Saturday 3 November 2012

Education in the service of a dream

These weeks have been very busy for me -- I have been studying a lot. I am studying Arabic, which is considered to be the main tool in what I do, because with the help of this language I am going to research the materials that will be needed for my thesis. This is how you say it academically. If I put it my own language, it means -- I need to learn Arabic so that I can work on my dream project.
It is very interesting when you have a dream. In the beginning, you think you are very very special and unique and there is noone like you. Then, you become a part of a group where people are similar and by the end of the day you understand that actually -- you are all the same.
You come to a class, let's say Arabic, and you complain to yourself that you are wasting your time learning where to put this dot or that circle, when in your head you have such a great dream!
In other words, you think that you know it all and that there is no need to learn more, you just need to go and do it. You know they say: you don't need no education, all you need is inspiration. I think there is another approach to this. I think we need education to serve our dream.
There is an incredible amount of smart, intelligent and decent people we need to learn from. There are many books we need to read and many sleepless nights to work. We need to do all this, because we have a dream!