{"id":22197,"date":"2025-06-24T08:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/blog-post\/to-be-to-do-and-to-want\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:01:24","slug":"to-be-to-do-and-to-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/blog-post\/to-be-to-do-and-to-want\/","title":{"rendered":"To be, To Do and To Want"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few evenings ago, I found myself in a surprisingly deep conversation with my 11-year-old, trying to explain the verb \u201cto be.\u201d What started as a fairly innocent grammar discussion became something much harder to articulate. The more we explored it, the more I realised that \u201cbeing\u201d isn\u2019t a simple concept at all. In fact, it may be one of the hardest things to explain, and perhaps even harder to practise.

In education we often talk about what people do. We build curricula around skills, we set outcomes and assessments, we track performance. All of that matters. Action is necessary. Doing gives us agency. It\u2019s how we participate in the world and how we make change possible.<\/p>\n\n\n

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But I worry that we don\u2019t give nearly enough attention to the deeper questions of being. Who are our students becoming\u2014not just in terms of careers, but as people? Are they learning to act with intention, or are they simply reacting to the pressures around them?

This is where wanting comes in. So much of what we do is driven by what we think we want. Increasingly, those wants are shaped by forces most people never really notice. Social media, advertising, even parts of our educational culture. They all have a way of influencing desire without necessarily building awareness.

Coming back to that conversation with my son. To be, to do, to want: they\u2019re not just verbs, they\u2019re deeply human questions. And in a world where AI can do more and more for us, I think education must focus even more on what it means to live with intention, to act from within rather than be pulled from without.

At Euro University of Bahrain, as well as preparing students for employment, we\u2019re also helping them to develop clarity of mind, purpose in action and the self-awareness needed to navigate a noisy world. Not every student will articulate it in philosophical terms, and they shouldn\u2019t have to.

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