Self-Education : Pars Secunda

Still have one part to go before I finish Differentiation.

Will move on to Integration.

Also learning French, German and Japanese simultaneously.

Why?

"Not because they are easy, but because they are hard."-JFK.

Airman #1

This is a picture I did up in half an hour. Depicts an RAF guy with a moustache. I put in #1 in the title because there will be more to come. Place comments in Das Postfach.

Danke.

Self-Education

It is my strongest belief that self-education is vital for the learner, because it encourages self-motivation, which is a key trait a learner should have. It also gives less trouble to teachers. If everyone educated himself well before the lesson started, the teacher would only have to correct what the students did not understand during his program of self-education, and the teacher could then expand further on the concepts and ideas the pupil has learned, allowing the student to think deeper on the subject and consequently derive the greater benefit.

(Enough of the essays.)

(And now for something completely different.)

Well, I've come back from Hong Kong. It was a nice trip. Went to CAS, GFS, TST Fire Station, lots of other places. I have learned much.

Yesterday during YM, we touched on this topic of "Freedom is questionable". My goodness, this is Philosophy in Church. There could be nothing more fun. Argument, debate, logic, reason, and counter-argument.

What is freedom?

Within our worldly confines, there is none. We just move from one prison to another.

So is freedom attainable? Is it real?

Yes it is. But not worldly freedom.

The greatest freedom is the only freedom.

Armistice

It was on this day on which the armies stopped fighting 90 years ago.

Today, Remembrance Day is a day marked to commemorate the sacrifices the Commonwealth soldiers made for us.

Unfortunately, very few know of this day here in Singapore. Have we forgotten the sacrifices of Dalforce, ANZAC, the Plymouth Argylls?

Over here, people stare at you with that "is that guy gay?" look when you wear a poppy you got from donating to the RBL (Royal British Legion for those who didn't know).

A simple poppy. Small but meaningful. Yet misconstrued badly in our day and age. I envy those in the Commonwealth Realms. At least they still recognise this. What happened to the rest of the Commonwealth? Did not the British, Indians, Gurkhas, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders fight for your peace, your freedom, your lives?

We take freedom for granted today.

We fail to recognise our freedom was earned in blood.

"That freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have courage to defend it."-Pericles


LEST WE FORGET.