, November 2, 2015

Welcome to the Hormonal Industry

When one of my childhood friends who was planning to tie the knot with his recently met girlfriend asked me to prescribe him an ideal marital prescription, that popular Hindi saying flashed on the screen of my mind. 
This is what I texted to him: 
Shaadiwoh ladoo. Jo khayee bachtai. Jo Nakhayeewohbe bachtai.

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“Don’t you remember that I am deaf to Hindi language? Please elaborate” he wrote.
“Why do you ask me? I am neither a matrimonial pundit nor a conjugal guru”.  

A vacuum of correspondence ensued. A few minutes later, I wrote:
Marriage is like ladoo. Those who eat, they regret it. Even those who don’t, regret. 
Hope you will now not ask for any subtitles to understand it. I responded.

But before he replied, I texted again: “Welcome to the Hormonal Industry”
“Ha-ha. What is this now? This phrase surely demands a Dzongkha subtitle”, he retorted.

And this is how I vindicated my statement:
Research has revealed that the level of oxytocin is very high when people fall in love. In men, their testosterone level reduces while the amount of oxytocin increases. This flux in the number of sexual hormones ensures faster bonding.

Marriage guarantees a legal and social covenant between two people in love to be together, and that’s the reason why many feel anodyne to travel this road. Marriage is the result of these hormones secreted in our bodies. Marriage is thus, a hormonal industry!

Once we sign a contract with this industry, the whole template of our habits, perceptions, and management patterns, transform completely. Those old unpleasant habits that we're unable to let die young during bachelorhood either receives renovation or get refurbished or fixed with the gentle breeze of so-called love. But to fix these square pegged habits into the round hole of marriage is always regulated by the buttons of understanding, compromises, sacrifices, devotion, and convictions. In some essence, marriage is rather like a literary journey. The winds of unprecedented euphoria of love that exists can transform us into a poet to write touching poetry or an artist to craft haunting lyrics of melodies.

While even on brief separations, that aching pain enables us to understand the gravity of emotional torments suffered by John Keats, P B Shelly, and John Milton as expressed through their poetic limbs. We can feel exactly the way they did due to the madness of love. One intriguing thing about marriage is that it is a journey of two amalgamated souls with a single dream, sailing to survive the unexpected storms of life together. 

We learn to divide responsibilities and multiply devotion and sentience. As time mellows and as we grow old together, the love also matures into a form of a child - which then becomes the fountain of happiness, a lifeline and purpose of our life.

More importantly, as we marry, we are promising the child to bestow a set of parents (a father and a mother), a commodity that is rarely found in pairs, in the market of our society today. 

On a scientific note, studies have revealed that married people live longer than single, separated, divorced or widowed people, and that, the mortality rate is low for almost every disease. In the words of Allan and Barbara (2009), ‘marriage has its good side. It teaches you loyalty, forbearance, tolerance, self-restraint and other valuable qualities you wouldn’t need if you had stayed single.

However, marriage is the easiest subject in the world to have an unlimited opinion about, but perhaps the bravest thing to do. Bravest because we have to ensure it functions throughout the span of one’s lifetime. It is not proportional to the number of years. Sometimes, even the concrete ship of a marriage that journeyed 50 years suffers a cruel fate of wreckage within a fraction of a second. When it is on a rough note, which is a result of a screw gone loose, that fury has the ability to transform that once-upon-a-time-heaven into a living hell.

Basically, the voyage of marriage is surprisingly full of ups and downs which is the consequence of some hormones which make us fall in love. It is not a default mode of human living that always produce the hymn of ‘happily-ever-after’ stuff.

As I say it, you must understand that there is no single thread of thought to dampen your love. If you don’t marry, people might doubt your sexual orientation 😃 or those with a biological education might even doubt a hormonal disorder.

Socially, marriage is generally considered proof of true love. Embrace it to sail on the cruise ship of your life with your love. Experience, the hard teacher as many say, would teach you on the way of your life.

Good luck, buddy.

“Thank you. As you said, let me start the engine of my marital ship and live every moment of it. Buddy, please note that you are included in the important guest list among those local leaders and business honchos during my wedding ceremony”.

