STUDENTS AND POLITICS

STUDENTS AND POLITICS:
Politics is the refuge of scoundrels said Dr. Johnson. In fact a politician if he wants to be a success, should either be rogue or become a rogue after entering politics. It is not possible for an honest man to remain in politics for a long time because one has to tell lies, make false promises and think of one's own interest. Despite these negative aspects of politicians it has glamour and attraction. A number of people with the remote hoe of coming to the top ruin their careers. Moreover politics is so much time consuming that it is not possible for a person to devote attention to anything else.
      By keeping the above mentioned aspects of politics we can say that students should not take part in the politics. The primary duty of the students is towards their education: they should not indulge in politics because it will divert their attention and make them to follow the wrong path. If they neglect their studies their whole life will be unhappy. Politics would create a tension in their mind and they would always be thinking of staging a show down of the other party. On the other hand studies need a very balanced and patient approach.
    By bringing politics to the universities and colleges we will make them unsuitable for helping the nation to progress. Young people are enthusiastic so is their zest for bringing certain changes. They do certain things which may not be in the larger interest of the country. Politics if indulged in bimmature people may endanger democracy. So it is said that the students being immatured their thinking should never indulge in politics because it is not in the national interest.
  Students can easily be exploited by the politician for their persons ends. They try to utilize the youth force for their personal benefit. This tendency is also not conductive to the welfare of the nation. This type of exploitation generally results in violence. In fact the students are not so much interested in politics as the politicians want them to be. The politician generally try to pick up one or the other problem concerning universities or colleges and make the students to agitate against it. The worst part of it is that the college and the university teachers are themselves politicians or they have politician affiliations. So in order to win favor of their patrons they try to make capital out of the situation. Till this interference by the politicians in the affairs of universities or colleges is not stopped it may not be possible to weed out politics from universities and colleges. So students will stop taking part in politics if the politician observe the code of conduct and do not keep their personal interest in mind.
   Some may say that complete indifference to politics will make the students politically ignorant. On the other hand in a democratic, state citizens must be politically awake. They may into that till students take part in politics they will not be acquired of good citizens. They should understand politics though they should not take part in it. College unions create unhealthy atmosphere but unfortunately there are patronised by the political parties. Educational institution should be completely free from politics....:)

MY FIRST DAY AT THE COLLEGE

MY FIRST DAY AT THE COLLEGE:
Dreams of the future are always more beautiful and charming than the realities today. As soon as i appeared in the 10th examination. I started thinking of free independent and interesting life of the college. My elder brother used to tell me that life in a college is more a fun than a serious effort to get education. A college is a place for making friends and for chalking out program talk of examinations and tests, strikes are organized. This description of the college life was in sharp contrast to the schools life which i had seen for 12 years. So called discipline for the school had bored me and the attitude of teachers in making us to feel that they know everything upon earth had developed a positive hatred for the school life. That is why i was dreaming of the college life.
    The first day at the college was considered to be an important one because there used to be ragging in the college. The seniors would make the new comers to indulge in strange actions. So the seniors had worked out their own strategies and we had decided to act together. So as we entered the college we met a few seniors who were approaching us with an air of superiority. They asked us to stop but subdue immediately. Then they asked us do strange things like singing ridiculous songs and doing monkey pranks. The sense of self dignity in me did not allow me to act according to  their wishes till they forced me to obey their orders. I felt a little humiliated but took it sportingly. Later on we came across a few more groups of the seniors but we were able to outwit them some how or other.
  We went to the lecture room and mistaking it for a school we observed some rules of decorum. As soon as the teacher entered we stood up and greeted him. But we found a strange smile on the face of the teacher and it made us think that we have not acted properly. The teacher did not teach for some time and indulged in general gossip. It was quite amusing and there was no strain upon our mind. After some time we moved to another room and we waited there for near about 20 minutes but no teacher turned up. In fact it was a problem to know to which room were we to move. There was nobody to guide us and we were terrible afraid of asking the seniors. After the second bell somebody told us that the classes were over.
  As soon as i moved out of the room i started thinking that in the colleges perhaps there is no regular teaching work. We also heard some of the seniors saying that their courses have not been finished and they do not know which books were to be studied by them. This made me think that school life was better where we were forced to work. The college seemed to have lost charm which i have been associating with the college life. They very first day of the college was disappointing day because i did not believe in wasting time unnecessarily.
  I had carried a few books with me but could not make use of them. Most of the seniors had neither pen not paper with them heroes and heroines. They seemed to be more interested in fashions than in books. Some of them were smoking out their time in the canteen. All this seemed quite odd.
 We were supposed to attend only three periods in on  period the teacher gossiped whereas no teacher turned up during the other two periods. I felt a bit bored. I felt that life at the college is all play and no work but that is also not good for a  healthy outlook. Thus the first day at the college gave me a compete idea of the life over here. It is meaningless and  uninteresting. At this age if person does not work one is bound to suffer throughout. This was lurking in my mind when i took crowded bus home.....!!!!!

