Report:Thinkers' Club Session 3

Session # 3
Date: 17^th August, 2014

Attended by: 22 participants
Report Written by: Fatima Salman

On 17th August, we had our third session of Thinkers' Club. In this session, we were joined by eight students of L2L Academy. We were continuing the topic of What and How Animals Think. Following the previous session's home task, three kids had made nests out of twigs, dried leaves and grass. They were presented to the class and the people who had made the nests, explained how they had made them. The nests were finely made and resembled a bird's nest. (Pictures of those nests are shared here).

Then, we started discussing on what animals think and act upon. These four main things came up.

1. Protecting from danger
2. What to eat
3. How and where to live-home or no home
4. Produce offspring

This is the way an animal's mind works.It just cares about protecting itself from any kind  of danger, hunting for food, having a place to live, and creating a family. This can be called an animal's life.

This led to another point to ponder upon; Are there people who spend their lives like animals? The answer, quite simply is a yes! There are people who think only around their instincts like animals: Protecting themselves from any any kind of danger, (earning money) to have food to eat and a place to live, and then having a family.

We then discussed about What are the things which makes a person different from an animal, or, in other words, What are the qualities of a human being which animals don't have?

We listed these things which came to our mind:

1. Selflessness; thinking of others
2. Purpose of life\goals
3. Proactive instead of reactive (emotional control)
4. Follow instructions\orders of Allah [Religion]
5. Knowledge
6. Culture\manners
7. Curiosity
8. Freedom of choice
9. Sense of right and wrong\needs and wants
10. Problem identification, analysis, and solving
11. Planning long term future
12. Beautiful forms of expression\creativity
13. Highly developed languages

We ended with the home task of finding out about Migratory Birds. We could present it through a Presentation, Report, or Write-up.