Good parenting

This is an email from one of co-professors from Management Teacher's Consortium. Under TSR Teacher's Social Responsibility) I feel, I must share with others what is good that I have read. Hence, this good writing and advice to parents:

Dear friends,

Good morning.

How to treat your children?  Wonderful.

Look at the communication of a school.

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With regards,

 

Dr. K. Sampath Kumar,  B.A. (Economics), BGL, M.Com., M.Phil., Cert. A.I.I.B.,
                                        MBA (Finance), MBA (HR & Marketing),  ACS, FCMA, Ph. D., 
Professor, 
 
Success consists of getting up
just one more time than you fall
-- Oliver Goldsmith

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REAL EDUCATION

Educate * Empower * Elevate

Education received in schools, colleges and universities is not complete until and unless we have developed a sense of ethical and moral living. 

Sympathy and empathy are not taught but ought to be developed and focus of our learning should be developing Human Centric Solutions to the problems faced by humans throughout the world.

EDUCATION = INTELLIGENCE + CHARACTER. 

Mahatma Gandhi - the father of nation - says:

Wealth is lost, nothing is lost,

Health is lost, something is lost,

Character is lost, everything is lost.

The learnings made in the schools, colleges and universities are like the beads of the garland but the beads can be turned into garland with solid thread. Spirituality and its development is that thread. Spirituality develops the human mind to cultivate kindness, sympathy and empathy for the pains of the living - be it humans, animals or birds. Environment is loved by the spiritual person. 

So, develop spirituality to be more educated beyond schools, colleges and universities. 

Pretensions, doubts, excuses are some of the hurdles faced by an individual on spiritual path. Right master with self-effort on the spiritual path leads to right path and destination.

Those who are spiritually enlightened serve the society in wider ways,

For further reading click on: http://sivanandaonline.org/public_html/?cmd=displaysection&section_id=797

LETTER FRAMOM ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO HIS SON'S HEADMASTER

Altered version of

 LETTER FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO HIS SON’S TEACHER

 for easy understanding.       

My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you would treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents.

All adventures that probably include wars, tragedy and sorrow.

To live this life will require faith, love and courage.

So, dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him the things he will have to know, teaching him – but gently, if you can.

Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know that all men are not just, that all men are not true.

But teach him also that for every scoundrel, there is a hero and that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader.

Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found.

Teach him in   school, teacher, it is far more honourable to fail than to cheat. Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose and enjoy winning when does win.

Teach him to be gentle with gentle people, tough with tough people.

Steer him away from envy if you can and teach him the secret of quiet laughter.

Teach him if you can  - how to laugh when he is sad.

Teach him there is no shame in tears.

Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in success.

Teach him to scoff at cynics.

Teach him if you can the wonders of the books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill.

Teach him to listen to every one, but teach him also to filter all that he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him to sell his talents and brains to highest bidder but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul.

Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind, in God.

This is a big order, teacher. But see what best you can do. He is such a nice little boy and he is my son.

Attention reader:

If you have a little pretty daughter to send to school, please replace the word son to my little butterfly.  I call my daughter butterfly.


Source: http://www.citehr.com/33972-letter-abraham-lincoln-his-son-s-teacher-2.html

Path Ways to Knowledge

Brain is the engine of the train called body. Brain is said to have about 15000 million brain cells called neurons. Neorons may be called store houses of information received by a child. On birth, the child has about 3750 million stores houses and receives the information from the environment. The information is received through eyes, ears, touch, taste and smell. Generally, the elders think and believe the child is young to undertstand their activities. But it is not so. Passively, the child goes recording the informtion in its sub-conscious mind. At the age of abou 18 months the brain cells double to 7500 million and by the age of 6 they go upto 90% of the total i.e. 13500 million. The information receieved and gathered during the first 6 years conciously or unconsciously largely determines the beliefs and basic personality traits like faith in the world - good or bad, just or unjust, worthy of living or leaving, crime free or full of criminals, fit for builders of the world or breakers and many more. This all affects his behaviour in later years of his/her life. That is why wisemen say, "Give the child for the first 6 - 7years and we can make him angel or devil as we wish." Here the basic learning matters a lot. Orientation of mind needs direction at this level. Affection and basic faith in family system of which the mother is most important plays a vital role in establishing child's faith in the established real world.
If the mother loves the child, the child will develop healthy concept of the world and would love to make it and ideal world. On the other hand, neglect and ignorance on the part of the mother and other family members and community develops wrong definitions relating to various relationships in the established world. The child finds himself/herself more confused than clear about existence in this world.
By the age of 18 the brain is developed fully.
This may be more illustrated. We may take brain as a field comprising of 15000 million acres of land. At the time of birth, the child has 3750 million acres of land to be cultivated. This much cultivation is done by the environment in which he is born. His information receiving power is greater than the knowledge imparted to him. By the age of 18 month, this land increases to 7500 million for which the information lacks. Now at 6 the the land i.e. brain cells increase to 90% i.e. 13500 million acreas but where is the new knowledge and new information? In case all the land is not cultivated, what happens. It goes barren. Similarly, our mind which is mostly dependent upon brain as a hardware, goes barren. We have the capability to know more, work more understand more, create more, innovate more but the environment in which we live does not have enough to cultivate. By the age of 18 years, we are fully developed i.e. 15000 million acres of land is ready for cultivation. The family, community and society in which we live imposes so many hurdles and constraints that even 1% of the brain is not used throughout life. It all goes astray.