Teaching....do we know how?

 I have had quite an interesting time in South Korea when it comes to work. It has led me to one conclusion. Only one. We do not know what we are doing when we call ourselves teachers in this system.

In South Korea, the main reason to study hard is to land a stable well-paying job. Along with the job comes a house, family, and the ability to retire well. However, there is a sad reality. It is all based on a lie. The world that we live in does not have the resources nor the way so that people can live meaningful lives, full of peace and security. 

Looking at South Korea we can see a rote memorization-based education system. Everything is memorized. Tests are memorized. If you are poor and recalling data from your brain you will have a hard time studying here. With this fact, you then have a system where there are not enough spaces or jobs for everyone to get and then start a family. So many graduates in South Korea. Yet many stay home jobless due to this reason. The low birth rate shows that people do not feel secure enough to start families. There is also the selfish notion of wanting to "live one's own life". 

So students cram away to get good scores on tests to advance in a system where they will fail in the end. 

I have worked at eight different private education schools (insert business here not school!). Some have very similar approaches to what is considered an education. Others have radically different ways. However, because the main goal of private and even public schools all over the world is for profit you get the same results. The wealthy the real rich control who gets into the world that they live in. So all of the different places I have worked the outcome has been the same. Kids who can barely speak English, overthink what they want to say due to overreliance on grammar. Emphasis on giving empty-headed busy work to aid in the memorization of useless language patterns.

After 23 years in this industry, I  can clearly see there is no real way to really educate.  But wait! There is! Jehovah's holy word can teach us. I am now learning from it in a way that I feel will benefit me in the future. I find it helpful to realize that what I am doing now will have NO impact on student's lives.

We provide a service to give students aid in passing exams, being looked after as parents must work more to support families, and to a minor degree teach. I am not proud of my work experience in this world. I am more proud of serving Jehovah. Only our creator can give us lovingly what we need. Only our heavenly father. This system is in a dead dark, blind state!

/tata

Some pc upgrades..

 There are some things I feel are needed and with the coming holiday, I hope to complete some of these upgrades. They mainly focus on the PCs I have given to my sons to use. One PC I call it the white PC needs to be replaced. Actually, the motherboard is okay but a RAM slot is damaged and it is very cheap to just replace the motherboard. 

Right now Yogita and I use an app called Karrot Market. It is an online site where people can sell second-hand goods. You see in South Korea, there was and still is (in older generations) a stigma related to using second-hand goods. So when I would go to buy items from a second-hand shop the prices would often be too high. The owner would say that it is actually a new item.

Now, with regular people using the Internet to sell goods prices are normal now! I can get a very good 6th to even 8th gen intel-based PC for very little money. My plan is to get a tower place my gtx 780ti in it and go from there. Saves time, and money, and upkeep is super easy. While at the same time, it is very powerful. Oh, I plan to have base 16 gigs of RAM in it as well. The black PC (I name all of my computers) needs better cooling for the CPU. I want to get a second-hand AIO cooler for it. Perhaps I will make sure the fan on the radiator is new. 

I do want to get upgrades for my system namely a 1080ti GPU (1070ti looks more likely) and a better storage option. Basically, a PCI card that can house multiple m.2 SSDs. For Yogit'a PC upgrading the RAM and putting in a 1070ti is my plan. 

My main focus is the white PC as it is falling apart. During the holidays or perhaps next week I can buy a tower and salvage the white PC. I hope to have all of these upgrades in place before Jan 2024. 

We shall see. But the main target is the white PC.

/tata

six day holiday coming in 3.5 weeks

 Holidays I view them differently now. Before, I would want to "party it up" with friends around Iksan. Then rest and recover at home. I would play some online games. Perhaps, watch a few movies, and binge-watch a drama or two. Now? 

My wife was a quiet annoying (at that time) whisper "return to Jehovah!" She did say those words rather she would say when are we going to start the family bible study. Over the years her words changed to "When will YOU start them?" Finally, I did. There is a special force that Jehovah uses and Jesus stated that when two or more gather in his name (Jehovah) his presence will be there. It seems that both Jehovah and Jesus tune in when we gather in Jehovah's name.

This special force is called the holy spirit. When I started reading and praying and reading even more. Then did research and read the bible more. Things slowly started to change. I started looking forward to Mondays! Why? We changed our first bible meeting to that day. Well, I changed it to that day. I forget the reason why. Now, when I see that a holiday is coming there are no "wild parties". Ok, not all of those meetings were wild but they were not something that Jehovah would approve of. 

You see while it appeared that I was spending time with my wife. I wasn't! I was talking to and encouraging other people! I remember one man when he saw me he became emotional. He clapped me across the shoulders and said "Jemal! you always make everyone feel better!" or something to that effect. I felt good about those words. What a fool I was. I am a husband, A father. I was ignoring my wife and spending too much of my time with others. I was ignoring my sons by not sitting down and teaching them about things that would save their very lives. I was ignoring them leaving to the demons to sway with worldly ideas. They grew to hate and have a morbid fear of me. It would not have been apparent in everyday life but these negative feelings were there. Why? This is because of the choices that I had made. 

Now, I listened to the voice of my wife. Now my sons love me, there is a fear of displeasing me and in a greater far more importantly displeasing Jehovah God.

So holiday time means more family time. More bible study time. Going to a restaurant together. Going to the beach and grilling meat together. Hanging out time. Prepping food together. We have served in field service together as well. During holidays we make all of the meetings together. This excites me far more than what I used to do!

This new way allows us to keep a closer watch over the family and each other. George had a moment of weakness and we came together as a family with Jehovah's aid and overcame it.

So holidays are more time to show our Heavenly Father Jehovah God of Armies that we love and fear him, and want to follow his will.

/tata