Oct 2, 2026 · 26 min · 7 segments
This season of Change Narratives looks at the social units that shape people: families, communities, institutions, environments and experiences. Education is one of the biggest. For many of us…
And then that exposed me to the technical understanding of learning through my studies in educational psychology, because those were courses I offered.
And then I later did, much later, I did a diploma in educational learning psychology.
Now, before the learning psychology focus, something happened when I was teaching, something very interesting.
Of course, in every class of learners, you have those who are performing very well, impressing the teacher and everyone else, and those who are somewhere within the middle, and yet you have that group that is a concerned population.
And his case was so outstanding that I could remember during one of the open days, it was an embarrassing question to ask, but I had to ask his father the question, was there ever a time when your son was medically diagnosed of having any brain related issue that would have made it difficult for him to process and understand learning materials.
Before presenting that question, I had to like apologize and let the parents know that if this wasn't absolutely important, I would not be asking.
You just be like, no offense.
Yeah,
please.
It is a sensitive
professionally as well so he told me no that there was never um such a diagnosis now i asked that question because i needed to clear the air at this point i was trying to determine what is real as far as um it um determining effectiveness of learning is concerned what are the real factors and what is just a myth right what what is true and and what is just um a kind of fable that people have come to believe or a myth that people have come to accept which is not participating if you're looking at the evidence like which does not feature if you're paying attention to the evidence so i um happened so the next um sequence of event was that i visited this boy's home he's um he had a family member who had returned from abroad and i had to visit the home just kind of being friendly with the family and i found this boy this same student i was asking the father whether he had a medical diagnosis about his learning capacity i found this boy playing ps3 with his elder brother now okay yeah ps3 is is a is a sophisticated game.
He was
playing this game with his elder brother very competitively, such that his elder brother, who has had all these experiences abroad and many several years ahead of him in age, was struggling to beat him.
And then that exposed me to the technical understanding of learning through my studies in educational psychology, because those were courses I offered.
And then I later did, much later, I did a diploma in educational learning psychology.
Now, before the learning psychology focus, something happened when I was teaching, something very interesting.
Of course, in every class of learners, you have those who are performing very well, impressing the teacher and everyone else, and those who are somewhere within the middle, and yet you have that group that is a concerned population.
And his case was so outstanding that I could remember during one of the open days, it was an embarrassing question to ask, but I had to ask his father the question, was there ever a time when your son was medically diagnosed of having any brain related issue that would have made it difficult for him to process and understand learning materials.
Before presenting that question, I had to like apologize and let the parents know that if this wasn't absolutely important, I would not be asking.
You just be like, no offense.
Yeah,
please.
It is a sensitive
professionally as well so he told me no that there was never um such a diagnosis now i asked that question because i needed to clear the air at this point i was trying to determine what is real as far as um it um determining effectiveness of learning is concerned what are the real factors and what is just a myth right what what is true and and what is just um a kind of fable that people have come to believe or a myth that people have come to accept which is not participating if you're looking at the evidence like which does not feature if you're paying attention to the evidence so i um happened so the next um sequence of event was that i visited this boy's home he's um he had a family member who had returned from abroad and i had to visit the home just kind of being friendly with the family and i found this boy this same student i was asking the father whether he had a medical diagnosis about his learning capacity i found this boy playing ps3 with his elder brother now okay yeah ps3 is is a is a sophisticated game.
He was
playing this game with his elder brother very competitively, such that his elder brother, who has had all these experiences abroad and many several years ahead of him in age, was struggling to beat him.
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