Author: Anirudh
•Saturday, February 20, 2010
When things go wrong,as sometimes they will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
when the funds are low and debts are high,
And you want to smile,but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must,but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every on of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it sees so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
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Author: Anirudh
•Thursday, February 04, 2010
Last year my life was not as good as it is.I faced some ups and downs in life.I saw that during crisis we feel rudderless.Crisis attacks us from all directions.It brings sparseness to our stability,try to strangles our self-confidence,dismantles our courage and pushes us to shambles.In this situation we forget our hidden qualities,and search them in others.But crisis also brings the opportunity to know a divine energy within us.It gives us opportunity to change directions and make important changes in your life.In crisis we often have two ways.We can take the advantage of this divine energy or we can surrender to the challenges.The real adventure begins when we choose to use this opportunity to grow once again.When we show this courage against crisis, life become a adventure and every moment becomes excitement.
"We all have enough stuff to attract everything what we need,dream and desire"
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Author: Anirudh
•Sunday, January 24, 2010
Recently a good friend of mine was hired by a consultancy services company at a heavy package.He was very happy.As i know him he is a talented person having a good academic background throughout.I'm sure he has enough stuff for this job.At the same day i met a school friend of mine while travelling in metro.He was my senior during schooling.He was looking worried.I asked him the reason.He told me that he has a degree in engineering discipline and even after one year he hasn't got any job.I wondered because he was a bright student.I never saw him playing during school days because his parents want him to
IITs.On my way to my room i was thinking"what was the difference between these two my friends?, although both were good at studies."Then I could infer two points which are responsible for this difference i.e Quality Education and Our fame-fractured society.
Our education system is not able to provide quality education to all.It is limited to the elite group of our society.In our country,the primary education,which is the base of education is almost paralysed.Though it is affordable to ordinary man but it is worth nothing for their children.If you go to government primary school near you, you will know the reality.There are few and half- skilled teachers,no student counsellor,no furniture,no books,no fans,no light arrangement,no drinking water,no games facilities.Shall we able to prepare them for a competition with the students of urban school?Our government is setting up IITs and IIMs every year,but how many students from these schools will able to manage a seat there,most probably no one(leaving out those who have rare talent).Most people and our netas argue that for providing quality education more funds are needed.But they are wrong.Most serious drawbacks of our primary and school education is its different mediums and syllabus throughout out India.We already know that at some stage student has to switch English either bachelors or masters level,so why do we instruct them for 12 years in a non-English language.This effects their proficiency in their subjects.I have seen many students weeping at a score of90% in their state boards exams.We need a central policy of same language and syllabus.These two reforms can be done easily in the existing funds. And the situation of our higher education isn't different,Its biggest obstacle is rote learning and excellence in examinations,which discourage innovative thinking and creativity.Take the example of IIT-JEE which is the gateway to best engineering institutes for over 4000 aspirants every year.It is well known even selected candidates score very low marks(sometimes<10%).if> The coaching institutes take the advantage and make huge money.They give hundred such tricky problems to student everyday.Understanding of concept has no connection with it.
Why do they organise IIT-JEE?Because they don't trust the results of higher secondary boards,and want to measure the basic aptitude of a student for the courses taught at IITs.But who says that only outrageous problems measure it?We can measure the same by easier questions allowing less time.It will do two two good things:there will be no need for coaching,students will focus on school.
Our fame-fractured society play an important role in converting the bad situation into worst.Particularly in our middle class society education is every thing.Failing in exams is like a earthquake.We overburden our children with high expectations in adolescent age.We don't give them enough flexibility for choosing their career.In our cities and towns attending coaching classes is use to understand a fashion.Students leave playing as they reach in 10th class.Their life becomes time table of tuition's and coaching classes.They go to school only for compulsory attendances.
The historical function of schooling isn't learning academic skills.It behoove function is to make a child a practical person,to prepare him for good life.This function can go to its haul if a child participate in sports,Extra-curricular activities and social interactions.If our society or our school block this necessary function,our society will lose.
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