Monday,
28 March, 2016
St.
Jude’s College, Thoothoor
Feast
of Jude, the Apostle [Jude/Judas Thaddaeus]
Eph
2:19-22/ Lk 6:12-19 (Wednesday, 28th October 2015)
- ‘…you
are no longer strangers and sojourners, but... fellow
citizens with the saints and
members of the household of God…’
- ‘…and all
night he continued in prayer to God. And when it was day, he
called his disciples, and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles… Judas
the son of James’
St.
Jude’s College: 1980 – nearly 35 years… the founding fathers (Borgia et al)…
the fight for power, position and possession… left the staff/college divided…
creating indiscipline… poor results… not any real credits…
-
Opened a flood gate of higher education/art & science education changing
the face of this region…
-
colleges started after this have grown to great heights… but for our internal
strife, would have become a real beacon of excellence… now it is a bone of
contention among warring groups… leaving the students at a loss..
-let
us all strive our best to take it to the place it deserves through our
committed staff and interested/concerned students…
…
the patron of hopeless cases, and of things almost despaired/ desperate
cases and lost causes/ impossible things…
- ‘தெய்வத்தால் ஆகாதெனினும் முயற்சி-
தன்/
மெய்வருத்த கூலி தரும்.’
- ‘லட்சியம் நிச்சயம் வெல ஒரு கனவுகண்டால் அது தினம் முயன்றால் ஒரு நாளில் நிஜமாகும்/
உன்னை வெல்ல யாருமில்லை...ஒரு முடிவிருந்தால் அதில் தெளிவிருந்தால் அந்த வானம்
வசமாகும்... (ஒவ்வொரு பூக்களுமே...)
· There
are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph
Brodsky
· I
have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein
“A
goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to
aim at.” – Bruce Lee
· The
policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. – Jawaharlal Nehru
· ‘The
whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into window.’ – Sydney J
· Never
stop learning, because life never stops teaching….
Disciples
(students) as friends…
The guru-shishya
tradition, lineage, or parampara, denotes a succession of teachers and
disciples in traditional Indian culture
and religions such as Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism(Tibetan and Zen
tradition). It is the tradition of spiritual relationship and mentoring where
teachings are transmitted from a guru "teacher"
(Sanskrit: गुरु) to a śiṣya "disciple"
(Sanskrit: शिष्य) or chela. (‘No longer do I call you servants, for
the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends,
for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.’ Jn 15:15)
The term "Upanishad" derives from the
Sanskrit words "upa" (near), "ni" (down) and "şad" (to sit) — so it means "sitting down near" a
spiritual teacher to receive instruction. (‘…brought
up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel…’ Acts 22:3)
Chela has two main
meanings. One derivation comes from Sanskrit (cela),
meaning "slave" or "servant". In Hindi (celaa),
the word means "disciple, pupil." The other derivation comes from Greek (chele) and Latin (chela),
meaning "claw", now
specifically that of an arthropod.
- Jesus in fact washed the feet of his disciples – ‘came to
serve; not to be served…’
- ‘Don’t lord it over like the heathens… those who want to be
the first be the last…’
- Though in the form of God, Jesus lowered himself to take the
form of man…’
Child
Prodigy:
Let us not low estimate children/students; may be that they are much ahead of
us…
· Srinivasa
Ramanujan (1887–1920),
was an Indian
mathematician and autodidact who,
with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, learned
college-level mathematics by age 11, and generated his own theorems
in number
theory and Bernoulli
numbers by
age 13 (including
independently re-discovering Euler's
identity).
- Akshay Venkatesh (born
1981), won a bronze medal at the International Physics Olympiad at
11 years of age. Won a Bronze medal at the International
Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
at 12.
Graduated university at age 15 with a double major in
mathematics/physics. Finished his PhD at 20 from Princeton
University. Associate Professor at 23.
- Kautilya
Pandit (born
2007) displays good
memory power regarding current affairs, general knowledge and
geographical statistics. He
could recollect details of 213 countries and can answer
questions about world geography, per capita income, gross domestic
product, politics, the economy, etc. Psychologists
from Kurukshetra University have noted the grasping powers of
Kautilya and expressed their desire to investigate his recalling capacity.
C.R.Darolia, Chairman, Psychology Department said that "the boy is a
wonder kid and he may have IQ around 130 which is rare for his age
group."
- Shakuntala
Devi (1929–2013)
was an Indian prodigy mental calculator, who was known for her
very rapid calculation abilities - despite having no formal education.
- Rabindranath Tagore -
Indian poet, short story writer, song composer, novelist, playwright,
essayist and painter and a Nobel Laureate (first Asian to win the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1913), wrote his first poem when he was
only eight years old. He published his first large poetry
collection in 1877. He wrote his first short story and dramas when
he was only 16 years of age.
- Garry
Kasparov was
a chess child prodigy who ranked in the top 15
players in the world at age 16 and is considered by many as the
greatest chess player of all time. He became the World Chess
Champion at the age of 22, the youngest of all time.
- Bobby
Fischer won
the United States Chess Championship at 14 years
old and became, at the age of 15, the youngest Grandmaster in
history at the time. He became the World Chess Champion in 1972.
· Magnus
Carlsen was,
at the age of 13 years,
148 days, the second-youngest chess Grandmaster of all time… and youngest player to be ranked No. 1
in the world by FIDE. His peak rating is 2882, the highest
in history.
-
Pancretius/28.10.2015
