Tariku's Droplets

Debating the Core ( P art one ) : Who should educate the future? Tariku Abas Etenesh Introduction Have you ever said or heard it claimed that the family is the core of the society? The core that presents the base for all that the individual has in turn to claim or contribute to the society? Such arguments of the role of family in the life of an individual are not more manifest in any field as in the world of education. The father of psycho analysis, Sigmund Fraud, has stated that in the life of the individual “ early foundations are critical” . Such an assertion is at least indication that the life experience that the child forms in his formative years on the planet is so important that it will be inseparably linked to his manifested wants and dislikes. It seems recognition to this fact that many educational theorists argue that any teaching and learning theory should recognize the place the role of the family in the child’s learning. Thus, in the rhetoric of teaching an...

The Story Makes the Man or … By Tariku Abas Etenesh We live not only by bread but by story too. What is created by man and in turn created man?  May you guess? Don’t you worry; I give you the answer. Well, not necessarily should you agree, though. I say it is story . Story is often created by man and in turn through time, emboldened and pronounced through misapprehension or comprehension induced repetitions and embellishments,  ultimately becomes the creator of man. This article intends to reflect on this reality citing some randomly selected stories. All that man owns and envisions has to be translated into a story of some sort before it actually becomes a dictate in life. The greater purpose for which man is put on this planet; it seems, to perpetuate streams of stories as if the universe is sequencing each head of humanity like the zeros and ones of computer codes or the genetic alphabets in the double helices.   As man is a story munchin...