But days folded to weeks and weeks aged to months. I called my friend to ask if he has forgotten to invite me for being his marital therapist some time ago.

But what can the world expect, when he has already experienced those marital hiccups even before he got married to his beloved. 

His so-called beloved has become the kept woman to one of the local business tycoons.
And now the question is, how did he lose his beloved to be somebody’s kept woman?

“You have two choices in life: you can stay single and be miserable or get married and wish you were dead” – Bob Hope.

Monday, October 19, 2015

Silent Treatment



One of the most acerbic truths about getting into a very transparent relationship is when we realize that we are pushed towards the end of a friendship spectrum. At such disposal, it leads to the shrinkage of usual communication to the bare minimum creating a huge vacuum of silence. When this silence is further silenced by silence, it becomes a beginning of an end for a small and beautiful journey of friendship, and compromises thereafter, are rarely promising. 

Such an awkward episode in the smooth sail of friendship rather stonewalls the intimacy and the one who is at the receiving end of the cold-shouldering business suffocates with incurable emotional abuse and rejections. 
 
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This demand-withdrawal pattern witnessed in the cloth of any relationship, by some marital therapists and clinicians, refer to as Silent Treatment. It is one of the cheapest forms of passive-aggressive manifestation of contempt, disapproval or discontentment because by prolonging silence, it conveys undying grievances, resentments and ignorance. 

When one willfully breaks the bridge of normal conversations with a malicious intent of isolating and insulating from the circle of cordial rapport, due to an involuntary resignation, the victim on the other side becomes defiant and vengeful. As long as it is painful for the giver to withdraw, it is even more terribly hurting for the other to accept rejections and stepmother treatment of insignificance, without really understanding the reasons for the stony mysterious silence. In this situation, both the giver and the recipient are tortured and emotionally punished - one for attempting to withdraw and the other for being unable to withdraw. For this vicious cycle characteristic, few psychologists have even called it ‘manipulative punishment’.

Silent treatment tests boundaries. It forces one to demarcate its own territory. This is risky especially for the relations written on the white paper of trusts and faith. While there are both healthy and unhealthy ways to settle the dust of misunderstandings, it is important that both ends come to a midpoint to make things more transparent. In fact, both have to accept speaking about the silence directly instead of avoiding silence with silence.     
      
“The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained”- Anonymous.

Friday, October 16, 2015

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is an act of stealing someone’s ideas or piece of work without any acknowledgement and crafting it as one’s own. It can happen either through deliberate cheating or by accidental copying. But this theft of ideas is classified as unethical and equated to be a grave academic fraud. 

In many countries, people who violate and commit such immoral and dishonourable acts are even subjected to potential legal implications. Such immoral drill of taking someone’s ideas furtively is intolerable in many parts of the world and that even a little spark of coincidence can at times ignite a huge inferno of plagiarism row and allegations, and subsequently hit the headlines.

However, plagiarism is still one omnipresent academic epidemic that is generally witnessed and easily received in most of our educational institutions and publications. Just because there is copy and paste buttons, we take advantage of the technology to dishonestly sneak someone’s work and present it as ours. School magazines and newspapers have reportedly been the brothels of plagiarism for many of our students. And project work is no exception.

 
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The allure of plagiarism does not fade in the genes of our students. But as an educator, such practice of unlawful duplication of someone’s knowledge has a big reason to worry. Technologies that have transported the information to the doorstep of our fingertip has largely made this generation, complacent and lazy to invent their own ideas. 

Chronic procrastinators don’t agonize because they are highly acclimatized with the climate of accepting plagiarized work to be safe and permissible. As a result, they submit themselves to be ardent players of systematic plagiarizers.

In the schools, in the event of doing class works, either intra-corpal (copying the work from their mates) or extra-corpal plagiarism (copying the work from external sources such as websites or books) is highly rampant. And during the publication of magazines, few switch to self or auto-plagiarism (resubmitting the work that was previously submitted).

While many of our students are aware that plagiarism is detrimental and inappropriate for them to practice, due to the silent approval of our culture, its business is still mushrooming. It is certain that in the schools, the teachers are responsible to watch this practice die young because such practice focus more on “product than the process”, but our parents at home are also equally liable for such lapses. 

