Life is a gift of God!
Life is a war!
Life is a continuous struggle!
Life is a positive opportunity to realize the best out of us!
Life is a reward of past Karma!
Life is a punishment of past misdeeds!
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This is something we never know of and always want to comment on. Everyone views life differently and sometimes the same person views different phases of life differently. And hence it was very interesting to listen to young boys and girls discuss the topic "For me, life is .........." as a classroom exercise. Normally, we allow the discussion to go on for about 30 minutes, but this went on for more than 50 minutes. I was spellbound while listening to various viewpoints as listed above. Then suddenly this bright mind spoke up, "Life is just life. The canvass of life is so big that it just cannot be put in any watertight compartment. Life has various colours. It is a collection of all possible moods and variations. No other word can define it. Life is just life."
Everybody was stunned for a moment. Then all of them began to clap and the discussion was successfully over. For me, it was a new experience. A discussion evolves so naturally, proceeds so interestingly and ends so beautifully.
All discussions do contain a golden mean. There is always a fundamental truth waiting to be explored. As a knowledge society, we must encourage all sort of intellectual debates on all topics. A self evident fact is always there. Open discussion facilitates it to come on the surface.
Shouldn't our classrooms be more interactive? Isn't it time for teachers to take a back seat and let the students uncover the truth for themselves?
5 comments:
Sir,
You are right.Somewhere I read that "If you think that your teacher in your classroom is tough, then wait till you get a boss ! "
Hi Sir! as you mentioned that life is a punishment of past misdeeds & past karma but when it reflects on our present and future than what should we do?
Dear Sir,
A great comment and a great learning, I personally believe that there is so much to learn from everyone and one should not hesitate to learn even from a small child going to school. Learnings never end.
Life is a too bigger topic to be described in a line or two. I read a poem describing "LIFE", i don't remember it completely, but there are a few lines which sums up the true essence of life:
Life is beauty; appreciate it.
Life is a dream; realize it.
Life is a duty; complete it.
Life is a game; play it.
Life is luck; make it.
Life is a puzzle; solve it.
Life is a mission; fulfill it.
Life is life; Live it.
Respected Sir,
Great post again with lots of learnings for life.But after I read your post it made me stop for a while and think about the last statement. As you have written that the students should be allowed to uncover the truth.Even I feel that students must be made to learn by themselves. They should be shown a way, a process to learn. Sir in our family(PROTON) every faculty member, a top team member is dedicated to teach LEARNINGS whether academic or life learnings. But Sir I have been strugggling to absorb all the learnings because my situation is like JACK OF ALL AND MASTER OF NONE. I have not been able to do a ask completely with satisfaction for myself. All the tasks get completed but with no satisfaction. I feel all must be given something to do by themselves, explore those (you really need time to) not imposed. Because then a person will not get to do what really MIND CALLING is!
Seema Patil
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