farewell party

FAREWELL PARTY:
The day when i was free from my school for appearing in the higher secondary examination will be remembered throughput my life. As our was the outgoing class, so it was bidden farewell by class 10th. The principal fixed the responsibility for making arrangements.The farewell party was given on Sunday.
When i arrived at the school at 3.p.m. I saw that will arrangements were made by the host party. The school hall was beautifully decorated with charts, buntings, flowers and placards. The main table on which the principal and the inspector of schools were to sit,was beautifully decorated with flowerpots.There were many chairs for the outgoing students staff and student of class 10th.
The party began at 4.p.m. for about one hour we ate to our heart's content gossiped and laughed too much. The party came too an end at 5.p.m. The farewell function started after party was over. Mr amir mehmood a student of class 10th made a moving and heart ending farewell speech in which he mentioned our long and deep association with school as well as their class. His speech which was full of praise and appreciation for our outgoing class was delivered in a befitting manner. His farewell speech which was punctuated with humorous remark and pleasantries wishing us success in our future was totally the most touching ONE.
After this speech i on behalf of my class thanked the host and got blessing from my teachers and worthy principal. In my speech. I lauded the good arrangements made by the host and accepted their good wishes and feelings for all of us. When i was delivering the speech. I was deriving a mixed pleasure. I was feeling sad because of the separation from my old and august institution in where lap i got education and training of my mind and body. To me my school was an embodiment of knowledge and learning whose scared atmosphere is a part of my memory. For me this was not merely a school which imparted knowledge,but it was a cradle of culture and civilization.
In the end the reverend principal whose association with the school is as old as the history of this school made and impassioned speech. In  his farewell message, he gave us some please of advice to be followed in our future course of life. He made a fervent appeal to build our mind and character on sound lines. He stressed upon us to inculcate a spirit of service and sacrifice as well as of patriotism and nationalism. After his encouraging speech the function came to an end.
   We parted after taking the blessing of our teachers and good wishes of our friends. While going, we cast our longing and lingering looks at this great and noble institution in whose lap we spent the most formative period of our life and living.....:)

FEMALE EDUCATION

FEMALE EDUCATION:

It is the height of selfishness for men, who full appreciate in their own case the great advantages of a good education to deny these advantages to women. There is no valid arguments by which the exclusion of the female sex from privilege of education can be defended. It is argued that women have their domestic duties to perform and that, id they were educated they would bury themselves in their books and have little time for attending to the management of their house hold of course it is possible for women as it is for men to neglect necessary work in order to spare more time for reading sensational novels. But women are no more liable to this temptation than men and most women would be able to do their house hold work all the better for being able to refresh their minds in the intervals of leisure with a little reading. Nay, education would even help them in the performance of the narrowest sphere of womanly duty. For education involves knowledge of the means by which health may be preserved and improved, and enables a mother to consult such modern books as will tell her how to rear up her children into healthy men and women and skillfully nurse them and her husband when diseases attacks her household. Without education she will be not unlikely to listen with fatal results to the advice of superstitious quacks, who pretended to work wonders by charms and magic.

