Children's
Summer Workshop 2013 Lagro QC, conducted by the UST Faculty of Arts and
Letters' faculty development program led by Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature School on Blog
Living with Nature School on Blog
Children in the neighborhood taking time out to learn the practical uses of the wheel in modern times. Lagro QC
From
a rolling stone moving downhill, the wheel was born in man's creative
mind to become his first true invention that revolutionized his life and
his society.
From the rolling stone evolved the idea of the cart, caleza, chariot - all made possible by another discovery - animals as beasts of burden to ease man’s work.
With
wheels for transport, roads were built, bridges laid across rivers, new
settlements founded, and people moved faster and farther into new
territories.
The wheel formerly made of solid stone, then of wooden spokes, soon took various makes and forms to serve man's unending needs, this time as machine.
Machine to grind grains, to crush sugarcane, to bring up water from wells and rivers, to power trains and cars - transforming man's life into a modern world.
A modern world with the wheel re-invented into wind mill and waterwheel to generate electricity, engine that move man across and between continents.
The re-invented wheel gave man electronic gadgets from TV, computer, to space satellite, hand-held tablet, shrinking the whole wide world into a global village.
But the wheel was also re-invented for war, from guns to missiles that carry weapons of mass destruction threatening to destroy civilization and man himself.
Beauty
and goodness the wheel took shape, from stone to postmodern age,
affirming man's ideal and nobility, yet paradoxically transforming into a
monster.
The
wheel re-invented in the hands of children lies a new hope for peace
and understanding, ideas that bring back a glorious past, in colorful
toys and pure joy. ~
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Lesson Former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday
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