Education for Character Wealth Creation Teachers as

Education for Character & Wealth Creation Teachers as Sculptors of Men & Leaders By Dr T. H. CHOWDARY Director: Center for Telecom Management and Studies Chairman: Pragna Bharati (intellect India ) Former: Chairman & Managing Director Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited & Information Technology Advisor, Government of Andhra Pradesh T: +91(40) 6667 -1191/ 2784 -6137(O) 2784 -3121® F: +91 (40) 6667 -1111, 2789 -6103 hanuman. chowdary@tcs. com thc@satyam. com

All men are created equal but in life become unequal! • Education and culture are imparted/acquired from mother & Father ( womb & Home) and Teacher (School) & Preacher (Place of worship) • Education from teacher is most influential for social conduct • Preacher, next for spiritual outlook June 2014

Guru – Indian Thought • Gururbrahma • Agnaana Timirandhasya • Gurukula • Guru Sishya Sampradaaya June 2014

Vidyarthi ~ Student • Seeker of Knowledge • Guru guides, helps the efflorescence of the divinity inside Aham Brahmasmi Luceat X Vestrov • Idam te naatapaskeya • Ignites Intelligence • Who reads/studies what the teacher tells • Examination not knowledge talent • “Education” farms like poultry (layer/ ) farms • Idiotises, dulls, dehumanises June 2014

How We Learn: Aacharyaat paadam aadhatte Paadam shishyah swamedhayaa Paadam saha bhrahmacharibhyah Paadam kaalakramena cha A person learns one quarter from his teachers, one quarter by his own intelligence, one quarter from his peers; that is; class fellows and the fourth quarter in the course of time; that is; by life’s experiences June 2014

Guru-Sishya Relationship • Piteva Putrasya Sakheva Sakhyuh Priyaayah • Mahi confiding more in teacher than in parents • Vishnu Sharma • Ekalavya – Gurubhakti • Alexander and Aristotle June 2014

Gurus ‘form’/Create Great People • Sandipani – Krishna • Drona - Kuru Pandavas • Aristotle - Alexander • The job of the master is not merely to bequeath a store of knowledge to his pupils but to instill in them a thirst for truth and inspiration and drill them in proper methods of research. • 70% of living Nobel Laureates are teaching in US Universities June 2014

All men are created equal but in life become unequal! • Education and culture are imparted/acquired from mother & Father ( womb & Home) and Teacher (School) & Preacher (Place of worship) • Education from teacher is most influential for social conduct • Preacher, next for spiritual outlook June 2014

What is education (1/3) • Education is a liberating force, enables the individual to rise form mere materiality to superior planes of intellectual and spiritual consciousness. • Education gives us accumulated lessons of heritage to carry it forward to posterity. • The past is our foundation, the present our material, the future our aim and summit. Each must have its due and natural place in a national system of education. – Sri Aurobindo June 2014

What is education (2/3) We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own feet. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man - Swami Vivekananda June 2014

What is Education (2) We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own feet. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man - Swami Vivekananda I firmly believe the efficacy of the education as a panacea for our social evils - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar June 2014

What is Education (3) Education is the process of individual mind getting its full possible development…. It is a long school which losts a life time -Dr Zakir Hussain Vidyayaa Vindate Amritam Aatmanaa Vindate Veeryam -Deathlessness is attained by knowledge Valour is attained by self (discipline) June 2014

What is Education (4) – Education aims at liberation - liberation from bondage and ignorance, backwardness and gravitational pulls of the lower human nature. Education should be so designed as to become a powerful carrier of the best of the heritage and it should, therefore, aim at transmitting to the new generations the lessons of the accumulated experiences of the past for further progress in the present and the future. Source: “Higher Education in India – Vision and Action” GOI’s paper. June 2014 for UNESCO Oct. 1998)

Education • Education is different from but includes literacy, history, facts, scholarship; skills…. • Education to enable man to realise the divine potential Aham Brahmaasmi Luceat lux Vestra • Culture is different from civilization June 2014

Spiritual values integral to secular education • Teachers & education to inculcate sense of economic equity and moral /ethical conduct to underlie economic activity. • Thought and mind regulate human conduct – power of religion and ideology • Most wars justified by invoking both to serve sectarian objectives. “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. ” - UNESCO Constitution. June 2014

Teachers must harmonise religions • If Gods are unequal, intolerant and imperial can followers be different • Was knowledge revealed once for all? Is inquiry and doubt heretical, meriting, elimination? • Are “believers” only saved and the rest are condemned to hell by the creator? • What happens if every religion markets it on commercial lines, invoking God-enjoined duty? June 2014