But according to a higher conception of woman's sphere, woman ought to be something more than a household drudge. She ought to be able not merely to nurse her husband in sickness, but also to be his companion in health. For this part of her wifely duty education is necessary for there cannot well be congenial companionship between an educated man and an uneducated wife who can converse with her husband on no higher subjects than cookery and servants wages. Also one of a mother's highest duties is the education of her children at the time when their mind is most amenable to instruction. A child's whole future life to a large extent depends on the teaching it receives in early childhood and it is needles to say that this first foundation of education cannot be well laid by an ignorant mother. On all these grounds female education is vital necessary.

But it is sometimes urged that the intellect of women is so weak as to be incapable of receiving and benefiting by any but the lowest from of education. Such an assertion could hardly be made by any one who considers for a moment the instances afforded by history of women who have shown conspicuous ability in statesmanship, literature, science, and art. The list of women who have by their intellectual power won for themselves an eminent position in history is a long one, and would be still longer if in the past they had enjoyed the same educational advantages as were given to men.

The only real danger to be apprehended from female education arises from an imperfect views of the scope of education. If education is confined to mere book learning there is a danger that women may, from physical weakness, succumb to the intellectual strain put upon them in their studies at college and college. The remedy for this is to remember that physical training is an essential part for education and to allow women the opportunity of strengthening their physical powers by regular exercise, especially by exercise in the open air, so that they have the good health necessary for the profitable prosecution of their studies..... 

THE INVENTION I CONSIDER THE MOST USEFUL TO MANKIND

THE INVENTION I CONSIDER THE MOST USEFUL TO MANKIND;
The number of invention of high utility to mankind is so great that it is difficult to decide which is the most important. How can we choose between printing the steam engine, the aeroplane, antiseptic surgery, cholro form and the various inventions connected with electricity such as the telegraph the telephones, wireless telegraphy and electric light? if we judge and invention's utility by the extent of the changes it has brought about in men's thoughts and social life, perhaps the steam engine and the printing press stand first. The printing press has most profoundly influenced men: but the social revolution caused by the steam engine has been more dramatic and can be more easily described.
 The steam engine has made the world smaller.It has contracted space and shorted time. By rail and steam ship we can now reach different parts of the world by journeys of hours instead of days and of days instead of months.
With this means travel has become so easy, quick and comparatively cheap, that people of all nations who were formerly confined to their native countries are now diffused all over the globe. The world has got to known itself better national isolation has been broken down, and men of all nations are beginning to feel they all belong to one great family the human size. 
  The wonder full improvement and extension of the means of communication has led to an enormous increase of trade and commerce, which brings to product of all land to every body's door's.
Above all the steam engine brought about the industrial revolution which resulted in the form of civilization characteristics, of the 19th and 20th centuries. Applied to machinery it made possible the rapid production in enormous quantities of all kinds of useful articles at low prices which brought things, which were luxuries before, within the reach of even the poor. It produced the factory system which means the gathering together thousands of working men in on business and under one control in place of formal small business and this again produced the great modern towns, with their conveniences and their grave social problem....!!:)

THE INDOOR GAME I LIKE THE BEST

THE INDOOR GAME I LIKE THE BEST:

There are many indoor games. Some are ancient like chess and draught and some modern inventions like ludo, tiddlywinks and ping-pong. Some are games of pure chance like some card games and some are games of skill, like chess. All such games are meant as amusement to pass the time but some of them while giving amusement give something more.

