Education of the heart

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all…. (Aristotle)

This approach to education is being neglected today. As we see that the main objective of the education now a days is just making children learn and remember the sallybus of text books. Education, right now, is like a race. It has been confined to grades and scores. One who has excellent score and greater degrees, is considered intelligent. The purpose of education today is somewhat different than true education.

The definition of education is to make a person learn the lesson, norms and values in such a way that they become a part of his life. The purpose of the education is to make a person learn the difference between right and wrong. A human with a pure heart will never ever try to hurt anyone or involve in wrong doings. Because he knows the true meaning of education. He will never allow himself to go against his teachings.

Educational institutions should pay more attention towards the moral education and upbringing of kids. The technology is taking over day by day which is a blessing but don’t forget that it has a dark side too. To stay away from that dark side, it is extremely important to educate the hearts. Teach the hearts not to accept evil. Make your children sharp at minds but pure at hearts.

Education means inspiring someone’s mind, not just filling their head. (Katie Lusk)

Pakistan Scholarships 2019-2020

  

By this time of the year, students are looking for scholarships. This article is about foreign scholarships for academically excellent students. These merit based scholarships are excellent opportunities for students who are looking forward to outstanding educational career.Do as much research as you can and earn more and more about schoarships.You come to know about scholarship that exacty fits your criteria.You must be very careful while choosing because you have many options.The best thing is research about that university,country and culture. Develope a check list and if it fits in your agenda then you are good to go.
For your ease we have provised a list of foreign universities offering a number of scholarships.

Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Hungary Scholarships for Pakistani Students, 2019-20

Western Sydney International Bursary for Undergraduate or Postgraduate Courses in Australia, 2019

SCUT Chinese Government Scholarship for Chinese University Program and Silk Road Program, 2019

Full VUB B-PHOT Excellence Master Scholarships for International Students in Belgium, 2019

Fully Funded Shaanxi Normal University International Student Scholarship Program in China, 2019-20

Full Tuition Islamic Development Bank Scholarship (IsDB) Programme in Saudi Arabia, 2019-2020

ECNU Full and Partial Confucius Institute Scholarship for Non-Chinese Students in China, 2019

What are you waiting for? This is the perfect opportunity for you to grasp and gain maximum out of it.

Women's Education

Today more girls than ever go to school. However, despite progress, women and girls continue to face multiple barriers based on gender and its intersections with other factors, such as age, ethnicity, poverty, and disability, in the equal enjoyment of the right to quality education. This includes barriers, at all levels, to access quality education and within education systems, institutions, and classrooms, such as:

• Harmful gender stereotypes

• Poverty

• Child marriage

• Inadequate and unsafe education infrastructure

• Gender based violence against women and girls

Gender stereotyping is one of the most harmful and problematic  barriers women have to face and overcome when it comes to education even in today’s day and age, In some cases, the education system, and particularly the curriculum, textbooks and teachers play a role in keeping alive harmful gender stereotypes, which has wide ranging and long lasting effects on girls throughout their lives from the course options and subjects they take, which influences their employment prospects, to their ability to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health.

A child learns from home, school and the environment. Hence, an educated mother has a great responsibility to educate her child properly. This is much more so in a developing nation like Pakistan

Education has no age limits

Education and learning has no age limit. This is not just a saying. This is in fact a motivation to challenge yourself. Before going into details, the very first thing that one human being should realize and keep in mind is that you are never too old to learn. Wherever you live, whatever age group to lie in, you should always be ready to learn. There is no shame in learning and educating yourself.

The importance of education in today’s world cannot be ignored. To survive in today’s world meaningfully is a bit impossible without attaining education. In Pakistan we have several barriers that deprive individuals from attaining education. Gender discrimination, poverty, lack of proper institutes and terrorism are among the main hindrances. But, despite the fact, the situation does not remain same all the time. It does change after a certain time. But it might get too late for individual to avail the opportunities which he could have done before. Age is one of those factors which makes human realize that he is now too late to get education.

