Report: Thinkers' Club Session 23

Date: 18^th January, 2015
Session # 23
Attended by: 14 participants
Report Written by: Fatima Salman

In this session, we discussed many things. First we talked about Emotions. We were asked to name some emotions. The responses were love, hate, anger, excitement, etc. We were told that there are four basic emotions which are; Hope, Pleasure, Grief and Fear. Other emotions include Love and Anger.

Then we talked about Poverty. There are several ‘Forms of Poverty’. We discussed the ones below:

1. Intellectual Poverty
  (Having no ideas and opinions)

2. Linguistic Poverty
   (Having ideas but no words to express)

3. Social Poverty
  (No friends and people to express themselves)

4. Ethical Poverty
  (no manners, etiquettes, ethics)

5. Financial Poverty
  (Shortage of money)

When we hear the word poverty, only ‘Financial Poverty’ comes to our mind. There are actually five main types of poverty. This list shows financial poverty at the very bottom, which shows us that money is the least important. The more important things are our knowledge, language, social circle and manners.

Like Intellectual Poverty, Linguistic Poverty, etc. There is also something called being Intellectually Rich, Linguistically Rich, Socially Rich, Ethically Rich, and lastly, Financially Rich. These things are the opposite of intellectual, linguistic, social, ethical and financial
poverty.  

A person may be financially rich but intellectually poor, or financially poor but socially rich.

After this detailed discussion, we were asked to think about what is the most valuable and precious thing each person has. The responses were:

• Talents
• Emotions\Feelings
• Thoughts\Opinion
• Heart
• Mind

Then we played a guessing game called kasoti (in Urdu) and Twenty Questions in English (we did it with ten questions). We were divided into two teams of seven children in each team. First, one team had to think of a person and the other team had to guess it by asking ten questions which can be answered in a yes or no only. (Questions were like Is it a male? Is he alive?)

After playing the game a couple of times, we discussed some poetry. Some people recited some verses of poetry from their memories. We talked about which poet has written the verses that were shared. We were told to bring three verses of poetry to share in the next session.


Overall, it was an interesting session, with many things discussed and talked about.