Categories: Education & Reference

Desires in Life In Spite of the Age

Do you have something that you wanted to learn, or do you always desire to acquire new skills in spite of your age?

I got inspired to write about this reading from the comment of a friend here, Ruby, who posted about her desire to learn how to knit. I commented on her post that I knew how to crochet, sew some clothes, to embroider, but not knitting. I followed the tutorial on Youtube, but I can’t make it. Maybe one of these days, when I have time, I’ll go back to it again and learn the new skill.

Learning In Spite of the Age

This could be the reason why Alternative Learning Schools(ALS) became popular. In our country, even elders can go to school; grade school, high school or secondary level and tertiary level or college. There are night schools available for them so that people with day jobs can use their spare time after work to go to school. Classes usually start at 5 p.m. till 9 p.m.

The Alternative Schools are usually run by the government, but now I think there are some private schools opening night classes for people who are already working, or for stay-at-home mothers who could not attend daytime classes.

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The Alternative Learning School was created primarily for house helpers (domestic helpers), laborers and out-of-school youth to help them acquire new skills or educational advancement to make them qualified for other high-paying jobs. This is for personal advancement.

There are also vocational schools or technical schools that offer courses like welding, carpentry, automotive repairs, aircon repairs,electronics, massage therapy, beauty culture (hair and make up) or beauty salon skills. These courses are offered free of tuition by the government. It aims to provide job opportunity for unemployed people especially the youth to take them away from vices like illegal drugs.

Continuous Learning

Learning should never stop. Whether you are so young, or so old, you can learn something. By learning new things, you can still improve your life, or just aim to acquire new skill that will make life less boring, or you still want to be fruitful and contribute to the family coffers despite of your age. Learning how to knit is one, or learning new crafts which can be turned into an enterprising activity by your family. It can be a start for a business.

As long as we are alive and capable of doing things, even if the physical body could not do it (manually), we can use our brains, like what we are doing now writing blogs to earn something, be busy, and make life more exciting. We can still do painting, pottery, consultancy work, etc. even if we are already old to have regular day jobs.

There are so many benefits of learning new things. But the most important thing to have it is : desire and determination.




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