Looking around...เส้นทางสู่โรงเรียนฝึกสอน

   I was curious to see a number of posts on G2K on "(road)map to ('my') school". All posts describe how to get to the author's assigned work-expience school with 'waypoints' on roads and graphic representations of some kinds.

   (See for examples: การเดินทางสู่โรงเรียน http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/562306

แผนที่โรงเรียนฝึกสอน http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/562305

เส้นทางสู่โรงเรียนเจ้าพ่อหลวงอุปถัมท์ 9 http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/562313 ...

เดินทางไปกับสายชล...เส้นทางสู่โรงเรียนฝึกสอน http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/562281 ...)

    I was reminded of my first grade 1 class exercise (yes, many, many years back then). My grade 1 teacher asked us on day 1 in class to draw a map showing how to get to school. We did have fun and learned a great deal about our community, our roads, our industries, our businesses, our public facilities, our infrastructures, our public and private buildings, wats, trees, parks, farms, gardens, water ways and bridges,...

    In short we learned about the geography of our local area in one short hour. We also learned about our friends (class mates): where they live, what their family do, and when we look at our maps in a combined way we had a bird-eye view of the area around our school.

    That was a lesson I did not forget. I used the same exercise to gather information from places, viewpoints and interests. This is a lesson in how to apply simple "geography" to gain more in-depth understanding of where I am and where I am going.

    No! It is not just a mere roadmap -- a direction to go from A to B. It is not a recipe to make a dish though many people would very much see it as just how to get there. They may think what on the way do not matter. They may not wonder where a turn-off would lead to or what other possible ways could be taken.

    My grade 1 teacher taught me in one short lesson to look around, to ask questions, to look deeper, to imagine what I cannot see, ...

And he taught me to learn from my journey from home to school! What's more, he taught me to enjoy the journey more than just to get there.