a)   Education is a life-long process.

b)   Education brings about integrated development.

c)    Education is a tri-polar process.

d)   Education is the need of today.

e)   Education preserves the culture & transmits from one generation to another.

 f)  Education brings changes in the behaviour.

g)  Education should be job-oriented & skilled based.

h)  Education is the development of mental faculties.

i)   Education brings out the latent talent within individual.

J)   Education has a specific goal of improving one’s capabilities, capacities and performances.

k)  Education is a continuous reconstruction process.

l)   Education teaches the art of reasoning and analyzing.

m) Education is the nurturing process of personality.

n)  Education should be related to life, not bookish or irrelevant.

When I started reading the book ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ by Louise Hay, a question raised in my mind, can we really heal our life? I started experimenting myself. After five chapter, I got  mouth ulcer near my lips and it was really painful. I thought if I follow the new pattern that she has mentioned in her book, it may subside and go away. I started saying this in my mind for several times for atleast two to three days. My condition worsened more. I felt feverish. Ulcer widened, I was really unwell.

I searched internet for Home remedy, started following one or two, but in vain. I joined  yoga class for regular practice but ulcer is in the same condition. Then I realised that I have to find out my own cause of suffering. As I myself delved in spirituality from young age and followed the goodness of onself and others, I began to analyse myself. In every step of my life, I analysed and did the things and always went ahead. I always listened to my own conscious and did the work. As we live in the society, we have to sometime listen to  other people also. But I have noticed one thing that whenever I listened to others and not followed my own conscious, I did a mistake and suffered.

 So while writing the previous topic on my site — For the students — I saw the quotes of  Swami Vivekananda and started working on consciousness more. Then I realised, I may have scolded or got angry with someone, when my house was full of guests few days back. The ulcer, though its there yet, is diminishing very slowly.

 I realised,  due to our own action we suffer in life. Due to our own action, we enjoy our life physically and mentally. We all are different entity in this world. We all are born with certain natural phenomenon, certain Sanskar. Accordingly, we behave and act.

Reading books, gives us some information but our life is different, our experiences are different, our living style is different, our way of thinking differ, so is our Action-Reaction.

To the students—–

1. Time is very precious. Time will not come back. You have to wait for the right time and opportunity.
2. Haste is waste. Don’t hurry in life. Wait for the right opportunity.
3. Everyone born in this world has some purpose, search and analyzes that purpose.
4. Don’t forget your own capacity.
5. Don’t compare yourself with other, you are an individual. Don’t kill your individuality.
6. You are the best in your own way. You are the best, doesn’t mean that others are worst.
7. Envy kills oneself.  Try to do the work on  your own way.
8. Don’t try to follow anyone; you are the best in your own talent. Find out the way.
9. Negative thought never grows, it pulls you down, and  the thought which grows upward is positive thought.Reap the  positive thought.
10. Limit your work load.
11.  If you are not sleeping for 7 hours, you are playing with fire, even if you have low stress.
12. “Those who brood on the past and never live here and now, this is the cause of their suffering.” So live in the present.
13.  If you feel that, you are a child and you are learning in every moment, from everyone, you are learning forever.
14. Discuss each and every moment with your family and dear ones.
15.  Smiling and Laughing is the best medicine forever.

 At the end I end it with swami Vivekanand’s words—

 Teach yourselves, teach everyone his real nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how it awakes. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will come, purity will come, and everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is roused to self-conscious activity.

IDEAL Teacher Training Programme

In the month of October, ITTP was born in IDEAL. Every one had welcomed this new member in the family.

IDEAL is expanding its branches all over Mumbai & Thane. Keeping this thing in mind IDEAL started this programme. It is a job guaranteed programme.

Objectives of ITTP :—-

• The main objective of this course is to transform a student & teacher into and Innovative Learning teacher.
• To develop personal, professional, social skills and competence required by a teacher.
• To inculcate the attribute and values to teachers.
• To develop a sense of commitment towards the class, organization and profession.
• To enable the students to foster creative thinking among pupils for reconstruction of knowledge.
• To develop integrity and transparency.
• To foster corruption free environment for self, students and organization for Nation’s interest.
• Continuous development of Teachers.

IDEAL prepares teacher for Secondary, Higher secondary and other streams for the different branches of the institution. Those who are really passionate in teaching and scored 55% marks in graduation or post graduation are eligible for the course.

Every month, Ideal starts a new batch for the training. Ideal needs more than hundred teachers in the institution as they are expanding their arms everywhere.

Correct methodologies, Skill of teaching and different types of presentation are taught in this course. Special classroom teaching is the specialty of this course.

After the completion of the course, students will be given the certificate and mark sheet which will be valid in IDEAL and other coaching classes.

The main motto of this course is to train the teachers according to the need of the era as Education and the classroom teachings are changing every now and then.

I, as a teaching fraternity, wish the best for this course.

