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Hi,

It was celebration time for the 273 students of the
ISB (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad - which has collaboration
with the Kellogg`s School of Management and the London School of
Economics apart from several other institutes world over which has
student exchange programmes. All the students of the PG programme in
Management have been recruited again this year in globally well-known
companies like Novartis, Microsoft, Satyam, Mckinsey and many others.

Speaking at the convocation Mr. Daniel Vasella, Chairman & CEO of
Novartis AG urged the outgoing passing students to consistently
develop their skills by observing, analyzing, understanding and
learning new things. His next piece of advise was even more
stronger, "Developing a strong character, is crucial, to resist the
temptations of money and power that will prevent young people from
reaching new heights and also reaching their potential.

This was followed by another piece of advise from ISB`s Chairman Mr.
Rajat Gupta, "Follow ethics and values which will give you immense
satisfaction than even earning billions."

What is it that is inferred from what these two successful gentlemen
said. In fact, their advise is about the same as many who think on
similar lines, which includes a lot among us, but we do not get an
opportunity to say it in the print media. Not for any other reason
except that you are not interviewed or sought out like famous people
would be. Anyway nothing in the world can stop us think
like "champions," or "industry captains," or "intellectual`s,"
or "spiritual leaders."

The following lines of this essay is of the illuminated mind of of
Sri Sri Ravishanker, The Art of Living Guru who elaborates on this,
aspect of self-discovery and according to him…..

Only education that can nourish inbuilt virtues can impart true
intelligence.

Today, the concern of every parent is that their children should grow
up to be well educated human beings, with certain values in their
lives, and eventually they should be happy. Reasonable aspiration and
fair enough to think that way, but, somewhere along the line, the
link to happiness appears to be getting squashed and severed. Perhaps
we are losing to reach the goal of happiness.

Look at a baby, then a child, what a beautiful smile they have
whatever region, religion, colour, caste or creed they belong to.
What joy and friendliness it exudes. But see the face of the same
child by the time it gets to middle school after the primary and the
to the high school from the middle, and then on to colleges and
higher education. Do you see the same joy retained on the face of
this kid as it was endowed as an infant, or a growing up? The answer
most certainly is "No."

This is what we need to examine, and think; is there anyway that the
innocence of the individual can be retained despite growing up,
despite maturing? If this can be achieved, then we`d have attained
something really marvelous, because innocence brings with it an
inexplicable beauty.( How true...)

Even an ignorant person can be innocent, but such innocence does not
have much value. An intelligent person can be devious and crooked,
then does intelligence have much value. What is really worth having
on this planet is an intelligence that compliments innocence, an
intelligence that doesn`t destroy innocence.

Can this value system be inculcated early in the child`s learning so
that every child learns to be loving and friendly? In schools and
colleges, if you ask the children how many friends they have and they
will count them on fingers – one, two, three, four, five… not more
than that. Amazing isn`t it as to how they make this choice. One
question therefore comes to mind., If a child doesn`t know to be
loving and with the 40-50 children with whom they spend most of their
academic time being present with them in the classroom, and in the
play fields, how will they become friendly with the 6 billion people
on this planet and the world over.( As a HR professional..how many of us r really in synch with the employees of our repective organizations?..)

The basic habit of making friends has been lost somewhere in the
pursuit of selfish education and competition. Children therefore
should be encouraged by the parents and their teachers to make a new
friend everyday.

Like the protons and neutrons that are in the center of each atom,
while the negatively charged particles are on the circumference,
similarly human consciousness, mind and life also, all the negatives
are in the periphery. At the core of every living being there is this
positive virtue. And if we are successful in finding the means to
nourish this virtue, we will see the children growing up to youth and
then to grow up to become radiant human beings endowed with great
human values.

To most people the sign of true and lasting success is a smile (which
nobody can take away from you , and that which you can give away
liberally as you don`t lose anything at all) together with
friendliness, compassion and the willingness to serve each other
without any expectations, then we will have a world of peace and
love, because it`s very painful to hear that there are shoot-outs in
colleges today and there are things happening in schools (the
incident in a Delhi Public school involving two students in intimate
acts), that was unheard off anytime before. It is high time that we
all came together to identify ways and means of restoring the
respect, honour and dignity that education has commanded historically.

The need of the day is broad-minded and broad-based education
accompanied by a warm heart. It is no use if you acquire good
education and then you look down upon everybody else. A well-educated
person is one who is friendly and compassionate who can be "nobody"
without everybody.

And whether terrorism has its roots in the leftist doctrines, they
are all spawned in our schools and colleges. That`s where the
children and the youth start reflecting what is, what is right and
what is wrong; which in turn, leads to deliberation as to what they
should do to put the entire world right. A multi-cultural, multi-
faith open-mindedness can come from education alone. Even if a small
part of this planet is left ignorant on this level, the world will
still be a safe place to be.

So all thinkers, big or small and the good minds of the society today
must ponder on a holistic, healthy education that will help us retain
the values which we are all naturally endowed with. Together, we must
help spread the significance of human values, broadmindedness and
warmth in their hearts. That should be the only goal when we are
bringing up our children.

Regards
Arun
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