My dear fellows, let me correct you here. Age is a state of mind. Age is just a number. It should never stop you from fulfilling your dreams. Whenever in your life you get an opportunity to learn something please do avail it because it is no less than a blessing. Knowledge always has a beginning but no end. One can never get enough of knowledge and education, so he must keep on learning at every stage of life.

Studying Abroad; An opportunity to get exposure

Stand out from the crowd! This is one of the most common sentences which one student comes across during his college or university life. The market is more than full of people like you, who are in search of job or are willing to start a new business .But market out there, is in search of people who are somewhat different from ordinary people, something more than usual qualified students. That something, which is missing, might be the exposure or it can be the experience which one gains in order to be highlighted.

Now the question is, How to stand out from the crowd? Well one of the relevant answers to this question is “gaining exposure by studying abroad”. Getting education abroad from a reputable institute makes you unique and adaptive to multicultural settings. You get to learn values, cultures, ethics and principles from that environment which ultimately broadens your thoughts .It diversifies your level of understanding and transforms the way you look at things. When you get a degree from foreign institution and mention it on your resume, you somehow become more attractive to employers. Corporate world looks upon you as a polished, competitive and an energetic savant ready to take over the market.

  

Coming to the hitch,

 “How can I study abroad when I don’t have enough resources”?

Well people say that it is not as simple as it seems, but I say that it is not as difficult as people say. It merely depends upon how intelligently you grasp and avail an opportunity. Undoubtedly this world is full of opportunities and we have thousands of opportunities in front of us every day but we are unable to see them. There are countless number of scholarships out there which most of the students are not aware of .It requires some research or maybe some discussion with authentic focal person.  All we need is to change our vision. If you believe opportunities are not straight in front of you, then turning upside down is not a bad option. Just start looking at the things other way round. If you are ready to do so, Congratulations! You already stand out from the crowd.

Blended Education

Blended learning, as the name indicates is a blend of learning styles. It involves classroom and online learning which diversifies the education system. This is done in order to create a hybrid teaching method by combining traditional classroom methods with e-learning. Blended education is a mixture of components like classroom activities facilitated by the instructor, online learning material (prerecorded lectures, visuals and other course related online stuff) and independent study time supported by guidance through study material provided in class.

The main purpose of this type of learning is to bring revolution in education system. It gives us opportunity to make learning better by bringing in new technologies. Students now, do not have to rely upon the traditional classroom learning. It increases flexibility as you can access your study material anytime, anywhere. It provides you access to global data related to your course that can be beneficial for you. You can save a lot of money that you spend on buying books, copying notes and printing stuff. Everything is available online which you can read, download and even edit. Thus blended learning has made our life easier by making the education system more effective and efficient.

One of the greatest benefit for some students is tracking progress online by tutors. I have mentioned the word “some students”, you might be thinking why not all students? So the reason is that there are some free riders in each group, who are on the mercy of other group members. So this is something that may disturb those kind of people because progress of each group member is tracked on online portals and is being viewed by the instructor. Thanks to e-learning system for creating the environment of equality.

Environmental Education

We have been talking about different types of education and their significance in previous articles, but today we will talk about environmental education. Environmental education basically makes you familiar with current situation and issues of the environment. It provides you with the information to take action and improve the environmental condition as much as possible.

We come across the news in our televisions and social media about how our environmental conditions are changing day by day. The environmental education in today’s world is extremely necessary because human actions are destroying the nature day by day without even realizing. It has now become very important to teach people how to make the environment better. For this we have to stop a lot of actions that we usually do without thinking about the consequences. The depletion of ozone layer, noise, air and water pollution, smog etc. are different results of human activities that are destroying nature and environment day by day. This needs to be stopped because by doing this we are just creating a hazardous world for our future generations.

The point to ponder upon is, How to save nature and environment? This is not easy, as we know that we have done drastic destructions to environment .There is always supposed to be a solution for every problem, so will be for this too. Little actions can contribute towards change in existing condition. Educate your children to keep this environment clean. Teach them to plant trees, dispose trash properly, recycle and reuse the products .These little deeds can make a lot of difference.