Alone - Lonely

Walking along the sea shore on a beautiful evening, varied thoughts flooded my mind. There was silence except the sound of sea waves and cool breeze. The horizon was turning pinkish red as the Sun was ready to say good night. The Sun was alone, as me!! But he is not lonely. He has the entire universe with him.I watched the sea waves rolling in and rolling out. We roll in to this world and roll out of the world. We are born as one and go back as one. But we too are not lonely!! We are one with the solitude of the sea, the hills, the waves, the birds, the Sun, the entire universe. I gazed at the fisherman’s boat returning after a tiresome day. I could imagine the happy faces of the fishermen. The setting Sun, reflecting his redness on water said, ‘you are one with me, alone but not lonely, you merge with the magnitude of all life forms.’ This is the greatness of life! I am in the company of my own greatness.

The thought of greatness raised questions in my mind. Can anyone become great in spite of not having any fame, power or money? Is greatness not born out of inspired heart?? Should the world approve one’s greatness? Can we all become great even if we don’t win a Nobel prize??? 

Can Morals –Ethics be Taught within Four Walls of classroom??…

A positive childhood in love and care is the most influential factor for the development of a strong human being. With busy working parents, broken families, schools are hopelessly over-strained with this responsibility. Most of our fairytale culture is based on the idea to teach moral concepts to children through some literature and assessments, which do not give any guarantee that they have been learnt and imbibed in behaviour. 

  I am stunned to see advertisements on ‘Value Education Products’. Recently, I met a self proclaimed value educator in one of the Education Fairs. Last week I met her in my office, who showed me on her laptop how she is going to conduct Value Education classes. There were some animations and an online test. Higher the test points, higher the value imbibed by the student. I was amused when she said, ’you can assess your students on the basis of the score they get in MCQ test!!!! No wonder increase in crime rate is directly proportionate to this kind of value education!!!!
PHOTO COURTESY: Ravi Hegde  biologisthegde@facebook.com   biologisthegde@gmail.com                                                                          

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