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Life is an education

A.H.M Ershad Uddin

A degree does not make someone caring, considerate, well informed, and understanding towards children. It does not make them love someone else's child either.

The question is who is responsible for influencing the minds and thoughts of a developing human being? The most important focus should be a child's needs. The situation that serves the best interests and growth of child is learning in a secure and responsive home environment in which parents are the mentors.

There is nothing more satisfactory in parenthood than being able to watch the joy in your child's face as it explores the environment, creates, learns, grows and develops.

Learning with dependable, committed, caring and involved parents are important for children as they learn enormous number of things in this way. The lessons they are learning are major life lessons, which cannot be learned at any institution.

In real life children can learn all the time…

Linguistics intelligence:
Books, tape recorders, typewriters, computers, narrating, writing, public speaking, reading and debate.

Logical mathematical:
Strategy games like chess, checkers, and monopoly. Strategy games like Rubik's cube, math puzzles, crosswords puzzles and word searches. Science kits, computer software thinking games and puzzles.

Spatial:
Films, slides, videos, diagrams, maps, charts, art, telescopes, lego, building toys and optical illusions.

Bodily kinaesthetic:
Playgrounds, running, hiking, swimming, gyms, model building kits, wood carving, model clay, machines, animals, costumes, make believe.

Interpersonal:
Clubs, groups, social programs, cooperation, interactive games, group projects, discussions.

International:
Self paced study, individual projects, free time, private spaces, diaries, solo activities, hideaways, tents and secret places.

Gardner feels that children have the capacity to be a genius in at least one of these areas of intelligence, if they are allowed to develop at their own rate of readiness.

We should all take lessons from Gardner's teachings and realize that all children learn differently, at different speeds, at different times, with different interests. Nurturing individuality and encouraging creativity when it comes to education and learning is one of the greatest lessons of all.

(Student, Quranic sciences and Islamic Studies, international Islamic university Chittagong , (IIUC).

Ovijaan Bus visits Panchagarh, Rangpur, Cox's Bazar and Chittagong

Amina Najeeba Khan

WE have our dreams, we have our ambitions. We set goals for ourselves which we, as individuals, strive to achieve. But we, as a nation, dream not alone, but together, of a 'Digital Bangladesh'.

The jet-setting world around us is fast becoming a digital planet. With the development of the ICT sector, it seems that almost every society is striving to become a knowledge based society by 2015. We, as Bangladeshi, are not entirely out of that realm. But we are yet to accomplish that level, which will truly certify us as a digital country, ready to compete with the rest of the world on equal footing. We must build a Digital Bangladesh and establish a knowledge based society within 50 years of our independence in 2021. We must all work together as a nation for this achievement. We must all come together to build a Digital Bangladesh.

The reason for fixing 2021 as the target of achieving 'Digital Bangladesh' is that, by that time, Bangladesh will reach the golden jubilee of independence. Within that time, it is expected that the country will have ample time for proper positioning among other hi-tech countries globally. A country going digital means it will be an e-state.