Teachers Education - Emigrations, globalisation & “clash” of cultures • Emigration/immigration are natural necessities & are historic • Harmonious or armed co - existence of religions/cultures’ tolerance or mutual, reciprocal respect. • History, literature; ethics; religions & ideologies to be essential component for education of teachers; humanities as well as S&T. • Rights and /or duties - Balance June 2014

Tolerance or Equal Respect “I am in the right, you are in the wrong. When you are stronger, you ought to tolerate me for it is your duty to tolerate the truth. But when I am stronger, I shall persecute you, for it is my duty to persecute errors”. - St. Augustine, one of the gentlest of Christian divines ( Religion, Rajaji and his Social Philosophy by R Srinivasan (Source: Freedom First No. 464, Jan. March 2005 Page 43) June 2014

CULTURE: • Is the sum total of one’s being towards himself; family; society and God • To know something of everything and everything of something • Is obedience to unenforceable laws • A gentleman/lady is one who never inflict pain upon others • We must so live as to “add to the sum total of happiness” in the society/world June 2014

Culture Cultivation • • Literature Memorising, reciting (Vaakshuddhi) Personal library Family Life-dining table as “Class-room” How to be a guest How to ‘meet’ – not w/o appointment Calling back/Return Calls Writing a diary June 2014

Cultural Values (1) • Namaskar • Dhanyavad • Amma, Naanna, Maama, Tata Naanamma June 2014

Cultural Values (2) • • Chiranjiva, Sukhee Bhava Jeevanthu Saradasshatam”not happy birthday” Light candles don’t extinguish Maathri Devobhava Petru Devobhava Acharyadevo Bhava Rinas (debts – Pitri, Guru, Deva, Bhuta etc) Bhavan’s Prayer; June 2014

Values that can ensure universal harmony and order (1) • Aanoh bhadraah kratavo yantu viswatah… (let noble thoughts come from all quarters of the world) • Vasudhaiva kutumbakam ( the whole earth is one family) • Ekam sat, vipraah bahudhaa vadante (The truth is one; the wise say it in many ways) • Reverence for Life - Albert Schweitzer “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. " Albert Einstein June 2014

Values that can ensure universal harmony and order (2) satyam bruyat priyam bruyat mabruyat satyamapriyam priyancha na anrutham bruyat esa dharma ssanatanaha Speak the truth, speak sweetly; speak not the hurting truth, speak not an untruth be it ever so pleasing June 2014

Values that can ensure universal harmony and order (3) • • • Om Sahanaavavatu, sahanu bhunaktu Sahaveeryam Karavaavahaih Tejasvinaavadheetamastu Maa Vidvishaavahaih, Om! Shantih, shantih! May we protect ourselves together, experience/ enjoy together, perform valorous deed together, not quarrel among ourselves, may our learning be brilliant. • Peace, peace !!! ( for all, everywhere, all the time) June 2014

Is Wealth Everything? • Where is the life we having lost in living Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries Bring us further from God and nearer to the dust – TS Eliot • Na Vittena tarpaneeyo manushyah • Man shall not live by bread alone. But by every word that proceedeth out of the month of God - Mathew IV. 2 -4 June 2014

Great Duty/Devotion • • Sravan Kumar Saavithri Nachiketa Lashmana Sita Karna Hanuman June 2014

Social Behaviour • • Sharing Co-operating Friendships Krishna & Kuchela (Sudhama)@Sandipani’s • Drona-Drupada • Pandavas- Krishna- Dhritarashtra June 2014

Patriotism (1) • Love of and reverence for motherland (Janani, janmabhoomischa swargaadapi gareeyasi) • Porus, Purushottam • Rana Pratap • Shivaji • Guru Govinda Singh • Swamy Vivekananda • Jamshetji Tata June 2014

Patriotism (2) • Bhagat Singh • Sardar Patel • Dr B R Ambedkar • Swamy Dayananda • Balagangadhar Tilak • Kaapaya, Prolaya June 2014

Patriotism (3) • “To develop fully your own character, you must know your country’s character. A plant partakes of the character of the soil in which it grows. You are a plant that is conscious, that thinks. You must study your soil – which is your country --- in order that you may be able to draw its strength up into your own strength”. -Dwight D. Eisenhover June 2014

Our Nation-hood • We have been one people, one country, one nation with many rulers. Since millennia. • Sovereignty in Dharma • Nation-state. A recent concept. • We are a compound, not a mixture • Emphasise unity ; not diversity • Glorify our heroes June 2014

Leadership • Difference in thinking, daring, innovative (Clear Vision and aim) • Knowledge, learning, excellence. • Clarity, Communication, Expression (language, body, gestures). • Information, analysis, action • Ears and eyes, feet and arms everywhere. June 2014