After all, educating our youth is the shared responsibility of both the parents and the teachers and not simply the teachers alone.

“Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page”- Mokokoma



Sunday, October 11, 2015

An Alter Ego while driving?

I am certainly uncertain whether it is apposite to tag this article, either loosely or raggedly, with the term Alter Ego.

But with the support of my immature limbs of linguistic competence, I am connoting an alter ego to a set of different behaviours demonstrated in some situations by any people. And particularly this time, in the spotlight of driving.

Having been driving to the workplace from my home on a daily dose of 14.9 miles, by now, I felt like I have neared the equatorial belt of South Africa. And at the end of this academic tenure, I will be drenched with a feeling that I conquered the journey to the world in 180 days.

Well, I am not vomiting any resentment of my life here. 

Ever since I learned how difficult it is to acquire human life, I have put an end to this life of impermanence to weigh against each other. So basically I don’t equate my life with others because at best, I am reminded of a story, where a shoe-less man stops complaining about his life after seeing another without a leg. Our living has to be sustained in our own ways, as destined or fated, big or small. Hence, in my mind, this mundane observation does not stir any startling wave of inconvenience.  

But what is so bothersome is a kind of drama I witness frequently on the theatre of the highway performed by our professional motorists. Even those licensed drivers (sorry taxi drivers), who are mandated to protect themselves, passengers or pedestrians by following a set of transport guidelines overlook the traffic rules once they journey into a network, unreachable from the web of traffic cops. Due to this roadside fuss, driving in the early morning, breaking the silent virgin of the dawn is the only thing I wish for, as I don’t suffer from any hiccups of driving wrath owing to the limited interface of other vehicles. But by evening, on my return, I would witness the identical incidences of driving transgressions on different screens of the motorway. 


A case in point as soon as the temporary roadblock caused due to widening works is lifted, vehicles from both directions would speedily marathon to access the highway. In such circumstances, that mandated traffic rules of vehicles moving down the hills which should otherwise hang on, in favour of vehicles climbing the higher gradient, becomes a forgotten traffic decree. 

Consequently, all the vehicles remain congested and jammed, almost immovable even by an inch. The only space to free from such mobbing is to fly off the cliff, which nobody would be willing. That is the time where drivers from the opposite directions would pursue to indoctrinate one another to give the way, by describing a promising heavenly space even when there is just a hell inviting gap. No drivers would accept their miscarriage of traffic guidelines, but instead, argue their purpose of driving as complete urgency and exigent.

Sometimes, my wild imaginations can’t fathom the risk involved in getting thronged on our highways. Just imagine the situation getting stuck during monsoon season (but only the eyes washed with tears can see better) on a narrow highway pitched on the mountains, especially at this time when our roads are prostituting with copious road widening works. 

With sharp cuttings that are landslide-inviting above, and itching baldness of cliff below, my goodness! we can almost define impermanence within that short moment even without the help of any spiritual guru. Such surreal feelings aggravate our already unenlightened minds to blame one another for ensuring a situation of a particular sort, almost trespassing on personal matters, and thereby lose our focus in solving the road problem.

But if we do not invite our ego to take the driver’s seat, immense of those minute problems can be halved or solved by manifold. This trend of wild driving is biologically defined, undergoes silent mutation in our society today. Although it takes place in a very subtly negligible and almost unnoticeable manner, they are yet equally deleterious and worrying.

“Take it easy driving- the life you save may be mine” – James Dean

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Green School in Green Bhutan


An English teacher once gave her Class 7 students to write an essay in their half-yearly examination:

“What do you understand by Green Schools in Green Bhutan?”

The concept was gaining popularity at the time, thanks to Bhutan’s Education Minister actively promoting it. 

As I read through one of the essays, a particular student’s words caught my attention: 

“Green Schools in Green Bhutan means schools having lots of green trees and plants. All schools look the same with green vegetation” 

I could not help but smile 😊. The student was not entirely wrong – green schools should indeed have trees, plants, and a clean environment. But was that truly all there was to it? Something seemed to be missing.

