Education Essentials & Life's Knowledge Necessity

Excellence in one’s life is all about having self-belief and a resolve to consistently strive at self improvement because success is a ‘continuously moving’ (upwards!) target. Continued self improvement is an enjoyable journey if you break it up into small achievable tasks. Taking expert help is advisable as you avoid common pitfalls and many embarrassing situations. It pays to have an unbreakable faith in society’s education infrastructure that was created to specifically create successful people armed with knowledge and skills that society needs to grow. Add to this the never ending power of All Mighty to help you with the right wisdom and fortunate miracles.

Hey isn’t it more comforting to think that there is some ‘super-power’ that is always ready to help you, no matter who you are and where you were born. All that's needed to invoke this divine power is to pray regularly and never ever loose faith…to be the best you can be requires faith in God’s doings and following His good teachings captured in planned education too. Only through proper education and a good human attitude can you rise above your negative cycle of life-mishaps, and negative surroundings. With this positive success-attitude and committed learning you begin to see your own problems as part of a larger corrective (divine) plan. It’s His way to help you discover a better, more fulfilling path to your continued glory.

Learning from the heart - SIP program with Shri Ram Foundation

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” Aristotle

We are an eight member team working with the SRF Foundation (part of the SRF group, one of SOIL’s industry consortium members). The objective of SRF Foundation is to reform rural education. As part of the SIP program at SOIL, Ankush, Uttara, Nataraj, Bhavesh, Rahul, Suraj, Vinay and Santosh are visiting various villages and documenting their schooling experiences.

The SRF Foundation is working to create a world class platform for sustainable education transformation. As part of its Model School Programme, the foundation has adopted 25 schools in Mewat Districit of Haryana and is addressing various issues in these schools. We, as students of SOIL are working closely with the foundation to study the problems in these schools and prepare individual cases for them.

The team till date has visited 9 of the 25 schools as part of our project learning and have taken away more learnings in this short period of time than we could have ever imagined. Challenges are many as we progress into this project; however, our belief in the project motivates us day-in and day-out.

Blind cannot lead the blind, thus, if we are to think of ourselves as the leaders of tomorrow, then we must be aware of every aspect of our environment. And what this project has done for us is that it has made us conscious of the disparity that exists in the Indian education system. It is heart-rending to see children learn in an environment where there is paucity of books, teachers and infrastructure. Here, the students are not motivated to attend the school for the value of education but only for the mid-day meal. So how does a system survive, when there is no hunger for education?

As we further along on this project, we are becoming acutely aware of the tasks and challenges that lie before us. However, we are hopeful that our emotions and hard work put in the project will not just replicate itself in the generous donors but also reflect in our future professional lives. And as the course rolls out, we are proud of our contribution as students of SOIL to a larger interest of the country.

Submitted by : Ankush, Uttara, Nataraj, Bhavesh, Rahul, Suraj, Vinay and Santosh