The Contribution of a School

Success in life is guaranteed by the wings of education and creativity. While creativity is gifted, education is taught; and schools play an elemental part in the history of one’s education.
And though it is expected from a school (especially the best ones) to inculcate habits and virtues that lead a child from ignorance to bliss, a school cannot do anything for our own betterment, unless we ourselves wish to do the same. And if we do not wish to do something about it, we shall soon follow the path to our own doom and defeat.
An example to the argument could be that of a student. If a student is weak in his subjects and has a tutor, he cannot be helped unless the student is ready to show interest. Without such a mindset, however much a teacher tries, the student shall never learn. In the same way, the school does its best for our education, it gives us a vision which will be guided by wisdom, nurtured and grown to help build a new world to be bonded by the spirit of unanimity.
The mission of a school is to prepare children who have courage and heroism, scholars who demand themselves for tireless labour and inner discipline. It is the school which provides these younglings an insight directed towards self-control and self-mastery. A school is engaged in providing facilities and opportunities to students to develop strong and healthy bodies, clear and wide minds, resolute will power and ever-widening horizons of knowledge and even of wisdom. A school is dedicated to serve the highest interests of nation-building that can ensure vast synthesis of knowledge and harmonious perfection of the individual and the collectivity.
What makes a school important for students is its duty to ensure an all-round development of personality through efficient education and cultural caliber with total dedication. To import education to all, irrespective of their caste, creed and color is what a school stands for. In an atmosphere of purity, efficiency, discipline and fraternity is wisdom earned, and developed in fullness of versatile personality and self governance through training so that there is total dedication to the service of mankind.


A school gifts its kindred knowledge, and not the choice to use it, control it or ignore it. It can provide the encouragement to improve self-confidence and creativity through participation, but not the virtue itself. A school can develop creative potential of children through painting, music and other arts, but not the choice to imbibe them. Beyond that, a school cannot change a man to build a will to act or abstain.

What we see today is but a reflection of our own neglect. Today the young brawl to assert their act of ignorance and exemption. This does not confer sensibility but idiocy. Springing to a more alarming expanse to the problem, the concept of teaching( whether textual or incident) as a burden and a source of worthless inconvenience grows fast as an idea when one does not understand the essence of it- that education is not for the sake of anyone else but for their very own selves. Because education accounts for our own success, and not that of our parents or teachers; it is you to be the sufferer and the winner, the seeker and the prey, a symbol of success or a lingering shadow of darkness and neglect.
Once we truly believe and take a step to acknowledge our need for the school and the school for us, it shall be the end of those long sought demented quarrels.
A school is well aware about its duty towards its students and performs them too, but their hard work shall be in vain until those who are just not ready to understand its need as for their own, face that inevitable truth …..

An Open Mind

India has achieved a great name for itself as the biggest working democracy in the whole world. Sure, the Indian democracy is the biggest in the world with more than 500 million voters exercising their voting rights periodically. Moreover, democracy has been functional working but for a brief aberration in 1971, when the ‘national emergency’ was declared. Peaceful changes of governments have occurred on the power of ballot.

But is this what you really call a true democracy? A democracy that reflects the will of a true majority…. Does its true nature exist in all levels of political activity and organizations, in its representation and decisions? Unfortunately, the answer to that inevitable question would be a big no.

Crime and criminals are forming an unacceptably large part of our political scene. Corruption has become the major source of funds in politics and has been accepted as normal. Nepotism, hero-worship and sycophancy is what the bread and butter of politic stability is all about.

Conducting periodic elections cannot alone assure a real democracy. What we need is something more; something powerful enough to act and not be defied, to be looked up to as a symbol of enactment of our thoughts…. our voice.

The umpteen obstacles in the way of obtaining what we can claim truly as democracy are many; nevertheless they can be solved through meaningful debate within and across all political spectrum and governmental bodies.

What I propose to the reader is not a treasure chest of self acclaimed philosophy and novel ideas; they are to be humble, a mere collection of some of the choicest and best. As a country posed by equally trenomical problems as the evidently present gratifying solutions, a change in our system, even by the slightest measure must encompass the benefit of one and all of kind, and try to help elevate the standards of democracy by leaps and bounds.

For achieving such a balanced political system, we must make minds willing and tolerant enough to accept change as the only means for betterment. The first among such proposed changes could be to make sure that every political party is made to submit audited accounts on an annual basis. Also, the minimum qualifications criteria for contesting in various elections must indeed undergo revision. As a result, education, experience, service record and moral background should be the factors involved in making a candidate eligible for elections.

It is oft said by the various members of the political agenda is that meeting such requirements would strongly handicap the power of a common man to be a part of the system. However, the minimum requirements once set by the government would in turn encourage an entire change in the outlook of politics and encourage education and merit to be the foregoing factor of selection, ultimately driving enthusiasts from every small constituency to adhere to it. So, whether it is elementary education for candidature to Local bodies or graduation for candidature to the Parliament; such a change will indeed prove healthy in selecting a true and responsible leader. As an input, we may see good conduct and Social Service record to be the common criteria for selecting a worthy choice. But the true meaning of democracy must not end there but should be strengthened and immersed in grass root levels. To avoid what has become a shameful act of power in politics (namely corruption), election expenses by all political parties and candidates must be closely monitored. Also, any party or candidate spending more than the stipulated amount should be subject to disqualification. An important step towards the achievement of democracy is revolutionizing the concept of electoral voting, and that can only be possible by making sure every citizen is an active participant for voting. If not made compulsive, voting could indeed be encouraged, and such an encouragement could come in many innovative ways- from tax exemptions to eligibility for various government services. A very important step could be the introduction of electronic voting at all levels. Such a step would be critical in saving time and money which is unfortunately what that drains the economy at the time of electing representatives of a country of a billion.

But mere words never fulfill destiny, it is we alone who hold the power to drive forth: to make a change. And as each voice joins to become one in all and all in one, when the spirits and minds of men and women conjoin to seek what is needed and not desired; mankind will watch as change takes over to envelope the world in its fold. Then it shall not be an India to be its subject, the world shall witness a change leading them from darkness to light, and helping us reach that long forgotten path once contaminated with the venom of hatred, corruption and contempt. Then all that we shall see forward would be light.......