The Learning Pill

Source: pinterest Hola everyone Today we will try to understand yet another movie- Dead Poet’s Society, a 1989 film starring Robin Williams. It is basically a movie on the unconventional teaching techniques and it’s effectiveness. Even though the film is based on a 1980-90s London setting, a lot of the issues dealt with in the movie seem to be relevant to this day, and hence, it becomes important to discuss it. Conventional parenting    and teaching Source: Script Magazine The first part of the movie tries to explain the current parenting and teaching that the students experience. We see Neil Perry’s father forcing his son to leave his extra-curricular activities and rather focus on his academics and pursue a career in medicine. This academics-first approach is also endorsed by the teachers at their school. Their results-oriented teaching style includes teaching bookish knowledge and flushing the students with loads of assignments. Furthermore, the strict disciplinary rules ...

Source: Harvard Health Today, we dive into the concept of pain and suffering. We will discuss it's concept from a philosophical and a psychological standpoint. Introduction Source: Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy We all have experienced pain in our lives at varying degrees. It can be viewed objectively as a bodily or a mental sensation. For example, a muscle pull or a broken nail tells our brain that a part of our body has been hurt, and this can be viewed as pain. But pain can also be viewed as an emotion, a feeling, and not something physical or a part of our body. This creates a perception that pain doesn't actually exist physically, and it is rather a made-up concept of our mind to signal damage or sudden change to the body. There is a thin line between these two concepts, but the apparent philosophical paradox still exists. Our intention here is to just introduce the philosophy of pain, and we will now spend more time in analyzing this emotion/ sensation. Why is pain i...

Source: Pinterest Hello readers Today, we will try to understand the philosophy and the psychology behind a 1999 8.8 IMDb-rated movie- FIGHT CLUB. We would highly suggest to watch the movie (if you haven't already) before reading further since there are going to be spoilers (Though we have tried not to give out the major spoilers) OK, with that said, let's jump straight into it. Monotonous life- a slow killer Source: Medium The first 14 minutes of the movie describe the boring, monotonous life of the nameless narrator and how it had caused him insomnia. It seems that the narrator was slowly dying inside, and just living life for the sake of it. This monotony breaks when he first attends an anonymous meeting for people with testicular cancer. Though he did not have the cancer, this was a place where other people were going through things way worse than him, and so, this was a place where he could be vulnerable, let his guards down, without anyone judging him. And this is what he...

Protestors demonstrate against Tunisian President  Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali  in Tunis on January 14, 2011       (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra) Background: Arab Spring, which began in 2010-2011, was a pro-democratic protest which rose in the Middle East and North Africa, challenging some of the region's authoritarian regimes. It was started because the people were being oppressed by the regime and were given a low standard of living.   The protest first started in  Tunisia , and slowly created a mass movement across all of the Arab nations, with small or large demonstrations taking place in every country. Some of the countries successfully toppled the regime, while many have not only been unsuccessful, but also have had to face the consequences for more than ten years since the war stated.  The first demonstration took place in Central Tunisia in December 2010, where a 26-year-old street vendor,  Mohamed Bouazizi , immolated himself after being ...

Hello readers, hope you are doing good.  Source:  Medium Today, we take on the topic of success. All of us study for many years, work hard day and night, all of that to achieve one thing, “SUCCESS” . But the idea of success is very vague and differs drastically from individual to individual. So, we intend to discuss the various ideas behind success and try to solve the conundrum that exists. Introduction Source:  Success What is success? Here’s how Google defines success- “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.” Hmm, seems pretty accurate right? I mean, of course, it’s Google. But here is where things become unclear. What exactly is an “aim” or a “purpose”? Well, I mean, an aim can be becoming the next Bill Gates or robbing a bank one day. Both, when achieved, will result in you having lots of money and can be termed as “success”, but the consequences of it differ a lot. Therefore, we need to understand what our aim should be for achieving that success. Before we discus...

TOBIAS BAUMGAERTNER/OCEAN PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS "Flipper in flipper, watching the sparkling lights of the skyline and ocean..." - www.joe.co.uk Introduction  Amidst the chaos of 2020, a German photographer Tobias Baumgartner  captured the most heart-touching photograph (shown above). The photo shows  two widowed Fairy penguins comforting each other while standing on a rock and overlooking the Melbourne skyline in Australia. The photograph went on to win the "Community Choice Award" in Oceanographic magazine's Ocean Photography Awards. Interpretation Such photos makes us think- Where are we, as humans, heading? On one side we have humans, the most intelligent species, fighting endlessly for every bit of power and land that's available out there, and on the other side, we have such photos of animals comforting each other through their pain. Is this the future we want?  When our kids misbehave, we usually say, "Stop behaving like animals!". But photos l...