Dear All
The year 2012 has been very eventful from
various perspectives. It gave us an opportunity to improve upon our weaknesses
and strengthen our core competencies. William Shakespeare has truly said “ To
err is human and to forgive is divine” which means committing a mistake is
human nature but learning from our mistakes may elevate our status beyond human
imagination. Similarly nurturing a grudge against somebody is like holding a
rotten potato in our hand and being oblivious about its putrid or obnoxious
smell is again an abnormal behaviour. So it is better to forgive someone who
has been instrumental in hurting us emotionally or psychologically because that
way only we’ll be able to cure him or her from the deep rooted ailment or else
we will be responsible for refueling his/her energy for this kind of offence.
The true objective of education has always
been to develop the inherent and innate capabilities of children to their
optimum extent but ever since the dawn of human civilization the core
competencies have always been put on backburner. In other words very few
educational institutions are there which offer training which may help a child
solve his/her future problems related to life and that is the reason why we
have such a whopping number of unemployed people or people with no vision,
mission or goal in their life. If we
want to change the society, we have to take every child very seriously right
from the first day of his/her entry in the school. We have to keep in mind that
even if a single weakness of a child goes unnoticed, it will assume an alarming
proportion by the time it catches our attention.
“A child enters an institution as a little
angel but by the time the same child leaves as an adult, he/ she turns out to
be a big devil”. It should be a matter of great concern for the educators who
are and who have to be responsible for this kind of disturbing phenomenon. Per
se a child is not bad but it is the kind of ambience in which he/she is kept
for most of his/her waking hours that leave such corrupting influences on
his/her mind. We educators are capable of finding a lasting solution to this
aberration in their behaviour provided we are genuinely awake to this reality
and instead of all the time forcing the child to do what he/she doesn’t like, we
may provide him/her a platform which may keep the child productively engaged by
channelising the huge reservoir of creativity
in him or her.
Two things which are imperative for every
individual in every institution are patience and gratitude. Most of the
problems are faced by an individual because of being in haste whether at home
or in office which causes such a serious situation that sometimes it makes an
individual rue throughout his/her life. Lack of gratitude, similarly, makes an
individual devoid of sensitivity grace or elegance of life which are the core
virtues.
Let this new year of 2013, therefore, be a
year with a difference. Let us resolve to have strong social, human and moral
values and engage our mind not in trivial matters but something that helps us
become the agents of social change and a great driving force for larger human
welfare. Let every act of ours be an act of great national pride. With such an unwavering
and unflinching resolution, we shall certainly be able to pay the real tribute
to our nation and then only we will deserve to call ourselves true Indians.
Jai
Hind! Jai Bharat!
