A Network of Contradictory Thoughts

A Network of Contradictory Thoughts

I love purple, I was reading some articles on the internet and it came across to me that "purple is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color." 

 
Purple is the spirit I felt in class, it was magical and full of mystery. We were uncovering the life story of Ms. Jenny. Even though she did not talk specifically about education but I sensed a lot of knowledge towards it from the talk. 

While sailing through the conversation, I made a few stops to ponder about specific ideas. Those ideas are as follow:

• do you best in all you do
• don't be afraid to create
• always go back to knowledge
• allow people to help themselves
• look at the big picture, all aspects
• stop fixing the problem and recovering, aim to prevent the damage from happening
• make something out of nothing
• invest in training and education
• take risks
• be willing to change
• be creative
• seize opportunity
• get enough knowledge to proceed
• ignore irrelevant comments
• be who you are
• work hard
• make yourself known in a friendly way
• networking
• create friends not enemies
• publicize everything
• FUN FACTOR!! as you go along

 I've been thinking about HUMANITY my country and trying to think outside the box, for some reason which is not clear to me, I really feel frustrated. Why isn't it coming easily to me? Why can't I think outside the box?

I wanted the country to have equality in all its rights. Whether you are rich, poor, with status, male, female, handicapped, child or even color. 

I was intrigued by an article I read for Dr. Jennifer's class 533 comparative gender adolescent youth called "Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana and the Gambia" where they have invested money into educational reform but when the those students got educated they had no job opportunity. This made me realize how education even though it is the backbone, the country as a whole should play a factor in reform. 

Thus, I am thinking of adding more rules to HUMANITY. For example,

• job acceptance related to skills only, not gender / age or credentials
• have opportunities for people with special needs to learn and work
• quality education

 here I was in a struggle, should people learn what they want, the subjects they want or should there be a system with many chances to improve and retake. I had another thought, instead of examination maybe there could be practical projects that apply to the needs of society, like we do as graduation projects from undergrad.

I still feel frustrated that society needs a clean slate and how come Finland was able to do it in a very short time, well because the entire society's focus was on it!!!!