To be fair, I could not entirely fault the student. Many educators themselves were still unsure about the true essence of the concept. How could we expect our students to understand something when we, as teachers, had not fully grasped it ourselves? That moment marked the beginning of my decision to explore and explain the real meaning of Green Schools in Green Bhutan—something everyone, even young students, could understand.

 

What is a Green School?

A Green School is not just about trees and plants. It is a school that nurtures both nature and people. It teaches students to grow not only in knowledge but also in kindness, respect, and happiness. Bhutan introduced the Green Schools in Green Bhutan concept to make education more than just studying books. Schools should help students become good human beings while also caring for the environment.

This idea was led by Thakur Singh Powdyel, Bhutan’s former Education Minister, and was inspired by His Majesty the 4th Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck. It became a key part of educating for Gross National Happiness (GNH).

But what exactly makes a school green? There are 8 important aspects or areas:

1. Natural Greenery 
2. Intellectual Greenery
3. Academic Greenery
4. Social Greenery
5. Cultural Greenery
6. Spiritual Greenery
7. Aesthetic Greenery
8. Moral Greenery.


1. Natural Greenery – A Clean School

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Natural greenery is one of the most important parts of a Green School because it shows how the school looks and feels. A school with natural greenery is clean, fresh, and well-organised, with beautiful trees, plants, and flowersThere is no litter, plastic waste, or anything harmful to the environment. It is a peaceful and healthy place where students and teachers respect natureA school like this does not allow things like graffiti, junk food, or substance abuseHaving natural greenery helps students learn values like cleanliness, love for nature, peace, and responsibility for the environment.

Imagine walking into two schools:

· School A has trees, gardens, fresh air, and students taking care of the surroundings.

·  School B has trash on the ground, no plants, and dusty air.

Which one would you feel happy in? Of course, School A! 😁 

Natural greenery makes a school feel peaceful and healthy. 

We can promote this area by: 

·    Planting trees and flowers around the school.

·  Keeping the campus clean – no plastic, no litter. 

· Setting up a waste segregation system for recycling.

 

2. Intellectual Greenery – Growing Our Minds

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Intellectual greenery is about growing our minds and understanding the real purpose of coming to school – to learn and think wisely. Just like a field needs to be prepared before planting crops, our minds need to be open and ready to absorb knowledge. If we do not fill our minds with good learning, they might be used in the wrong way.

A strong and healthy mind should welcome good ideas, moral values, and creative thinking at all times. If we do not challenge ourselves to learn and think deeply, we miss out on the real benefits of education. Intellectual greenery helps students develop focus, confidence, curiosity, determination, and the ability to think and make good decisions. 

Here is an example. A teacher asks, “Why do we have seasons?”

·  Student A just memorise the answer from the book.

·  Student B – thinks critically, asks questions, and tries to understand deeply.

The second student is growing intellectually green! We can promote intellectual greenery by: 

·   Encouraging students to ask questions. 

· Organising debates, discussions, and creative learning activities. 

· Teach the value of curiosity and critical thinking.


3. Academic Greenery – The Love for Learning

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Academic greenery helps us appreciate the knowledge and ideas shared by great scientists, philosophers, educators, poets, and authors. Without this, we may not truly understand why subjects like science, economics, and literature are important. These subjects are filled with valuable ideas – science helps us understand the world, literature adds meaning to life, and economics teaches us how societies function.

By valuing the hard work and discoveries of thinkers from the past and present, we keep the spirit of learning alive. Academic greenery ensures that knowledge is passed down and continues to grow for future generations. Students who embrace academic greenery develop qualities like appreciation, curiosity, respect, gratitude, and joy in learning.

In a school where academic greenery is strong:

·  Students do not just study for exams; they enjoy learning.

·   Teachers make lessons interesting and fun.

·    Everyone values books and knowledge.

We can promote this dimension by:

·    Have a library full of interesting books.

· Encourage project-based learning, not just memorisation.

· Invite guest speakers to share real-life knowledge.


4. Social Greenery – Living in Harmony

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A school is a place where teachers and students, with different skills and knowledge, come together. It is more than just a building with classrooms and sports fields; it is a community. In this community, people share different values and beliefs, and they learn from each other every day. They understand that working together peacefully and depending on each other is important.