Who is a true leader: • Those who claim to lead the masses must resolutely refuse to be led by them, if we want to avoid mob law and desire ordered progress for the country. I believe that mere protestation of one’s opinion and surrender to the mass opinion is not only not enough, but in matters of vital importance, leaders must act contrary to the mass of opinions if it does not commend itself to their reason. - M. K. Gandhi • Leaders should lead as far as they can and vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. (As we have about a Dynasty in India) June 2014

He that is first. . . “ In every field of human endeavour, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or manufactured product, emulation or envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and destruction. If the leader truly leads, he remains-the leader…That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the calmour or denial. That which deserves to live, lives. ” (from an advertisement of Cadillac motor car company on January 2 nd, 1915) June 2014

Leadership Vs the Ignorant and the Past “Those who carry on great public schemes must be proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults and what is most of all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant” -Edmund Burke The Dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our course is new, so we must think anew and act anew. -Abraham Lincoln (at the start of the Civil War) June 2014

Vision(1) • One man with conviction is the majority • Life’s battles are often won not by those who are strong but by those who think they can. – Hannibal [30, 000 against 150, 000] – Churchill’s Battle of Britain June 2014

Vision(2) • We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles. -Thomas Alva Edison • Cities, countries and continents will be connected and people will talk to one another from anywhere, anytime, to anyone……. -Alexander Graham Bell June 2014

Vision(3) • We will make telephony cheaper than a post-card - Dhirubhai Ambani • (1978) Ghar Mein Radio Gaon Mein Telephone • (1997) Hath Mein Telephone; Gaon Mein Internet - Dr T. H. Chowdary June 2014

What a Guru should instill Lincoln‘s Letter to his son ‘s Headmaster (1) Respected Teacher, • My son will have to learn, I know • That all men are not just, all men are not true, but teach him also • That for every scoundrel, there is a Hero • That for every selfish politician, there is a dedicated leader • Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend • It will take time, I know; but teach him if you can June 2014

What a Guru should instill Lincoln‘s Letter to his son ‘s Headmaster (2) • • That a dollar earned is of far more value than five found Teach him to learn to lose and also enjoy winning Steer him away from envy, if you can Teach him the secret of quiet laughter Let him learn early that the Bullies are easiest to Lick Teach him if you can, the wonder of books… But also give him Quiet time to ponder over the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hills – side June 2014

What a Guru should instill Lincoln‘s Letter to his son ‘s Headmaster (3) • In school teach him it is far more honourable to fail than to cheat • Teach him to have faith in his own ideas even if everyone tells him they are wrong • Teach him to be gentle with gentle people and tough with the tough • Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on the Bandwagon • Teach him to listen to all men but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through • Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad • Teach him there is no shame in tears June 2014

What a Guru should instill Lincoln‘s Letter to his son ‘s Headmaster (4) • Teach him to scoff at cynics and to beware of too much sweetness • Teach him to sell his Brawn and Brain to the highest bidders, but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul • Teach him to close his Ears to a Howling Mob…. And to stand Fight • If he thinks he is right Treat him gently; but do not cuddle him because only the test of Fire Makes Fine Steel June 2014

What a Guru should instill Lincoln‘s Letter to his son ‘s Headmaster (5) • Let him have the courage to be important • Let him have the patience to brave • Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind • This is a bid order; but see what you can do • He is such a fine little fellow, my son. -----Abraham Lincoln. June 2014

Politics without principles Wealth without work Commerce without morality Knowledge without character Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity religion without sacrifice are sins verily -Mahatma Gandhi June 2014

Josiah Gilbert Holland GOD GIVE US MEN ! A TIME LIKE THIS DEMANDS STRONG MINDS, GREAT HEARTS, TRUE FAITH AND READY HANDS; MEN WHOM THE LUST OF OFFICE DOES NOT KILL; MEN WHOM THE SPOILS OF OFFICE WILL NOT BUY MEN WHO POSSESS OPINIONS AND A WILL MEN WHO HAVE HONOR AND WHO WILL NOT LIE MEN WHO CAN STAND BEFORE A DEMAGOGUE AND DAM HIS TREACHEROUS FLATTERIES WITHOUT WINKING TALL MEN, SUN-CROWNED WHO RISE ABOVE THE FOG IN PUBLIC DUTY AND PRIVATE THINKING. GIVE US THE MAN OF INTEGRITY OF WHOM WE KNOW WE CAN THOROUGHLY DEPEND; WHO WILL STAND FIRM WHEN OTHERS FAIL; THE FRIEND FAITHFUL AND TRUE IN ANCIENT SHADOWS AND TWILIGHTS WHERE CHILDHOOD HAD STRAYED THE WORLD’S GREAT SORROWS WERE BORN AND ITS HEROES WERE MADE IN THE BOYHOOD OF JUDAS CHRIST WAS BETRAYED. June 2014

