Science Education.

From age 7 onwards, #teaching #children to question everything they see and hear, can go a long way in developing #lifeskills . While teaching Science as an academic discipline, #teachers could inculcate a #scientific #mindset , way of thinking.

If a child is taught to #question everything, it will develop the ability to differentiate rational ideas from #propaganda, and infer the truth.

To #perceive accurately and make sense of the world, the basis has to be truth. I teach underprivileged children the method of getting ahead in the race against those who have inherited an advantage due to their #birth in an affluent family or those who have won the #ovarian #lottery as Warren Buffet puts it. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/26/well-off-families-create-glass-floor-to-ensure-childrens-success-says-study

The only way to get ahead of people who have an advantage is by developing the ability to differentiate between essential and non-essential. Only then is it possible to utilize human resources to the maximum extent possible. Just as #Maximus Decimus Meridius does in the movie gladiator. The opponent can be very powerful, maybe even an Emperor but if you know what is important, where as your opponent does not, the combat is biased in your favour. The only two conditions being are:

1. Having faith in Self
2. Not letting emotions take over the process of thinking.

Aye, who ever saw money make the man? It is man that always makes money. The whole world has been made by the energy of man, by the power of enthusiasm, by the power of faith. Swami Vivekananda.