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Knowledge Without Character

As dangerous as a little knowledge is, even more dangerous is much knowledge without a strong, principled character. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

One of the reasons I'm excited about taking the Seven Habits into the schools is that it is character education. Some people don't like character education because, they say, "that's your value system." But you can get a common set of values that everyone agrees on. It is not that difficult to decide, for example, that kindness, fairness, dignity, contribution, and integrity are worth keeping. No one will fight you on those. So let's start with values that are unarguable and infuse them in our education system and in our corporate training and development programs. Let's achieve a better balance between the development of character and intellect.

The people who are transforming education today are doing it by building consensus around a common set of principles, values, and priorities and debunking the high degree of specialization, departmentalization, and partisan politics.
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Who else, the all time favof guys in MBA schools and my regular full-time and bodied God of sorts- Steve Covey

Life shows you ways leading to itself and opens up opportunities which you thought were never there. I never thought that I had land up in Chennai. Never thought up that I could conduct a survey and enjoy it at the same time. Never thought bosses would be good. Never thought the organisation would be OK.Never thought would find a place to live in Chennai. Never thought of coming down to South ever unless it was for IIT Chennai. Never thought of being where I am. Made my own life, I had say.... saw my own vision and probably somewhere its worn along the way now, only to morph itself in a fresh new form.I learned somewhere to realise that life has its own answers.
I found life itself in all these years and I showed my life all these places.The places which I thought are so much there and so invisible to stupid humanity. But life taught me to respect humanity, albeit it is stupid and still preserve all my best in my heart and open it to the people who understood and loved in return, loved not only me but also the beauty around in their own manner........
In my childhood, I tried to steer a sailboat through storms and I think I do so with my own life, though not day-in and day-out but its there in the bigger picture..........................................
Will write someday else
Thoughts too hazy for that today

If forces detach it from the wing,

The feather still flies,

Lifeless, aimless,

Sometimes in a torrent,

In the rain it wets,

In the Sun it dries,

Again it flies.....

Carrying within that seed of Life.

And the bird still spans the sky,

Unaware of the one detached and once beloved,

For it still flies,

And so does the wretched

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The credit goes to the lion for removing the excessive blogstipation of mine and suggest this remedy. Finally I am unleashed. The bricks and brats are this wonderful leo's. This guy is goin places in life, just keep a check on his place the aforesaid place. Now that both of us are here, the Les' Miserables ought to follow. So here is to the first day Sumit, cheers to the works of art, mine and thine

Tis a deviated form of the original "Phuchhka" sounds cute and cuddly and crisp and edible. You guessed right (if at all you did), tis " Golgappa "