Education What Is It Really?

Wiki:
Education is the learning of knowledge,information and skills during the course of life.

m-w.com:(Don't really help much)

ed·u·ca·tion

1 a: the action or process of educating or of being educated ; also : a stage of such a process b: the knowledge and development resulting from an edprocess education>2: the field of study that deals mainly with methods of teaching and learning in schools

What's ur meaning of education... leave ur comment in the tag box i will update this post from it...

On A Serious Note... Here's the story of Shay

First of all I would like to thank Quan Hui for sending me the email, I'm rather touched by the story and would like to share this story with you all....

I hope you get your own meaning of the story. And we hope we can have a Shay day.

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Two Choices What would you do?.....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one.. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice? At a fund-raising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: 'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?' The audience was stilled by the query. The father continued... 'I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.' Then he told the following story: Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball... Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps. I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.' Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball. However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher. The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game. Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first! Run to first!' Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled. Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!' Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. B y the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball . the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home. All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay' Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third! Shay, run to third!' As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!' Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team 'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'. Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day! AND NOW A LITTLE FOOT NOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces. If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the 'appropriate' ones to receive this type of message Well, the person who sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the 'natural order of things.' So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process? A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them. You now have two choices: 1. Delete 2. Forward May your day, be a Shay Day.

FA CUP : Derby County v Man United highlights....

In a great show by a non-full strength Manchester United Side, United pulled off a 4-1 victory over Derby County.

Man Of The Match:

BBC's Man of the match was Ryan Giggs, which I think was well deserved pulling of several key passes today almost all the attack in the highlights I posted Giggs played a part in it. Not to say later on in the second half where he took on 2 Derby defenders, 35 and still soaring ...

Few United's Young Guns had a great run out as well, namely Gibson, Foster and Welbeck.

Gibson:
Gibson's goal was a well timed volley, which was quite sweetly executed.
Gibson also show his passing ability with his involvement in many attacks that raided the Derby Defence. One to look forward in the future.

Foster:
Foster what can I say, okay he allowed a goal. But I think he can't do anything about that goal either.
His distribution was on show tonight, but sadly the linesman rained on his parade by disallowing Ronaldo's Goal. His a nice and quick throw towards Giggs who flicked the ball on to Ronaldo. But He was ruled offside. A great throw by Foster none the less.
And he cast away any doubts of his shot stopping ability, when he palmed away Teale's Stinging effort from about 30 yards out. Very Good save... Shades of Schmeichel....

Welbeck:
Cameo subsitute performance... But a good performance, capped his apperance with a nicely finished goal. When he curled his right foot effort past Bywater. His finishing style reminds me only of another United Legend.... Solskjaer...

Perharps Solskjaer is imparting some skills to this young prospect....

United's Dream of a 5 Trophy Season Comes 1 Step closer... Lets hope for the best....

United's Next Match:
vs Fulham 19/2/09 0400hrs(GMT+8)

Can United Make The Clean Sheet Record 14 ?

When u are bored.. u photo shop... haha

Well maybe I'm really too bored ... okok simply d0ne with layers function in photoshop...

Ever wondered ??

What on earth is the difference between a LCD & Plasma Tv ? hahah

Well...

Plasma displays use a matrix of tiny gas plasma cells that are charged by precise electrical voltages to emit light and create the picture image. In other words, each picture element in a plasma TV display acts as a miniature light source.
More information on plasma displays is available at How-it-Works: Plasma Display Panel.

Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) panels - work by trapping a liquid crystal solution between two sheets of polarized glass. When an electric current passes through the liquid crystals, the crystals rotate causing a change in the polarization of the light passing through them in response to the applied voltage. This results in more or less light passing through the polarized glass to reach the face of the display. LCD panels do not generate light - rather they filter or subtract light produced by a backlight source to create the image on the panel surface. More on this in our guide How-it-Works: Liquid Crystal Displays.

So what on earth is the difference.... when it comes to performance ?

Black Level Performance:
The gas cell structure within a plasma display is such that there is no light leaking between adjacent cells (or pixels). This enables a plasma display to display deeper blacks than its LCD counterpart.

Plasma vs LCD: Viewing-angle

The viewing angle represents how far one can sit on either side of the screen away from the center, without experiencing significant deterioration in picture quality – mainly because of color shifts and reduced contrast.

Plasma televisions typically have a better viewing angle than LCD TVs. Plasma televisions holds the black levels from off-axis, while LCDs lose black level intensity more as the off-axis angle increases. This usually occurs at around 100 degrees, i.e. at some 50 degrees on either side of a line drawn normal to the center of the screen.

Wondering which you should buy?!

Just check the details of the video i posted below... it would help you make your decision.

Sources:

http://www.practical-home-theater-guide.com/plasma-vs-lcd-TV.html

Hahaha saw this funny vid... on face book

Man Utd Champions League Collage...

haha a little late... but still kinda of getting addicted to do collages... haha

Westham v Manchester United

Man Utd Back on Top after a 1-0 win over Westham, Manchester United's 6 1-0 Victory in the last 8 games, and Edwin van der Sar stretches his record clean sheet to the 13th game.

What is the world becoming to ?

OKAY I juz read an news article about 33 year old woman having reportedly had eight of her own previously frozen embryos implanted, despite already having six children under the age of eight, also reportedly conceived by in vitro fertilization.

Come on acting god is one thing... but acting so irresponsibly ...

She has 6 Children already... this procedure should be only given to those medically certified that they have problem conceiving children and are childless.

Is this moral ? She now has total of 14 Kids to take care of ? How is she suppose to feed them all ? I even if they are millionaires you still need to spend quality time with your kids ? can she manage all 14 ?

Not to mention conceiving so many children at once leads to premature birth as mentioned by the news article. Not to mention the possible side effects of premature birth to children ?

They might have just ruined the future of those children....