Educating the Individual | Next Future Magazine: " The most important object of our educational institutions is to help each student to realize his personality, as an individual representing his people, in such broad spirit, that he may know how it is the most important fact of his life for him to have been born to the great world of man."
Rabindranath Tagore tried to give a new orientation to Indian education and tried to stem the tide unleashed by Macaulay in 1835. Starting with Tapovana school and ending with Santiniketan he tried to inculcate a new spirit amongst the educated Indian.
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Western values are usually seen in India as not worthy of emulation. Narayana Murthy on values to emulate for Indians. Interesting speech rather than uniquely perceptive.
A good message for young India, and thanks to my friend Atul B Singh for sharing on Facebook.
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Ladies and gentlemen:
It is a pleasure to be here at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management. Lal Bahadur Shastri was a man of strong values and he epitomized simple living. He was a freedom fighter and nnovative administrator who contributed to nation building in full measure. It is indeed a matter of pride for me to be chosen for the Lal Bahadur Shastri Award for Public Administration and Management Sciences. I thank the jury for this honor.
When I got the invitation to speak here, I decided to speak on an important topic on which I have pondered for years - the role of Western values in contemporary Indian society. Coming from a company that is built on strong values, the topic is close to my heart. Moreover, an organization is representative of society, and some of the lessons that I have learnt are applicable in the national context. In fact, values drive progress and define quality of life in society.
The word community joins two Latin words com ("together" or "with") and onus ("one"). A community, then, is both one and many. It is a unified multitude and not a mere group of people. As it is said in the Vedas: Man can live individually, but can survive only collectively. Hence, the challenge is to form a progressive community by balancing the interests of the individual and that of the society. To meet this, we need to develop a value system where people accept modest sacrifices for the common good.
What is a value system? It is the protocol for behavior that enhances the trust, confidence and commitment of members of the community. It goes beyond the domain of legality - it is about decent and desirable behavior. Further, it includes putting the community interests ahead of your own. Thus, our collective survival and progress is predicated on sound values.
Import teachers for quality education
India's best bet for increasing the number of teachers is imports. Bring in trained and proven teachers from across the world to raise education standards to global levels. Bring in trainers to enthuse Indian teachers and show them different ways of teaching and learning. It is fair exchange. India imports teachers and exports unemployment, our demographic dividend — now-skilled to international levels to meet the projected shortages in many countries.
Sandeep's view
Life is education and education is life!
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