Everyday a man comes to senior citizen’s park and sits for a while on the bench. Then he goes for jogging around the park. Everyday I notice one thing that he is so engrossed with his hands. One day when I sat beside him, he didn’t acknowledge my presence and the longer I sat I wondered if he was alright.
Finally,though not wanting to disturb him but check on him at the same time,I asked him whether he is in good health.He raised his head and looked at me and smiled.
“Yes , I’m fine ,thank you for your concern”, he said in a clear voice.
Actually,” I did n’t want to disturb you sir,but everyday I notice you and see that you were just staring at your hands and wanted to make sure that you are in good health or not.”
Have you looked at your hands anytime I mean your palm, he asked. I mean really looked at your hands?”
I slowly opened my hands and stared down at them. I turned them up and join them together.But could not find the answer.
Then he smiled and said—

Human beings are the highest creation of God. Human-beings have intelligence, which makes them rational & thinking animal. This rationality depends on thinking and reasoning. Thinking and reasoning go hand in hand for success. The people who have developed these ability are regarded as efficient and respectful in the society.

Those who can think clearly and put efforts on reasoning are considered as successful people. Artists, litterateur, economists, scientists, who have extended their thinking and reasoning, have become powerful, successful and famous beings of the world.

Nowadays people are facing lot of problems due to competition, high price, environmental condition, constrain in food availability etc. There is no ready-made solution for the problem. Reasoning is the only solution for the problem. It is difficult to feed the brain or mind for proper reasoning. Reasoning is the most complex form of adjustment. Well organized mind can easily expose the complexity of reasoning.

According to Maier," Reasoning is productive thinking in which previous experiences are organized or combined in new ways to solve a problem".  According to Rudolf Arnheim,"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention".
When to Reason
a) Difficult situation: i) Identify the difficult situation ii) Explain the difficult situation iii) Condition of the situation iv) Evaluate the situation. These can be gathered from people’s experiences,T.V., pictures, film etc. After getting the information, it should be evaluated. Then information can be organized and classified. Then it is easy to impart reasoning to the situation and solve the problem easily.

Art of Reasoning

1.Know the Life Problem:
The life problem can be 3E–Education, Economy and Employment
Education: There is difficulty in enrolment in any faculty of choice.
Economy: High fees,High price etc.
Employment: Right job & Right kind of environment.
2. Lack of knowledge:
Family members are ignorant of 3E. They sometimes depend on the environment or today’s trends.They are forced to be with the trend.
3. Discussion:
Parents should take interest in the well-being of the children.They should discuss the interest of the child and then take a decision.
Discussion should take place between loved ones as love can take the thing ahead.
Teachers are the maker of society. They are the back-bone of future generation.They should consider child as individual and treat accordingly.
4. Solve the problem:
After gathering all the above mentioned information, now the time has come to give reasons to your thought. This is the crucial moment of brain and mind. Right reasoning means success ahead. Many a time after discussion and knowledge, we can’t give reasoning to our thought and our success hampered. So reasoning is the Gateway of Success.

What are Values? According to dictionary meaning, values are principles or righteousness. The ideas and beliefs which give us the path to walk in life. Values are the guiding principles which give direction to life. These principles bring joy and happiness in life. Values protect us from unwanted events and gives satisfaction and peace in life. Some values can be acquired from the family, school and other environment. Family values settles the person in life.

Value education period is introduced in the school. During this period, no values are taught because teachers are busy with their portion. They always try to utilise this period for extra teaching which is in the syllabus. Actually the syllabus is framed in such a way that teachers run after the portion only. Many teachers tried to teach value-education, but pressure was from the authority or PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) to complete the syllabus first. Some teachers/schools maintain a note book of value education, but no values are inculcated properly in these children. When this value education is taught compulsorily like other academic subjects with exams and marks, thenvalue education may be invaluable.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/list-of-values.htm

There are many values which this site relates to. Acceptance is a value.  But firstly, child should understand the meaning of acceptance, what to accept and what not. Suppose a child is given a packet of cocaine, should he accept it from a unknown or known person and fall into a trap? Abundance is also a value in this list, if a child is given a lot of chocolate, should he eat all together or he should taste and throw all or should he know to share those chocolate with others? Bravery is another value, to save someone from an unwanted scene is bravery but if he is not taught the value of it, he will misuse in unlawful activities. Discipline is another value, which is taught from the school. In a class, may be 50 students, got same kind of discipline, but how may will follow that value throughout their life. Punctuality is another value which is also given from childhood. How many are really following the same?

In school, teacher takes children to the garden for planting trees. That moment children learn how to take care and love the trees. After some years the same 80% of children will pluck the leaves and flowers from the tree and harm the plants. May be two children out of this group learn this value and inculcate it. Same for other values also. These are short-term system of implanting Values.

Now the question is why these values are difficult to inculcate. Spiritually the answer can be given properly. Probably 80% of people will not believe it. It is due to the Sanskar i.e. mental impressions, the traits and tendencies of a soul, caused by past experiences and behaviour patterns of the previous birth. Sanskar is the learning aspect which is subtly registered in the soul.

Basically the process of ‘Sanskar’ has three components, namely: (http://sanskaramvatika.com/why.html)

1. Purification (Doshapanayan) – To purify a person physically, vitally mentally and to eradicate/ weed out the negative mental thoughts and tendencies, which may exist in a person at the time of his birth and/or which he may have acquired from his family and surrounding environment.
2. Making up Deficiency (Heenangpoorti) – To make up the deficiency of human values which he lacks.
3. Value Enrichment (Gunaadhaan) – To inculcate qualities and transform him into an ideal, compassionate, responsible, dutiful and outstanding human who follows his duties diligently towards himself, his family, the society and the universe.

Some people at the age of 50 or 60 read the spiritual book and believe in values. Indirectly they imbibe all these values strongly. Then these Sanskars will be transferred to his next birth and then values can be easily inculcated.