1. 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 Talk @ Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hyderabad : 2 Jan 2013

2. THC_CTMSS685_July'082 Guru – Indian Thought Gururbrahma Agnaana Timirandhasya Gurukula Guru Sishya Sampradaaya

3. THC_CTMSS685_July'083 Vidyarthi ~ Student Seeker of Knowledge Guru guides, helps the efflorescence of the divinity inside Aham Brahmasmi Luceat X Vestrov Idam te na- atapaskeya Ignites Intelligence Who reads/studies what the teacher tells Examination not knowledge talent “Education” farms like poultry (layer/ ) farms Idiotises, dulls, de- humanises

4. THC_CTMSS685_July'084 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

5. THC_CTMSS685_July'085 Guru-Sishya Relationship Piteva Putrasya Sakheva Sakhyuh Priyah Priyaayah Mahi confiding more in teacher than in parents Vishnu Sharma Ekalavya – Gurubhakti Alexander and Aristotle

6. THC_CTMSS685_July'086 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

7. THC_CTMSS685_July'087 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

8. THC_CTMSS685_July'088 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 What is education (2/3)

9. THC_CTMSS685_July'089 I firmly believe the efficacy of the education as a panacea for our social evils - Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Vidyayaa Vindate Amritam Aatmanaa Vindate Veeryam -Deathlessness is attained by knowledge Valour is attained by self (discipline) What is education (3/3)

10. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0610 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

11. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0611 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

12. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0612 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

13. THC_CTMSS685_July'0813 Cultural Values (1) Namaskar Dhanyavad Amma, Naanna, Maama, Tata Naanamma

14. THC_CTMSS685_July'0814 Cultural Values (2) Chiranjiva, Sukhee Bhava Jeevanthu Saradasshatam Maathri Devobhava Petru Devobhava Acharyadevo Bhava Rinas (debts – Pitri, Guru, Deva, Bhuta etc) Bhavan’s Prayer;

15. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0615 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

16. THC_CTMSS685_July'0816 Great Duty/Devotion Sravan Kumar Saavithri Nachiketa Lashmana Sita Karna

17. THC_CTMSS685_July'0817 Social Behaviour Sharing Co-operating Friendships Krishna & Kuchela (Sudhama)@Sandipani’s Drona-Drupada Pandavas- Krishna- Dhritarashtra

18. Patriotism (1) Love of and reverence for motherland (Janani, janmabhoomischa swargaadapi gareeyasi) Porus, Purushottam Rana Pratap Shivaji Guru Govinda Singh Swamy Vivekananda Jamshetji Tata THC_CTMSS685_July'0818

19. THC_CTMSS685_July'0819 Patriotism (2) Bhagat Singh Sardar Patel Dr B R Ambedkar Swamy Dayananda Balagangadhar Tilak Kaapaya, Prolaya

20. 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 THC_CTMSS685_July'0820

21. 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 THC_CTMSS685_July'0821

22. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0622 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.

23. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0623 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)

24. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0624 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 2nd, 1915)

25. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0625 “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) Leadership Vs the Ignorant and the Past

26. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0626 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

27. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0627 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

28. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0628 Vision(3) We will make telephony cheaper than a post-card - Dhirubhai Ambani (1978) Ghar Ghar Mein Radio Gaon Gaon Mein Telephone (1997) Hath Hath Mein Telephone; Gaon Gaon Mein Internet - Dr T.H.Chowdary

29. THC_CTMSS685_July'0829 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

30. THC_CTMSS685_July'0830 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

31. THC_CTMSS685_July'0831 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

32. THC_CTMSS685_July'0832 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 and Fight If he thinks he is right Treat him gently; but do not cuddle him because only the test of Fire Makes Fine Steel

33. THC_CTMSS685_July'0833 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.

34. 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 S664_Mar 201234thc_ctms

35. Josiah Gilbert Holland GOD GIVE US MEN ! 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. THC_CTMSS685_July'0835

36. THC_CTMSS685_July'0836 The Oath Guru Administers (at the convocation)  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

37. THC_CTMSS685_July'0837 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

38. THC_CTMSS685_July'0838 Happiness (2)  Character of a Happy Life How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is his 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;

39. THC_CTMSS685_July'0839 Happiness (3)  Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great; Who God doth late and early pray\More 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

40. THC_CTMSS685_July'0840 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

41. THC_CTMSS685_July'0841 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)

42. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0642 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…” --Rajaji Wealth accumulates ….Men decay….

43. THC_CTMSS685_July'0843 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

44. THC_CTMSS685_July'0844 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

45. THC_CTMSS685_July'0845 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

46. THC_CTMSS685_July'0846 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

47. THC_CTMSS685_July'0847 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 M C Chagla

48. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0648 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” toAmerica Kautilya’s Artha Sastra Are You Listening – Dr T H Chowdary

49. THC_ CTMSS304_Aug0649 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

50. THC_CTMSS441_March 1050 “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 BHARAT MAHAN!

51. THC_CTMSS441_March 1051 “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 BHARAT MAHAN!

52. THC_CTMSS441_March 1052 “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 BHARAT MAHAN!

53. 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 P3, Aakaaraadhyaksha: Suptd of Mines S664_Mar 201253thc_ctms

54. 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 S664_Mar 201254thc_ctms

55. 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 India and Hinduism are one. - Annie Besant S664_Mar 201255thc_ctms

56. THC_CTMSS441_March 1056 Dhanyawad: Thank You