{"id":4269,"date":"2014-12-17T23:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:57:37","slug":"creative-secondary-school-when-dreams-take-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/creative-secondary-school-when-dreams-take-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Secondary School: When Dreams Take Flight&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"237\" src=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Creative-Secondary-School-765-75px-cropped.jpeg\" alt=\"Creative Secondary School 765 75px cropped\" class=\"wp-image-4272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Creative-Secondary-School-765-75px-cropped.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Creative-Secondary-School-765-75px-cropped-300x89.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Creative-Secondary-School-765-75px-cropped-768x228.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Experience is, indeed, the best teacher. And, it takes an even better teacher to impart its lessons to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, being the teacher that I am, try I must. Speaking to school students about the lessons I have learned is but one of those tries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I <a title=\"To Inspire and Challenge To Follow Ones Dreams\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/to-inspire-and-challenge-to-follow-ones-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke at Little Angels School<\/a> in Kathmandu in early November. Keen to continue with that, during my recent <a title=\"Enter The Dragon City\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/enter-the-dragon-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two-week visit<\/a> to Hong Kong, I spoke at four different international schools giving a total of seven presentations. You can find the video of the presentation at International College Hong Kong <a title=\"ICHK: When Dreams Take Flight\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/ichk-when-dreams-take-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creative Secondary School was another one of those four schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As at International College Hong Kong, I spoke about how and why <a title=\"Curriculum Vitae (Resum\u00e9)\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/curriculum-vitae-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I achieved academic, personal and professional success<\/a> in spite of <a title=\"Social Justice: Marked From Birth\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/social-justice-marked-from-birth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the circumstances and context of my birth<\/a>, and in the process how I learned a great deal about our world, the people of the world, life and my own self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also go into the details of what <a title=\"Buddhism &amp; Spirituality | Dorje&#039;s Dooing\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/category\/buddhism-spirituality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I believe in<\/a>, <a title=\"Projects | Dorje&#039;s Dooing\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/category\/projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what I am doing<\/a> and <a title=\"About Me\" href=\"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">why I do them<\/a>, and round it off by describing what I hope children like them do with their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy and do share below what you believe in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Creative SS: When Dreams Take Flight\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JN76sUmqpnk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How and why I achieved academic, personal and professional success in spite of the circumstances and context of my birth, lessons I have learned, why I do what I do back in Nepal, and what I hope students like them do with, and in, their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[197],"tags":[47,106,49,60,187,199,130,191,205,190,139,166,167,193,141,204,182,195,144,221],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presentations-and-speeches","tag-compassion","tag-discrimination","tag-empathy","tag-free-dorje-gurung-campaign","tag-hong-kong","tag-humanity","tag-international-travel","tag-international-understanding","tag-mustang","tag-peace","tag-poverty","tag-qatari-jail","tag-qatari-students","tag-red-cross-nordic-uwc","tag-scholarships","tag-tangbe","tag-uwc-scholarships","tag-uwcad","tag-videos","tag-world-peace"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Creative-Secondary-School-765-featimage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-16R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}