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Teachers as Gurusto Build a
Prosperous, Powerful, Intellectual & Ethical India
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 PradeshT: +91(40) 5567-1191/ 2784-6137(O) 2784-3121®
F: +91 (40) 5567-1111, 2789-6103hanuman.chowdary@tcs.com
thc@satyam.com Talk @ Osmania University, Hyderabad : 8 Feb 2008
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Dr T.H.ChowdaryAt present: Director : Center for Telecom Management & Studies
Chairman : Pragna Bharati, Andhra Pradesh Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services & Satyam Computer Services
Formerly: Information Technology Advisor: Government of Andhra Pradesh
Founder Chairman & Managing Director, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd Dy.Director General: Department of Telecoms, Government of India
Presidnet: Institution of Electronics and Telecom Engineers, IndiaChiarman: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Hyderabad Kendra
Governor : INTELSAT, WashingtonExecutive Director : INMARSAT – London
Chief Technical Adviser : UNDP in Guyana and YemenUNDP/ ITU Expert : South Africa and Nepal
Address:Plot No. 8, P&T Colony, Karkhana (Secunderabad), Hyderabad - 500 009.
Phone : +91 (40) 2784-6137, 6667-1191 (Off) & 2784-3121 (Res)Fax : +91 (40) 6667-1111, 2789-6104 (Off)
E-Mail: hanuman.chowdary@tcs.com & thc@satyam.com
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Education
• Vidya: Vid to know
• Discovering the divine potential
• Learning and excellence
• Guru as Guide, Father, friend and lover
• Continuous learning
• Vidyarthi Student
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Guru’s ‘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
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Gurudevo Maheswarah:! WHY
• Agnana timirandhasya gnananjana salaakayaa Chakshurun meelitam yena …
• Piteva Putrasya, Sakheva Sakhyuh Priyah Priyaah
• Vidyarthi & Student• Taittiriya Upanishad – Knowable• Kathopanishad – Nachiketa & Yama• Aham Brahmaasmi Luceat
Lux Vestra• Vishnu Sarma: Greatest Pedagogue
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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
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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)
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•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)
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Instill Culture in Students
• Obedience to unenforceable laws
• Adding to the sum total of happiness
• Memorising Satakas (Sumathi & Vemana) & Subhashitas (Bhartrihari)
• Lincoln’s Letter to the Teacher of his son
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Lincoln’s Letter to the Teacher of his son (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 • 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
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Lincoln’s Letter to the Teacher of his son (2)
• 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 • 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• 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.
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Values in Bharatiya Vidya
• Na vittena Tarpaneeyo manushyah
• Atmana vindate Veeryam
Vidyaya vindate Amritam
• Isa vasyamidam Jagat
• Parasparam Bhavayansah
Sreyo Paramavaapsyatha
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What Values (1)
Aatmaupanyena sarvatra samam pasyati
Itite gnaanamaakhyaatam.......
Guhyaat guhyataram mayaa
Etadaseshena vimrasya yathechasi, tathaa kuru
- Bh.Gita 18:62
No dogma freedom to think and act
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What Values (2)
• Respect for elders & others – Matru devo bhava…….Sravan Kumar…….
• Lokasangraha• Patriotism (& nationalism)
– Jananee Janma Bhoomischa Swargaadapi Gariyasi......– Kacha’s example
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The Oath Guru Administers
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
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How do we learn?
Paadam gurubhyah
Paadam brahmachaaribhyah
Paadam swamedhayaa
Paadam kaalakramenacha
• Life-long learning for
Life-long employability
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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
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Happiness (2)
Character of a Happy Life
How happy is he born and taughtThat 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 careOf public fame or private breath;Who envies none that chance doth raiseNor vice; who never understoodHow deepest wounds are given by praise;Nor rules of state, but rules of good;Who hath his life from rumours freed;
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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 lendAnd entertains the harmless dayWith a religious book or friendThis man is freed from servile bandsOf hope to rise or fear to fall;Lord of himself, though not of lands,And having nothing, yet hath all.
-Sir Henry Wotton
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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 brokenUp 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 desertsand of dead habit;Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and actionInto that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
-Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
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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 themWhat they could do for themselves.” - Abraham Lincoln
(Source: Freedom First, May 1989)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dhanyawad:Thank You
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BHARAT MAHAN!(Intellectuals estimate of India)
India is the only country which never
invaded any foreign country
“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without even having to send a single soldier across her border”.- HU SHIH, Former Ambassador of China to USA
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Bhaskaracharya (5th century AD) calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds
ofyears before the astromer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: 365.258756484 days.
The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived
from the Sanskrit words NAV Gatih. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit ‘Nou’
BHARAT MAHAN! : Science & Technology
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Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, and he explained the concept of what is known as the
Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Sridharacharya propounded quadratic equations
in the 11th century.
BHARAT MAHAN! : Science & Technology
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The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 1053 with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest
used number is Peta: 1015.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
India invented the Number System.
Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
BHARAT MAHAN! : Science & Technology
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Sushruta is the father of surgery, 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like
cesareans, cataracts, artificial legs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment was used. Deep knowledge of
anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity
is also found in many texts.
BHARAT MAHAN! : Science & Technology
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Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine
consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Yoga and Ayurveda are fast regaining its rightful place in
our civilization.
The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra. According to Saka King
Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake aptly called ‘Sudarshana’ was constructed on the hills of Raivataka
during Chandragupta Maurya’s time.
BHARAT MAHAN! : Science & Technology
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“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!
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“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!
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“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!
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“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!
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• 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 can do for themselves -Abraham Lincoln
Instill this Wisdom
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Dhanyawad:Thank You