Newton
Dr. Murtaza Hameer is a medical doctor turned teacher. He pursued his medical degree in India and did the United States medical licensing exams in the USA. He also has a postgraduate diploma in education from the University of Dar es Salaam. He is the author of the book, “Learning How To Learn: Doing well in school, college and beyond”. He is passionate about education and teaching with interests also in philosophy, science, theology and spirituality.
Isaac Newton is a household name. Even someone who has not studied the sciences has most likely heard of his name. A physicist and mathematician, discoverer of the laws of motion, inventor of Calculus and author of the Principia, a student of the Bible and an explorer on the subject of Alchemy, Newton’s range of expertise and diversity can be matched by very few from the annals of history.
Despite the greatness of this towering figure from humanity’s greatest intellectuals, the following words of his show his profound humility:
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
These words of Newton reflect a deep sense of curiosity that he had; a curiosity that is at the heart of all true learning – one that many learners lose sight of.
If you watch toddlers explore their environment, you will see burning curiosity in their eyes. They are fascinated with the world around them and they don’t hold back. If they fall down, they pick themselves up. Enchanted by everything, they keep learning and exploring. Nothing is ordinary for them. Everything around them is a miracle! We can learn a lot from toddlers.
As a student, learn to see the sacredness of it all. All you need to do is open your eyes. The words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning come to mind,
“Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
If we learn to pause and reflect on the sacredness of everything around us, we will eventually see the burning bush everywhere. Thus, like Moses before us, we will see the Divine even in the ordinary. When that happens, our learning will get fuelled from a fire that never stops burning and we will become unstoppable.
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