The Oath Guru Administers (at the convocation) q. I exhort you as follows: • Speak the truth. • Walk in the way of the duty • Neglect not the study of higher knowledge • Treat they teacher with respect and gratitude. • And fail not in taking upon thyself the burden of life June 2014

Happiness: (1) • The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils The motious of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as E rebus Let no such man be trusted - Shakespeare in Merchant of Venice June 2014

Happiness (2) q Character of a Happy Life How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill; Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise Nor vice; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good; Who hath his life from rumours freed; June 2014

Happiness (3) Ø Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; Who God doth late and early prayMore of his grace than gifts to lend And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. -Sir Henry Wotton June 2014

DOGMA OR FREE THINKING • Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken Up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless starving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear street of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. -Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore June 2014

Entitlement, Employment, Entrepreneurship • “You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them What they could do for themselves. ” - Abraham Lincoln (Source: Freedom First, May 1989) June 2014

Wealth accumulates …. Men decay…. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay, Prices and lords may flourish or fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride When once destroyed can never be supplied - Goldsmith in Deserted village. ‘I want an India where the peasants are not beguiled or intimidated into giving up their lands for Mr. Nehru to build castles in thin air through co-operative farming…” June 2014 --Rajaji

Success and Risk • Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where other have gone. Leave the beaten path occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. It will be a little thing but do not ignore it. Follow it up; explore around it, one discovery will lead to another and before you know it, you will have something really worth thinking about Alexander Graham Bell June 2014

Success • Sow a thought and reap an act Sow an act, reap a habit Sow a habit, reap a character Sow a character, reap a destiny June 2014

Risk and Reward • I shall be telling with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence Two roads diverged in the woods and I I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference - Robert Frost June 2014

Lives of Great Men • Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And, departing, leave behind us Foot prints on the sands of time – Long fellow June 2014

Not gold, but only men Not gold but only men can make A great nation and strong Men who for truth and honour’s sake Stand fast and suffer long, Brave men who work while others sleep, who dare while others fly, They build a nation’s pillars deep ad lift them to the sky. Life’s battles do not always go To the strongest or fastest mean Soon or late the man who wins Is the who thinks he can Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth’s smoothness vough Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go! -Robert Browning June 2014

Auto-biographies/ Life story of great men • • • • • Lives of great men all remind us we may make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us foot prints on the sands of time. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Lee Kuan Yew Henry Ford Jamshedji Tata, Dhirubhai Ambani, G D Birla Khrushchev, Gorbachev Ben Gurion, Golda Mair Balagangadhar Tilak – Gita Rahasya Margaret Thatcher Irvine Shroedinger Andy Grove Einstein Oppenhammer Betrand Russel K M Munshi Rajaji June 2014 M C Chagla

Books for Reading • How to Win Friends & Influence people – Dale Carnegie • The Human side of Enterprises Douglas Mcgregor • My years with General Motors – Alfred P Sloan • A Japan which can say “No” to. America • Kautilya’s Artha Sastra • Are You Listening – Dr T H Chowdary June 2014

Books for Reading (Contd) • • • Shantiparva in Mahabharata Sundara Kanda (Ramayana) – Hanuman to Sita Gita Rahasya by Lokamanya Tilak Bharthrihari’s Subhashitas Sumathi & Vemana Satakas Rama Charita Manas – Tulasi Das Krishnavatara- K M Munshi Mahabharata- Rajaji Ramayana – Rajaji Upanishads- Rajaji Our Culture- Rajaji June 2014

BHARAT MAHAN! “If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow-in some parts a very paradise on earth - I should point to India. If I were to asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed the choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solution of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant - I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thought of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more truly human, a life not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life -- again I should point to India”. -MAX MULLER June 2014

BHARAT MAHAN! “India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages; she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all”. -WILL DURANT June 2014

BHARAT MAHAN! “Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of the sectarianism. It is of ages, climes, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I am at it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night”. -HENRY DAVID THOREAU June 2014

Bharat Mahan We owe a lot to Indians, who taught us how to count, w/o which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made”. . . I have made the Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigation and formation of my theories. - Dr. Albert Einstein P 3, Aakaaraadhyaksha: Suptd of Mines June 2014

Bharat Mahan…. After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect none so scientific none so philosophical and none so spiritual than the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. Make no mistake, without Hinduism, India has no future. Hinduism is the soil into which India’s roots are stuck and torn out of that she will inevitably wither as a tree torn out from its place. And if Hindus do not maintain Hinduism, who shall save it? If India’s own children do not cling to her faith, who shall guard it? India alone can save India and Hinduism are one. - Annie Besant June 2014

Dhanyawad: Thank You June 2014