When people come across certain things for the first time, they may
understand the extraordinary nature of them and this may spur them to further
inspect what they see. After a while, however, they develop a habitual
resistance to those things and they no longer impress them. In particular, an
object or happening they meet every day becomes ‘ordinary’ for them.
Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting
for it to rain. – Wiz Khalifa
A mind is a parachute. It doesn’t work if it’snt open. – Frank
Zappa.
Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind.
– Amit
Ray
A house that has a library in it has a soul. - Plato
On her first day of rounds at a
Australian hospital, a visiting American nurse meets an old man packing up.
“I’m going home to die,” he says.
She quickly checks the chart.” Not
according to your chart.”
“I am going home to die,” he
insists.
“Who told you that?”
“My doctor.”
Well, it’s not true. You are not
going home to die!
“Yes, I am! I was supposed to go
home yester die, but instead, I’m going home to die!”
Ø
Imagination decides
everything.
Ø Imagination is a force that takes you to places you have never been.
Ø
Immerse yourself
completely in what you are doing in the present moment.
Ø
Improve the way you
communicate your thoughts and ideas.
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S. Thamburaj Ph.D
Former Dean, Faculty
of Horticulture, TNAU, Coimbatore
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Every year we used to see the students going to schools and colleges during the month of June. They all wear new uniforms with new back-packs filled with new textbooks and notebooks. At every house, moms will be busy preparing their children (bathing, dressing up, and feeding breakfast) for school. The students go to school or colleges either by the school or college buses, or privately run vans or auto rikshaws or parents drive them in their own vehicles like scooters or motorbikes or by four-wheelers. All these pleasant sights every morning in every town has become a dream since 2020 June. It’s all caused by the cruel coronavirus pandemic. No normal classes, no class-room teaching, no games in the play-ground, no mixing with old and new friends and above all no enjoyment in spending time in school or college campuses!
Educationists and Education Ministers, even the Prime
Minister and Chief Ministers met many times to tackle the pandemic problem not
affecting the academic year. They could successfully conduct the NEET
examination at the all-India level. They introduced online teaching and the
teachers were asked to conduct virtual classes every day so that students stay
at home and learn their lessons without exposing to the coronavirus. Even
examinations (tests) are conducted periodically on-line.
It’s a wonder for old age people like me to see such a
change and the role played by laptops or smartphones. One of the major
limitations is the availability of these devices to all the students who
are economically weak. For the middle and upper-class people of the urban
society, on-line classes work successfully. Many teachers and students felt
this change as a burden and uncomfortable for them because they have to come
out of their comfort zone.
There are advantages and disadvantages to online teaching. Some of the advantages are: there is no need for school or college uniforms; there is no need for traveling to school or colleges which are either located near or far away.
The schools and colleges need not spend on maintaining
the classrooms and huge buildings with hundreds of rooms. Some of the
disadvantages felt by certain parents and the students are not being with
friends for the whole day, eating and sharing lunch with close friends,
spending time in the cafeteria, no school/college day functions and no sports
meet for the annual days. Practical classes may not be possible to conduct
on-line. Probably someone may come forward with a solution soon! Availability
of uninterrupted internet facilities all over the country is another major
limitation. There will be loss of jobs for many who worked in hostels and
messes (cooks and mess boys)
How in future our students are going to cope up with
all these restrictions. But still, the attempt to continue the academic year is
taking place with an expectation that the pandemic will come to an end by 2021.
So the on-line classes are being conducted by some schools and colleges. The
web portals and mobile apps like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Skype,
Diksha, e-Patshala, and many others are used for online classes. In fact, the
academic seminars and comprehensive examinations, and thesis viva-voce
examinations are being conducted online by webinar. It is very simple to do
without so many festival-like activities. Technology has given us the devices
for everyone to participate and carry out all these academic activities cheaply
sitting at their own place.
So I think if the on-line teaching is successful,
liked by students and teachers it may continue and change the future of
education. Such changes may totally modify the education system and students
will be adapted to the
change. When everything is going online, why not schools and colleges? - NARA
1. Make ‘Let Go’ a happening phenomenon
2. Don’t judge people
3. Don’t compare with others
4. Accept people as they are
5. Love without expectations
6. Be empathetic
7. Learn to be tolerant
8. Kindness and compassion as an integral
part.
9. Celebrate joy in ‘Giving’
10. Enjoy spontaneously love and laughter
11. Understand you just can’t change
others
12. Focus on changing yourself for better
13. Realize happiness is within you
14. Differentiate the need & greed
15. Make relationships live
16. Be a contributing personality
17. Inbuilt integrity in you
18. Make prayers integral part of you
19. Enjoy essence of yogic living
20. Be meditative and mindful
Your body reflects your emotional state.
When you are positive and confident, you stand erect with your chest out and a
smile on your face. If you just won $10,000,000 in the lottery, imagine how you
would feel and how your physiology would respond ☺. You would feel on top of the world. Everyone
watching you will see it by the way you carry yourself.
Imagine how you would feel and look if you
lost your winning lottery ticket ". If this depressed you, your eyes would
be down and your shoulders slumped. Some individuals would probably feel like
killing themselves for losing their winning ticket.
Your physiology works both
ways. Your body reflects your feelings. However, how you carry your body
affects your feelings. One of the quickest and easiest ways to improve your chemistry is to change your
physiology. By taking slow deep breaths, standing tall and sticking your chest
out, you automatically increase your
chemistry and immediately feel better. Raise your eyes to the sky and smile
right now. Do you feel a change in your energy and alertness? If you always
carry yourself like a winner, you will feel like a winner.
1.
Exercise regularly ( check with a doctor before starting an
exercise program if you have any chronic illnesses).
2.
Get regular health check-ups.
3.
Stop smoking (it’s never too late to quit).
4.
Practice safety habits at home to prevent falls and fractures.
Always wear your seatbelt in the car.
5.
Stay in contact with family and friends. Stay active through work,
play, and community.
6.
Avoid overexposure to the sun and the cold.
7.
Use moderation if you drink alcohol. When you drink, let someone
else drive.
8. Keep personal and financial records in order to simplify budgeting and investing.
9. Plan long-term housing and money needs.
10. Keep a positive attitude toward life.
11. Do things that make you
happy.
.
If you change the way you look at things, the things
you look at change. – Wayne Dyer
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leanardo
da Vinci
A civil engineer, a
chemist, and an economist are traveling in the countryside. Weary, they stop at
a small country inn. "I only have two rooms, so one of you will have to
sleep in the barn," the innkeeper says. The civil engineer volunteers to sleep
in the barn, goes outside, and the others go to bed.
In a short time
they're awakened by a knock. It's the engineer, who says, "There's a cow
in that barn. I'm a Hindu, and it would offend my beliefs to sleep next to a
sacred animal." The chemist says that, OK, he'll sleep in the barn.
The others go back to
bed, but soon are awakened by another knock. It's the chemist who says,
"There's a pig in that barn. I'm Jewish, and cannot sleep next to an
unclean animal." So the economist is sent to the barn. It's getting late,
the others are very tired and soon fall asleep.
But they're awakened
by an even louder knocking. They open the door and are surprised by what they
see: It's the cow and the pig!
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