Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Why only English???





English is a not just an ordinary language, it's a charismatic language, it's a phenomena. English is the most effective and essential language today. A language that enhances our confidence.
 In past it was a prerogative of prominent people, it was the language of rulers and not the ruled. It was a language of elite class not meant for the masses. It has spread everywhere in the world. Today people can't do without it. For millions it's a source of bread n butter.


Today everyone wants to possess it @ any cost. Even the poorest parents want their children to imbibe this language. In fact it has become a lingua franca of the whole world. People who hold command over it feel proud. Good knowledge of it is considered an asset. The whole world has become its market. It's a sellable commodity.


Speaking it effectively is considered a sp. qualification. Millions of people get lucrative jobs just because they can effectively communicate in this language. It's a confidence enhancing language. It has already gained a status of universal language. It's an effective tool of communication in modern world and it's also a bugbear for many.

It's known for its erratic nature and hence it's called a crazy language. Once it was a poor language but today it has become the richest language in terms of vocabulary by adopting word from many different languages. Nobody can ever claim to write it perfectly. Its pronunciations are often perplexing. It's a very convincing language. Today it's must for everyone so learn it and master it. If a person like me can learn, even without going to school then you too can learn.



The real ASSET





Knowledge is the real asset of a person and it's indestructible. With knowledge we can create Health, Wealth and Fame. This asset is movable and nobody can see it unless we show it. We can carry it wherever we wish without feeling the burden or risk of it. We can regain our lost property and consolidate our reputation in society.



Knowledge is a real POWER because it empowers our mind to do any task or attain any feat. All inventions are the result of knowledge. Whatever we see around us particularly man-made are the result of someone's imagination and knowledge.



We must have right knowledge to live and enjoy our life. An ignorant person is like a blind and knowledge is the light which dispel the darkness. We ought to have right and sufficient knowledge to make our life good. Knowledge is the thing which sets us apart from animals. We should update and enhance our knowledge on regular basis.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Utkarsh The youngest professor










I am 15 years old and perhaps world's youngest English professor. I wish to create a history in teaching.

I wish to teach teachers how to impart knowledge entertainingly without burdening the student's mind. I wish to bring back the dignity to this profession. I wish that a learner should respect his teacher. I wish that India should be a knowledge hub of the world. Students from all over the world should come to India for quality education. I wish that people should give more importance to KNOWLEDGE because it's the real power as well as ASSET of a person. And I am doing my best to convert my wishes into reality.

I apologize for writing “I” so many times.
I started my schooling in the year 2000. Not trying to boast, I would say I was a brilliant student who was a victim of bias. My pedagogue and principal were acquaintances of the class topper. In our tuition classes whenever we competed against each other I always outstood him. But in schools during the exams his grades were always higher than mine. I sensed some prejudice that was against me. My skills in painting and craft were appreciated in the ent ire school & society. I even helped my class in painting. Yet I scored a C-Grade in painting while my most of friends scored B-Grade and the top scorers got A-grade.

The reason-
1. Anger or Revenge against the complaint made by my father about a teacher who wrongly punished the students and lazed around in the class instead of teaching.
2. The top-ranker’s mom being a friend of the school-head.
That infuriated me. But I tolerated it. In those days I used to attend the lectures of my dad therefore I befriended many youngsters elder to me. From them I learnt that a person needs to struggle a lot to get employed in after studying. Many even do undeserving petty jobs. Then I even came across abundance of newspaper-articles about unemployment. They said “All illiterate people are employed & many of educated and qualified people are unemployed.

That set me thinking. When I completed my second standard I left school. But I started missing my friends. I rarely talked with boys of my aged fearing what I would say about my studies. During that time I used to study with graduates at my dad’s classes.

Next year I joined the school again as a third grade. Now I felt that things had changed with me. I had matured more than my friends. I was better in my studies than I was previously. I mingled more with the boys elder to me than those equivalents to me. Many a times I got opportunities to teach my class, my friends.


I kept studying till Fifth grade. There I scored 92% as my result. The month was April when the vacation began. During that time my dad started a branch of our institute in Vapi (Vapi- An industrial area in Gujarat.) So during the vacation I tried my hand at teaching. We also had faculties over there. So with then I started teaching. After a month a day came when I had to handle the whole institute on my own as the faculties were absent for a couple of days. There came my first student who was attended full by me. He was a thirty-five years old manager of a company in Daman. He talked to me and agreed to join the class from the next day. He came. He had brought the fees with him. I received the amount from him. It was a big thing for me as I had earned a huge amount of money on my own. He appreciated my teaching. I taught him whole-heartedly and in return I got a gift from him at the end of his course. During that time a lady who was educated from Bangalore joined my dad as a student. Many a times I used to compete with her and I turned out to be scoring as much as her. One day I even taught her. So like this I taught many students. Therefore I left my schooling from the next year.