In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, USA, did something not to be forgotten.
On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom.
When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. 'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'
She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'
They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said.
'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.
Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.
The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom.
Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'
At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.
Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk.
The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall.
By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you.
They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have.
Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'
By the way, I understand that this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of Arkansas in 2006.
The Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 is one of the bills to be tabled in the Monsoon session of Parliament. It
~ entails de-licensing of the distribution business
~ bringing in competition,
~appointment of a member from the law background in every Commission
~ strengthening of APTEL,
~ a penalty for non-compliance of RPO,
~ prescribing rights and duties of consumers
Bill enables the consumer to choose the electricity provider like in other cases. Government expects private sector to own up 100% of electricity distribution in all urban areas in coming years; some 74% in rural-urban mixed areas. newsbred.com/article/electr…
Some lovely thoughts for all you morning ☕ and 🍵 lovers 💗.
A young couple had neighbours who were senior citizens, the husband around 80 years old & the wife about 5 years younger.
The young couple were very fond of the elderly couple & made it a point to visit them & have coffee with them every Sunday.
They observed that the old man would always ask the old lady to make coffee & the old lady would bring the coffee bottle to her husband to be opened, every time.
1. The concept of Bharata as it was in the eons before and how it work - a broad idea. How various practices around the sub-continent worked on common thoughts, principles that guided the concept of Bharata.
2. That this Bharata was a land of Sciences, Maths in every which way. How we had developed Calculus, Algebra, Geometry, physics, chemistry, biology and all the way to Surgery.
3. Make the kids aware of the eminent men and women. 4. Bring them and give them exposition into the world of how our ancestors worked in unison with the environment, how all the creatures / animals were taken care of.
State of Siege: Temple Attack on Zee 5. Brilliantly made movie After a long time, saw a movie. To me, it recounted the horror tale of the terrorist attack on Akshardham Temple in Gandhinagar. Absolutely gripping movie. @ZEE5India Kudos. Thanks @sssingh21 for the recommendation.
To jerks @moviesndtv it is a "unmitigated tedium" because @ndtv have sold their souls to Pakistan. And the review by @htTweets is worse than their toilet paper. @scroll_in - Buzz off. We don't need you.