Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because their families are too poor to afford to send them to school. In India, one schoolboy is trying to change that. In the first report in the BBC’s Hunger to Learn series, Damian Grammaticas meets Babar Ali, whose remarkable education project is transforming the lives of hundreds of poor children.
Since I read this story two days ago, I’ve been mulling over some thoughts:
- What the heck was I doing at 16?
- There is no required minimum age to start changing the world.
- The hunger to learn is what all – and I mean ALL – successful people have in common.
- The best way to learn is to teach others.
- If you can’t teach 800 people, then just teach one.
- How I can be an opener of doors for more people who’d come after me?
- The richest are not those who keep most but those who give most.
- A lack of compassion and a great deal of pettiness stem from our inability to see what’s happening outside our little bubble ME-world.
- If these kids were to hear us complaining about our studies, would they throw chicken poop at us?
- Give this young man a Nobel Prize!
What are your thoughts on it? Cmon, the best comment may win a free trip with me to West Bengal, haha! I think they deserve some classrooms, hey.
Whoa! Awesome reflections, sis! Thanks for sharing with us!
wah 16 sixteen yo teaching 800 students !? when I was 8 I was stucked with playstation one most of the time.. ya I can’t agree more with what you said, it’s never too young to start changing the world;though most of us are not placed in poverty areas,but ignorance towards this is sin, each of us has to sit down and consider what’s God plan for us to help the least of these, eg get education,start business. Jesus said the poor you always have with you, but 2.7 billion ppl living on less than 2 dollars a day is simply wrong.
Woah…I feel my heart stirring again!!!
oh man, that article made me tear. :’( thks fer sharing!
Awesome blog!
I thought about starting my own blog too but I’m just too lazy so, I guess I‘ll just have to keep checking yours out.
LOL,