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LIFE brings us many challenges where we have to make some hard decisions. And Christianity can call us to be different. It can call us to be counter-cultural. Our own search in life and meaning has to go far beyond just making money, consumption, bringing fame and power to our life. And that is the message to St Joseph’s Catholic Parish in Port Moresby that we feel should be shared.
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SCHOOLS are a mirror in which a society sees itself reflected in the ways students behave in a particular way. Schools reflect the community or society’s values because the school is where the society’s value system is supposed to be captured and inculcated.  The National Curriculum Statement mentioned earlier is the embodiment of the society’s value system.  Whatever effect of that curriculum on the society is reflected in the behaviour of the students!!
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The newly-appointed University of Goroka vice chancellor Dr Musawe Sinebare wrote in a focus piece in The National some years back that the illegal practices being reflected in our schools recently warrants discussion with a view to bring about a change to make schools become the pride of our society as it is there that the society’s values are supposed to be taught.
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Inter-school fights in some of the hotspots around the country are almost like ‘corruption’ in PNG.  Everybody knows there is corruption in PNG but do very little to identify where the real problem is and proactively find a solution to reduce or manage it, let alone eliminate corruption from its source. It’s scary to think that the schools are now a niche for proliferation and enculturation of illegal practices, the very values that are anti-social to the co-existence of the different peoples in PNG.
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WRITTEN and illustrated by Italian architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini over a 30-month period from 1976-1978, Codex Seraphinianus is a visual encyclopaedia of an unknown world. Each of the book’s 11 chapters uses an incomprehensive alphabetic language and colourful textbook-style illustrations to describe the world’s nature and various aspects of life, including its surreal animals, machines, and history.
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AFTER World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel, with the Soviet forces occupying the north and US forces occupying the south. Negotiations to reunify the two zones failed, and in 1950 the North invaded the South, US president Harry Truman ordered troops to assist South Korea, and the UN backed the mission. As UN troops advanced across North Korea, the People’s Republic of China intervened, pushing them back to the original boundary at the 38th parallel.
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QUOTE of the day: I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time. – Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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