२५ एप्रिल, २०२३

Teaching in Afghanistan.

२६ टिप्पण्या:

Gahrie म्हणाले...

Those "teachers" most likely teach nothing more than the rote memorization of the Koran and refuse to teach girls and women.

cassandra lite म्हणाले...

Students who are, no doubt, hungry to learn. If these teachers were facing the public-school students I read about this morning, whose contempt for learning is evident in their behavior toward other students and teachers, they wouldn't bother making the trip.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

Those "teachers" most likely teach nothing more than the rote memorization of the Koran and refuse to teach girls and women.

+ 1

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

Wondering if they are members of a union.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Jaq म्हणाले...

I doubt that they think twice about crossing the river in this way, or think of it as heroic. We never had boats when I was a kid, and used either inner tubes or logs to navigate crossing the river when we wanted to fish or explore on the other side. This is just a Western point of view, that the natural world cannot be navigated without expensive Western technology like Zodiac boats or Jeeps with snorkels and that not having these things is "extreme poverty."

What we are seeing here is more like a modern version of the final chapter of Siddhartha with the wise old boatmen.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

It feels like yesterday when I was a young lad staying late after goat husbandry 101 for my IED AP course. I was an eager pupil, and I received top marks in my explosively formed penetrator class. It was well known around Kandahar as a 'weed out' course, but I excelled where others flatlined. I don't care what anyone says, I'll never not feel nostalgia for my time at Western Afghanistan Science & Chemistry University (We Bomb U for short). Go Wifebeaters!

rehajm म्हणाले...

No 'state run media' tag anymore- that was quick...

What's a gold check mark? Waaaaay better than blue, I know, but is it free?

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

This really needs the side-by-side treatment showing what our teachers were doing during COVID.

Rusty म्हणाले...

They paddle across the river on the inflated bodies of little girls.
In another 500 years they will have discovered ,"boats". Also made from from their least valuable resource, women.
In another 1000 years, having mastered their preferred building material, they will begin construction of a bridge.

CJinPA म्हणाले...

I know we're supposed to think "More Hero Teachers" but a lot folks will think, "They're so backwards they can't build boats or bridges?"

Wince म्हणाले...

I wonder what they'd do if they discovered you in the 'harmless act" of letting the air out of their tyres?

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

"Those 'teachers' most likely teach nothing more than the rote memorization of the Koran and refuse to teach girls and women."

Doesn't sound too different from the "educational system" Gubna Ronboy De Santos is attempting to implement in Florida (with different "holy" and "unholy" books, of course).

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

Thank God we gave them billions in weapons and cash so they can nurture the women in their country.

Heartwarming...

Hey Skipper म्हणाले...

Whoever thinks that is a dangerous river has never seen a dangerous river.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

this video link shows

Pillage Idiot म्हणाले...

The problem is that most people did not deploy their BBC-to-normal-English translator.

"Dangerous river" means placid flowing water.

No surprise though, the BBC is equally accurate in their word choices for all of the OTHER articles for which they have a false narrative they wish to portray.

tommyesq म्हणाले...

Many of our teachers would cross a river on an inner tube to teach little boys to wear dresses and cut off their junk, that should count for something, right?

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

I’m hearing the training camps are back.

WK म्हणाले...

Where are their masks? Think about the children!

gahrie म्हणाले...

This really needs the side-by-side treatment showing what our teachers were doing during COVID.

I was sitting at my dining room table in a school t-shirt and sweatpants begging my students to turn their cameras on and do their work.

Michael म्हणाले...

They don’t appear to be wearing masks. Our teachers wear them on zoom calls.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

I was sitting at my dining room table in a school t-shirt and sweatpants begging my students to turn their cameras on and do their work.

I appreciate that. What I had in mind were the ones demanding hazard pay while refusing to return to class, the districts that took millions to upgrade air quality but didn't spend it getting pupils back in their classrooms, and the insane transactivists of TikTok. Not the guys like gahrie who did their best in this crazy state of California.

Deevs म्हणाले...

Could someone give those guys two posts and a length of rope so they can just pull themselves across the river?

n.n म्हणाले...

Afghan Spring

charis म्हणाले...

The video is inspiring and heartbreaking, all at once.