/1. If not for school, What do you want to learn today? I ask myself. No syllabus appears. No lesson plan unfolds. No fear of exam arises. Just the quiet hum of my own thoughts, and the vast, open field of the world. *** /2. Why bother learning, if I am free to explore this world, To learn how different birds sing, and how the sun rises. To learn which berries are poisnous, and how to build my shelter. To learn how humans live, and how human die. But then I realize, I just used the word "learn" thrice. Learning should be connceted to the very core of my life. Because to live is to learn. *** /3. But what is all this time for, and how should I live my life? Guess it helps to look at how other people did it, what have they all been working on? Lots of pretty cool stuff actually. So that through learning, I can figure out what am I learning for. And I can direct my own life. *** > Don't let school interfere with your education. > -- (commonly attributed to) Mark Twain