When one person succeeds, everyone feels proud, and when someone faces failure or illness, the whole team feels it too. Through social greenery, everyone works together to face challenges, no matter how big they are. This part of greenery helps build values like unity, teamwork, cooperation, peace, and harmony.

This means, 

·   If a student falls down, others rush to help. 

·  If a classmate is struggling in studies, friends tutor him or her.

· Everyone respects teachers, staff, and fellow students. 

 

We can support this greenery by:

·   Organise group activities to teach teamwork.

·   Celebrate differences – respect all cultures and backgrounds.

·   Teach kindness and empathy through real-life examples.


5. Cultural Greenery – Respecting Our Traditions

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Culture is a way of showing who we are and how we do things. It is expressed through how we dress, speak, believe, pray, or follow traditions. 

Since culture is full of beauty and creativity, schools should provide a space where students can explore and express this creativity, grace, and uniqueness. Today’s learners will be the ones to protect and carry our culture in the future. A student with a strong cultural understanding will be respectful, feel connected to their community, and follow social norms. This cultural foundation will help our youth practice and pass on traditions in a way that keeps them alive for future generations. The values shaped by culture include identity, personality, character, uniqueness, individuality, peace, and harmony.

In a culturally green school, 

·  Students wear national dress (Gho & Kira) with pride. 

· Schools celebrate traditional festivals like Losar and Tshechu

·  Students learn Bhutanese values like respect for elders.

We can further enhance this component by: 

·   Teaching traditional songs, dances, and arts. 

·    Encouraging students to speak Dzongkha. 

· Conducting storytelling sessions on Bhutanese legends.

 

6. Spiritual Greenery – Believing in Something Bigger

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One thing that unites all Bhutanese, especially as Buddhists, is the shared sense of spirituality. We do not see ourselves as complete beings on our own. Instead, we are grounded in the belief that there are countless other beings – superior, powerful, capable, and more intellectually gifted than us – whose support is essential for us to achieve our dreams. This way of thinking reminds us to nurture and strengthen our spiritual connection. Spiritual growth helps cultivate values such as belief, relationship, strength, dependence, trust, hope, faith, devotion, loyalty, sincerity, conviction, confidence, and reliance.

For example:

· A student learns to be grateful for food and prays (tomchoe) before eating. 

·   Students follow the practice of respecting the natural elements such as mountains (by not climbing), trees, lakes, and rocks as having life. 

·   A school organise mindfulness meditation to promote inner peace.

We can encourage this by: 

·Teaching kindness and compassion (elements of Buddhism) through simple acts. 

· Encourage reflection and gratitude exercises.

· Organise meditation or quiet time.

 

7. Aesthetic Greenery – Seeing True Beauty

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An aesthetically aware student can easily tell the difference between appearance and reality. Technology has made the world seem to turn ugly into beautiful, fake into real, and uncertain into certain. However, with a sense of aesthetic awareness, we can truly recognise what is genuinely good and beautiful, while rejecting what is unnecessary and unworthy. This understanding helps us focus on doing the right thing and stop engaging in immoral actions. Such awareness brings values like truth, honesty, integrity, appreciation, insight, admiration, pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, and fulfilment.

With aesthetic greenery: 

· A student appreciates a beautiful sunrise rather than just taking a selfie.

·  Art and music are part of daily school life.

Aesthetic greenery can be promoted by: 

·  Encourage art, music, and creativity.

·  Teach students to appreciate beauty in nature and life.


8. Moral Greenery – Knowing Right from Wrong

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Moral awareness is like a compass that helps us know what is right and wrong, good and bad, or true and false before we make choices. It helps guide our minds to grow in kindness and do good things, which makes us better members of our community. Kids with strong moral values are good at making decisions, thinking clearly, and understanding what’s right.

Examples: 

· A student returns a lost wallet instead of keeping it.

· A school discourages bullying and teaches fairness.

Moral greenery can be improved in the school by: 

· Teaching students about ethics and responsibility. 

·     Rewarding honesty and good behavior.

·     Organising discussions on moral dilemmas.

 

The key message of this concept is that education is not just about books – it is about growing as a person. Through this idea, the dream is to make our schools in particular and the world in general, a better place to live. 

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