Student Participation in The Administration of Educational Institutions   The student problem has posed itself as one of the most difficult in modern societies. Never before in the history of mankind has this problem been so acute. Yet there has never been so systematic an effort, on so stupendous a scale, as now throughout the world to overcome this problem. Never before was the university campus under such grip of demonstrations,...

Ends and Means   Gandhiji was an exponent of the principle that the means were as important as the end. He asserted that if a good or lofty end was achieved through questionable or improper ‘means, it was not worth its achievement. He declared that in such cases, the accomplishment of the end would be only illusionary and transitory. The incorrect and immoral means adopted would finally nullify and neutralize the...

Modernity   Modernity is a movement for a self-conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression. Since the earliest times, human society has comprised persons who are orthodox, believing in rituals and superstitions and others who are progressive and modern and can look ahead. The basic difference between the modern and the orthodox in different ages, however, arises from the fact that human thought and practice...

Curiosity   Most of the world’s leaders of philosophy and thought attribute their achievement to their sense of curiosity which is defined as a deep desire to seek knowledge and to find the truth about life and matter, why and how of what goes about in the world. Curiosity is of two kinds—idle and real. The latter category is responsible for the world’s major achievements in the different fields. Idle curiosity...

Ambition  Essay No. 01 Happy is the land that has no history, for history is a record of the battles and wars waged by kings and emperors to gratify their vaulting ambitions. In their lust for more lands and riches, they spread havoc and devastation, here, there, and everywhere. There is hardly a crime against humanity which they did not commit, hardly a sin that did not stain their conscience. Their...

History Never Repeats Itself   History has its own course; times have their own tides, periods have their own currents and epochs have their own irresistibility’s. History has its unbroken and unbreakable march; it follows its course. It leaves behind what outgrows its utility and it forges new traits as the circumstances necessitate. These can be termed as implicit but irresistible movements of history. Although there is a unity in history,...

Shyness   According to the dictionary meaning, a person is said to be shy when he is disposed to avoid any person or a thing. A shy person is easily frightened, is hesitant in committing himself, is marked by sensitive diffidence. A shy person is bashful, coy and exhibits a timid reserve, always shirking from familiarity or contact with others. A shy person’s diffidence stresses a distrust of one’s own ability...

“The Old Order Changed, Yielding Place To New” Change in all things is sweet, says a Greek proverb; and there is nothing permanent except change, says another. Change is the law of nature. The crust of the earth, the surface of the sea, the face of the sky are all undergoing daily and hourly changes. The rotation of the earth on its axis, the revolution of the earth resulting in change...