Friendship Elementary School: Education & Earthquake

Video and photos of my presentation at Friendship Elementary School in Codorus Township in Pennsylvania where I talked about the education in Nepal and the recent earthquake.

Video and photos of my presentation at Friendship Elementary School in Codorus Township in Pennsylvania where I talked about the education in Nepal and the recent earthquake.

Education is for freedom: freedom from the constraints of having to think, having to subscribe to attitudes and having to behave in ways dictated by the culture and society one is born into (whether in Nepal or elsewhere); freedom from the socioeconomic shackles one is born into if born into a low socioeconomic context in countries like Nepal and others.

There is no such thing as the meaning of life. You make life meaningful by the way you live.

The embedded video is that of the presentation I gave at Thames International College in Kathmandu. I talked about dreams, humanity, compassion, international understanding, peace and making life meaningful to a small auditorium full of students doing their undergraduate studies in Social Work.

What makes for a successful life is one lived following ones dreams, one lived in ones own terms, instead of one lived following others.

The power and privilege of education, the power of compassion & humanity, and how what I am doing now is in line with the UWC mission and values of international understanding and world peace.