Monday, April 11, 2016

Some Amazing Quotations and their Relevance

Quote 1: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

--My Institute is an example of unity in diversity not just in terms of different cultural backgrounds of the teachers and students, but here every innovative thought is appreciated and nurtured. Difference is accepted. Hence, there is a steady growth in the intellectual fervour of the student community in this Institute.

Quote 2: It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

--Students are given the opportunity to turn information into knowledge through hands-on experiences in the form of tech fest projects, internships, presenting papers in various national and international seminars and conferences.
The Humanities’ PowerPoint Presentation project brings forth the ability of the students to work in groups, prepare innovative presentation of their choice, take group decisions, build confidence, develop their English speaking skills and their personalities.

Quote 3: Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

--These are the words of the learned U.S. educator and writer Laurence J. Peter where he satirizes the basic concept of education. In my Institute the students are rather encouraged to question whatever they are taught from books or otherwise and not accept anything passively. They are motivated to analyse the information and only then acquire it as knowledge and implement it. This assists in the overall development of the student.


Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Just for you



7:52 pm

I have feelings for you
More intense
Than I ever felt
For anyone in this lifetime
Or ever would.
Don’t ask for logic
As this is beyond it.
Love does not have reason
If it does
‘tis not love
But lust,
for money,
 for beauty
for fame.
I need none of it
in lieu of love.
I have all
And seen the
Transience of them all
It is that deeper feeling I’m after,
That will not wither with time,
Does not have the ebb and flow
Of the tides,
That which always withstands the
Test of time.
When life is at its prime
Let’s journey together
To seek that permanence
There’ll be change of weather
But that change is not for us
Change of nature
But that change is not for us
In our finite love
For each other
Let us
Seek and find
That Infinite.
Come let’s
Start the journey
Let us not apprehend disaster
We are strong enough to
Surmount
Whatever befalls us
Provided we are together.

The anthology which includes my poem 'Tale of a Parrot'.