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An Investment

Education is both a form of consumption and a kind of investment, like bread and medicine, it is something we use or consume but like a dam or canal it is something in which we invest to produce more in the future. – Kenneth Galbraith

Sunshine

Love of your work, will enlarge your life and increase your ability.  Joy in one’s tasks is what sunshine is to the fruit and flowers.  A person can do much more and better work where his heart is than where it is not – Dr. O.S. Marden

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I keep six honest serving men.  (They taught me all I know);

Their names are what and why and when
And how and where and who.  – Kipling

Education makes people east to lead, but difficult to drive, east to govern, but impossible to enslave – Henry Peter

Think big, believe big and act big.  To this, add work and struggle.  That is the formula for gaining victory over your difficulties – Norman Vincent Peale

Live Positive Way - Chopsticks

A woman who had worked all her life to bring about good was granted one wish, “Before I die let me visit both hell and heaven.” Her wish was granted.

 

She was whisked off to a great banqueting hall. The tables were piled high with delicious food and drink. Around the tables sat miserable, starving people as wretched as could be.

 

“Why are they like this?” she asked the angel who accompanied her.

 

“Look at their arms,” the angel replied.

 

She looked and saw that attached to the people’s arms were long chopsticks secured above the elbow. Unable to bend their elbows, the people aimed the chopsticks at the food, missed every time and sat hungry, frustrated and miserable.

 

“Indeed this is hell! Take me away from here!”

 

She was then whisked off to heaven. Again she found herself in a great banqueting hall with tables piled high. Around the tables sat people laughing, contented, joyful.

“No chopsticks I suppose,” she said.

 

“Oh yes there are. Look, just as in hell they are long and attached above the elbow but look, here people have learnt to feed one another”.

 

Author Unknown

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The Thrill in Teaching

When children learn to use the dictionary, can explain what fractions and decimals are, enjoy “(surprising you) with an interpretation of a scientific discovery or historical event, any bit of accomplishment particularly from children whom you least expect to show it, is the thrill above all others in teaching. – William Abraham – A handbook for teacher

 

 

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work, adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority – Bertrand Russel

 

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Give me a lever long enough, and strong enough, I can move the world single handed – Archimedes

Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be used much until they are seasoned – Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Nations have passed away and left no traces; and history gives the naked cause of it.  One single, simple reason in all cases they fell because their peoples, were not fit – Kipling

Let every man be occupied, and occupied with highest employment of which capable and die with the consciousness that he has done his best – Samuel Smiles

A dictionary is the only place where success comes before work - Berman

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A Philosophy of Education

Philosophy must at each successive stage of growth help men to set up appropriate aims and ideals of life.  A suitable philosophy of education must help practical school people find the educative procedures necessary to attain these aims and prepare for still higher.  Education must bring up successive generations devoted to making life really good for all – W.H. Kilpatrick

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty – Woodrow Wilson

You cannot teach a man anything.  You can only help him find it by himself – Galileo

Ask not what the country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country – John F Kennedy

The product of science is changing; but the attitude of science is permanent.  With good teaching it must become a part of each educated individual – John Clifton Moffit

Live Positive Way - Coffee on the Wall

I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice, Italy, the city of lights and water.

 

As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat at an empty table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his order saying, “Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall.”

 

We heard this order with rather interest and observed that he was served with one cup of coffee but he paid for two.

 

When he left, the waiter put a piece of paper on the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee”.

While we were still there, two other men entered and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee but paid for three and left. This time also, the waiter did the same; he put a piece of paper on the wall saying, “A Cup of Coffee”.

 

It was something unique and perplexing for us. We finished our coffee, paid the bill and left.

 

After a few days, we had a chance to go to this coffee shop again. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man poorly dressed entered. As he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, “One cup of coffee from the wall.”

 

The waiter served coffee to this man with the customary respect and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying.

 

We were amazed to watch all this, as the waiter took off a piece of paper from the wall and threw it in the trash bin.

 

Now it was no surprise for us – the matter was very clear. The great respect for the needy shown by the inhabitants of this town made our eyes well up in tears.

 

Ponder upon the need of what this man wanted. He enters the coffee shop without having to lower his self-esteem… he has no need to ask for a free cup of coffee… without asking or knowing about the one who is giving this cup of coffee to him… he only looked at the wall, placed an order for himself, enjoyed his coffee and left.

 

A truly beautiful thought. Probably the most beautiful wall you may ever see anywhere!

Author Unknown

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A Lesson from Upanishad

Never swerve from your duties towards gods and departed ‘souls’.

May the mother be, to thee, a God

May the father be, to thee, a God
May the preceptor be, to thee, a God
May the guest be, to thee, a God
Let only actions that re free from blemishes be done and not others.

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“If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.” To him (Swami Vivekananda), the workshop, the study, the farmyard, and the field are as true and fit scenes for the meeting of God with man as the cell of the monk or the door of the temple. To him, there is no difference between service of man and worship of God, between manliness and faith, between true righteousness and spirituality.

― Sister Nivedita

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Nevertheless it moves – Galilen

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely – Lord Acton

A single step for a man, a giant leap for mankind – Neil Armstrong

Man is born free and everywhere he I in chains – Jean – Jacques Rousseall