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I've been thinking about this for some time. We all want anandi to get an education which we define as her going to university and staying at a hostel.
But 'education' (formalized knowledge acquired in a closed space) need not necessarily be as effective as 'schooling' (experiential knowledge acquired in a disseminated boundary-less space).
More and more, I am beginning to see that anandi is going to have a wide range of experiences that social workers with a bachelors degree, or a MSW degree will probably not have. And perhaps all this stuff that we consider 'waste of time' is her schooling, which is an integral part of grooming her into who she will really be, and whom she is meant to be.
Maybe the way she proceeds, her own personal journey, will allow her to be twice as successful as the traditional book learning path would help her develop her personality, and her exposure.
So, from today, I suspend judgement of anandi and her lack of desire to go to university. I will cheer her on in all her endeavours.
I had this epiphany today when I went to judge a small competition at a local university. If she doesn't pursue education it is fine, she is acquiring her schooling.
8 students all had been given the same brief -- to design product X.
Each student though given the same example went through different steps differently...but arrived at the same result.
Someone said x, y, z, a, b, c
someone else followed the order a, x, y, z, b, c
another z, c, b, a, x, y
And each one had a reasoning and a logic for why they did what they did...and which order they followed based on what made sense to them in their own natural growth process.
it would be unfair to judge the steps in the middle until we actually see the final result -- which was brilliant in all cases.
So maybe anandi too has different steps to follow -- and I cannot be judgemental of her decisions any more.
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