My Idea of an Educated Person Outline: The popular conception of education — a truly educated man is well-informed — he constantly learns from life — he has moral qualities — he takes care of his health — his dress and manners. Education is popularly supposed to mean getting a degree and qualifying oneself for a white-collar job. The longer the catalogue of degrees after the name of a man, the...

The Importance of Names Outline: A name has an aura about it – the fallacy of “what is in a name?” brought out – it is not desirable to change the foreign names of streets and places -names of some persons are impressive. Names have a mystic significance. A name has a subtle aura, an atmosphere about it which sums up the individuality of the person, place or thing it denotes....

Reading Novel Essay  No. 01 Outline: The prejudice against novel reading – the prejudice justified in the case of bad novels – the advantages of reading good novels – conclusion. In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a prejudice against novel-reading in Europe. It was supposed to be a waste of time. Ruskin, a major English writer of the 19th century, included novels among the books of the hour as...

No Rights without Duties Outline: An awareness of rights is recent — agitation for all kinds of rights is harmful to a country — rights involve duties — conclusion. The concept of the rights of man is recent and is associated with growth of democracy and belief in respect for the individual. In the ancient and medieval world an individual had no rights, but duties, obligations and loyalties. Consequently, there was...

Student indiscipline – Causes and Cure Outline: Introduction — the forms taken by student indiscipline — causes: the defects of our educational system — the tradition of agitation — lack of values —remedies. Of late, student indiscipline has assumed alarming proportions. Almost every third day we read in the newspapers reports of the violent activities indulged in by students and of the destruction of national property caused by them. Fortunately, some...

The Uses of Leisure Outline: Leisure is essential for civilization — its most obvious use is relaxation. it enables one to improve one’s mind — scientific inventions and artistic creations are the products of leisure — how to utilize leisure will probably be a problem of the future. Leisure is the basis of civilization. Primitive man lacked leisure, almost all his time and energy being consumed by the struggle for existence....

List of Important Descriptive and Narrative Essays 1) On Footpath Shopping. 2) Humour – the Spice of Life.  3) A Week at a Hill-station. 4) Adventures with an old Umbrella. 5) On Watching a Fashion Parade. 6) A Day on the Moon. 7) On a Boring Film. 8) A Visit to a Book-stall. 9) My Best Friend. 10) Grandmother’s Stories. 11) Last-minute Reading for the Examination. 12) On a Neighbour who...

Quick Action Saved a Precious Life At first I ignored the alarm. It sounded like a fire alarm, such as the ones we used at the fire drill in our building. I had taken part in so many fire drills that when the real thing happened I mistook it for a drill in the hospital where my Dad was a patient. Then I saw the matron running in excitedly shouting “Fire”....