Summary of Hans Rosling's How I Learned to Understand the World

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I learned about the world from my father, who worked in the roasting shed at Lindvalls Kaffe in Uppsala. He would bring home coins from all over the world, and explain to me how they got there.
#2 I had a small wireless set in a wooden case that stood on the String shelf above the kitchen table. I would listen to the news from Sveriges Radio, the national broadcaster, with my parents. My parents’ views mattered to me as a boy more than the actual news stories.
#3 I was a teenager when I became fascinated by the challenge of understanding how people live their lives. I began to ask my mother’s and father’s parents detailed questions about their living conditions.
#4 My grandma had a dream of owning a washing machine, which she did in 1940. She was able to keep it clean, and the clothes were easy to wash and dry. But my grandfather lost his job when he was seventeen, and he was ashamed to be unemployed.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Teacher
• Biography
• Educators

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822547711
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Hans Rosling's How I Learned to Understand the World
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I learned about the world from my father, who worked in the roasting shed at Lindvalls Kaffe in Uppsala. He would bring home coins from all over the world, and explain to me how they got there.

#2

I had a small wireless set in a wooden case that stood on the String shelf above the kitchen table. I would listen to the news from Sveriges Radio, the national broadcaster, with my parents. My parents’ views mattered to me as a boy more than the actual news stories.

#3

I was a teenager when I became fascinated by the challenge of understanding how people live their lives. I began to ask my mother’s and father’s parents detailed questions about their living conditions.

#4

My grandma had a dream of owning a washing machine, which she did in 1940. She was able to keep it clean, and the clothes were easy to wash and dry. But my grandfather lost his job when he was seventeen, and he was ashamed to be unemployed.

#5

My father, a carpenter, was the best orienteer in Uppsala County. He was always ready to participate in activities, and his can-do attitude inspired others. He had learned about the tradition of naming an unmarried woman the mother of her child after hearing about it from his mother.

#6

My mother, who was born in Sweden in 1927, had a difficult childhood. She started school in the autumn of 1927, enrolled in a fine, newly built school near where they lived. When she saw the school building, she had to stop to take it all in.

#7

My family history has helped me understand developments in the wider world. There had been famine years and extreme poverty in my grandmother’s recent past, which was why so many of her ancestors had migrated to Illinois, Minnesota, and Oregon in 1846.

#8

My family’s economic situation was improved by the government, but my grandmother and mother’s generation were not supposed to take pleasure in sexual intimacy, and they were denied the right to plan when to conceive.

#9

My father would take me to the lectures at the city’s branch of the Workers’ Educational Association when I was in primary school. The lectures were usually about explorers who had gone off to faraway countries and presented black-and-white photographs on a screen.

#10

I had close contact with someone who had traveled to Africa and lived there. His name was Ingmar, and he was a minister’s son. He had once given a talk about his work as a missionary in French Equatorial Africa. I was taught a lot of geography at school, but was left with the feeling that I knew surprisingly little about how people lived in other parts of the world.

#11

I was five years old when we moved into a house with a nice garden. My parents were able to buy it mainly through years of saving, topped up by a loan guaranteed by the state through the growing social housing movement.

#12

The story of my family is a reflection of the fast and positive changes happening in Sweden. It was easy to see the four economic levels in the world exemplified in the context of my family.