00:00Thank you for listening.
00:45If you are a human being, you are bound to have some problem or the other in your life, at
00:50some time or the other. And what one needs to do is not to give up.
00:55That's what the teachers need to know. That's what the students need to know.
01:00That is what makes teaching such a remarkable profession. In many professions, you can see the result of your work
01:08immediately.
01:08A doctor treats a patient and sees the recovery. But a teacher may have to wait years, sometimes decades, to
01:17see the full impact of his or her work.
01:20You may teach a student today, but years later, the student may return to the campus and say, Sir, Madam,
01:30do you remember me?
01:32Perhaps they will add, you believed in me when I did not believe in myself. I cannot think of many
01:40rewards greater than that.
01:42Dr. Rambetka did not see education merely as a qualification. He understood education as a force for empowerment, dignity, independence
01:54and social transformation.
01:56He famously said, cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence, which is so very true.
02:06Every single day, every single day we need to cultivate our mind, remove all the negativities.
02:13Like how when you cultivate a farm, you know, my grandmother used to tell me when they used to cultivate
02:18in our farms, every day they used to weed out not only the thorns, but also stones in the field.
02:25Okay, so similarly, we need to weed out all the negativities on a daily basis and culture the positivities in
02:34our minds to be a better human being, to be a contented human being, to be a happy human being.
02:42Education creates capabilities.
