Incredible Beauty

Beauty is the quality that gives pleasure to the senses. People says there are five senses; vision, auditory, olfactory (smell), taste and touch. There is one more sense; our mind that is responsible for our thoughts and feelings. If something pleases our mind, it can be a beautiful thing. Yet beauty of jasmine flowers gives pleasure to our sense of vision and smell. So to the beauty of charity, it gives pleasure to the mind of the persons who are in need. 

The synonym for charity is brotherly love; one takes the troubles to help the others with border-less love, regardless of race and religion. The act of charity can be in group or individual, public or private, even it can be significant or unnoticeable. 

Who know about the insignificant charity work, but it has incredible beauty, keeps up in the innocent world? Where it is? Who are they? Yet, that is a wonderful country in South East Asia where Buddhism culture has been flourishing. Those people are they who love charity and inner peace, Myanmar people, especially those living in villages.  

There is a lovely culture that they build the stand for water pot. If you travel around, you do not need to bring water along, you can get drinking water from the water-pot stands at every village, usually located at the roadside under the shady tree. Sometimes, they build ordinary rest-house attached together with water-pot stand.

Those days I don’t want to forget

I was brought up from a village of Myanmar; the way of life there is very simple and ordinary. I attended primary and secondary school at my village. We got to enjoy three months holiday every year, from March to May.

My father and mother were raised from different villages, and we were living in my father’s village. Two villages of my father and mother are very far, and we visited to my mother’s village during summer holiday. It had been a great time for us to see our grandparents, cousins and all other relatives of my mother.

Those days in 1980s, bull-carts were the only popular vehicles for the rural families to travel around. Bicycle was another choice of vehicle, but it could carry only two persons not the whole family. Therefore, we travelled from my father’s village to my mother’s village by bull-cart which could accommodate seven family members of us and some goods. Two pitiful bulls had to carry the heavy cart occupied by seven persons and the stuff which is brought to give presents for our grandparents and relatives.

Some people believe that a sense of competition in children should be encouraged. Others believe that children who are taught to co-operate rather than compete become more useful adult.

Nurturing the mind of the children is the major important issue in today society. Most of the people especially the parents believe that their children should be encouraged to be competitive. In my opinion, I agree with the other belief that co-operation, instead of competition, should be learned since childhood so that they will become well productive individuals in the future.

Traditionally, the parents and teachers have been training the children to be ......

In many countries school have several problems with student behaviour. What do you think are the causes of this? What solution can you suggest?

Nowadays, the school teachers and University lecturers are complaining about student behaviours. The most common behavioural problems are poor self control, disobedience and less respect. In my view, the causes of these problems are due to poor parental control and environmental influences.

In modern society, people take only one child or two because.......

Teach philosophy in our schools

We share the view that introducing philosophy lessons in the classroom from a very early age would have immense benefits in terms of boosting British schoolchildren's reasoning and conceptual skills, better equipping them for the complexities of life in the 21st century, where ubiquitous technology and rapid social change are the order of the day. There is a growing body of evidence that philosophy can be of huge importance in opening up young minds. Reasoning skills and habits improve learning in other subjects on the curriculum and do not require purchasing expensive equipment and classroom resources.

The long-term imperative must be to recruit more specialist philosophy teachers and to increase the number of philosophy graduates. However, in the short to medium term we also call for the introduction of a new specialist teacher training diploma in philosophy. It is our opinion that this will make sure children from all backgrounds get the advantages philosophy at a young age can bring in terms of intellectual and social development.

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 September 2011 20.59 BST

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Many people judge success solely by material possession. However, success can be achieved and measured in other way.

Generally, people judge success by material possession. It may be true for the people who value on money and physical properties. However, in my view, success should be measured with the goal targeted by the individuals.

For the people who are materialist, the measurement on the success is definitely the amount of money and properties they possess. Power and authority is the indicator of success for some people while the highest educational achievement is concerned as success for the others. Popularity and being famous, on the other hand, is regarded as success for musicians, actors, dancers and other performers. Therefore, we should consider that someone is successful if he achieves his aim in life.

Logically, success and successful life can be achieved regardless of wealth, education, power and being famous. The ordinary man who can bring up well organised family and he himself satisfy with his family life can be acknowledged as a successful person. For another instance, the school teacher who is highly influential on his pupils and producing intelligent and smart students is really a successful teacher.

Determining success from the social and spiritual dimension, somebody who can enjoy peace, harmony, and happiness should be regarded as the successful person. The people who love to help others and devoted themselves in volunteer and charity services are really successful heroes. So to the people who highly value the morality, they will enjoy successful life by preserving good conducts and dignity.

To discuss liberally on measurement of success, it is variable among individual belief and perception towards success. An ordinary office staff who is dedicated and satisfied in his job may enjoy victorious life whereas his boss, the world richest person, is appraised as an incredible victor.