I do not much like card games for i think that any game that depends mostly on chance very soon loses its interest. Of course there is a good deal of skill or at any rate memory ans shrewd guessing required in some card games like bridges. But after all luck has a great deal to do with winning for even the best player cannot do much with a bad hand of cards and even the worst must do something with a good hand. And whether we have a good hand or a bad hand is entirely a matter of chance. That is why i suppose people do not as rule care for card game unless they can play for money. Only gambling can keep up an interest in cards.

 My favorite indoor game is chess. Practically no chances come into chess it is nearly all pure skill. And this is what gives chess its chief interest. To be a good chess player one must have great patience must be able to look ahead and calculate what the result of every movement will be and one must have great power of concentration. A game of chess is a battle a wresting match between two minds. Although the two player sit perfectly still, and scarcely  speak a word they are engaged in an exciting mental combat. And the cleverest man wins. Chess does not need gambling to make it interesting.

So chess is not a mere amusement though it is very amusing. It is a fine from of mind exercise. It teaches one to think to calculate to look ahead to read other people's thoughts and intentions. Before he dare move a piece the player had to ask himself if i move my knight there, what will be the result? Will my opponent move up his bishop or withdraw his queen or play a pawn? If he does the first will that put my king in danger? If he does the second can i check king? If he does the third will he spoil my attack? and whatever he does what shall i do next? and so on and so on.

So for real excitement and interest and for real mental recreation give me a game of chess. When ever a get a chance. I love to play it...

OUR COLLEGE

OUR COLLEGE:
The name of our college is very grand. It is made of stone and bricks. It has 35 rooms. The rooms are airy. Every room ventilators. Then there is a good library. The library has a good stock of books. Some of the books are very interesting. There are books which increase one's wisdom,intelligence and commonsense. The college has a good laboratory. The college laboratory is  equipped with the necessary apparatus and other scientific instruments.
 The college has six classes. Every class is divided into four sections. There are 1000 boys studying in the college. It has a staff of 45 members. The staff is capable and efficient. The principal of the college is reputed man. He is very upon the students. The college office is managed by one clerk and one cashier. All are hardworking.
  The college have two play ground one tennis court yard a swimming pool and a nice cafeteria. If has also a beautiful garden where students relax and pass their recess period.
  Our college is progressing in all fields. In students it has made a mark. Its students secure position in the final examination. Even in games sports and tournaments it has made much progress. Our colleges has won many trophies shields and other medals in such activities.
 In debates also the students of our college secure good positions. It is considered to be one of the best colleges in Lahore. Its reputation is very good. All of us are really proud of this good and great institution.....

MY IDEA OF HAPPY LIFE

MY IDEA OF HAPPY LIFE:
Idea of happiness totally depends upon what a person has, if a person does not have wealth he would think that happiness lies in possessing wealth. Another would find happiness in meditation and still others in gossiping. It comes as naturally and as refreshingly as the morning air.
 I think one can get happiness by enjoying in the work in hand. If a person keeps himself mentally busy and remains satisfied be can remain happy. Our high hopes and soaring ambition often make us unhappy. If a person thinks that every moment is to be enjoyed like every drop of wine left in a cup, he will definitely be happy.
  This type of satisfaction excludes envy and jealousy. One should never think of others happiness, rather one should remain satisfied with what one should have. The habit of comparing and contrasting and the desire to become what other are, often leaves a sorrowful heart.
 One can enjoy while watching the birds or kicking his heels upon the ground. One can be happy in catching the butterflies or  by looking vacantly at the beauties of nature. In fact one should find every moment quite absorbing and should always think that every  moment as is possible. Happiness is a state of mind and not a possession. It is a product of imagination and not of labor. It is to be enjoyed through spirit and not through sense. It can be felt and not seen.
 If a person can enjoyed peace of mind, his is the happiest life. If we are hankering after the worldly things and desires were remain unhappy. We should do our duty without thinking of the result. Duty which God wishes us to perform should be our aim. Such people will not be over joyed by success or frustrated by defeat.
  Similarly life should not be the ultimate aim of living. This is a preparation for the next life. Such ab attitude make us indifferent to the death of our near and dear one's. Though this attitude needs a great control over one's emotion yet this can afford happiness.
 Happiness cannot be monopolised by saints. It cannot be the special right of the wealthy people. It is not meant only for a child. Happiness can be enjoyed by a common man. It is around us we are to discover it. A man should tune himself up for it and he will get it.......

HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION

HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION:

A fortnight before the summer break, we stopped taking interest in studies. Everyone of us made an ambition plan to visit some place or the other. But man proposes and good disposes. On the very first day, my mother slipped in the kitchen and broke her ankle. Her whole leg was plastered and she was advised bed rest for three weeks. I had to prepare tea and cook food for the whole family. My friends came to enquire  about her health and i had to serve them as well. I kept company with my mother told her stories and tried to make to happy in every manner. The temperature was rising and the mercury had touched 17 F but there was no way out.
  My mother could not stand the moist air of cooler so i had to prespire with her. It was not easy to prepare her bed, serve her food and change her clothes. As no male member could help. I had to bear the burden alone. Whenever she was to be carried to the bathroom. I had to be very care full about the plaster on her leg.
 Three weeks were over. We had to carry her to the hospital to get the plaster cut. There was long line of patients and we had to wait in the varandah sitting on the wooden bench. It was a real hell on the earth. The patients were crying with pain. Some were taken on stretchers, other could walk with great difficulty. The doctor told us that plaster was to be respeated. How i wish, it would have been my leg so that i could get bed rest the whole day.
 My friends wrote from Swat that they were having nice time. My friends described the pleasant weather of Swat and Kalam. I wish, i could fly like a bird and join them. One of my aunts came all the way from Islamabad to enqurie about the health of my mother. Her younger son was also with her. So i had to look after not only my mother and members of our own family but aunt and her naughty son as well. What if there were no vacation...

MY AMBITION IN LIFE

MY AMBITION IN LIFE:
People have their own dreams in life. Many aspire to be rich or to become business tycoons magnates, big guns. Some persons dreams of becoming leader politicians and social reformers. These are other who have a craze for becoming poets writers and novelists while most of us generally have a  desire of becoming engineers, doctors, and scientists of great repute. There are a very few persons who are happy go lucky by nature and have no clear cut aim in their lives.
 As for myself i do not have very ambitious aim in my life. I do not wish to become a mill power owner or a multi millionaire. The sole object of my life is to lead a life of simplicity and goodness devoted to the service of humanity. The life of a professional leaders or a politician does not interest me as a most of such persons have grown parasites on the society.
 I am born of middle class parents. From the very beginning. I have been passing through the struggles of life. I have seen cut throat competition in most of the professions. Its consequences have been far reaching people are demo ralised. Example are not wanting when we can find the engineers accepting big bribes lawyers rescuing guilty persons or murders and doctors demanding money from the patients at crucial stages of surgical operation.
 Then what do i want to be? Indeed from the core of my heart, i wish to become a teacher. The motto of this life simple living and high thinking inspires me to take up this profession. The noble ideals of the teachers in ancient  times are before me. I am fully aware of the difficult and hard life of a teacher. I know that a teacher is lotted to be poor. He leads a life of drudgery buy in correcting exercise books or answer books of the students. There are no stirring events in his life.
Inspite of these hardships i do not hestiate to become a teacher. I have my own reasons and consideration for this. From my early childhood. I have developed a love for the young children. To me they are delicate and beautiful like the petals of a flower. I feel that as a teacher, i can help the students in widening their outlook by giving them knowledge. I will have the satisfaction of doing invaluable service to the country by producing better citizens. Moreover the company of the young children can even help me in remaining young and fresh in thoughts and outlook. Besides rendering all these important services. I will also have the means of subsistence. I have a great faith in the life of a noble and ideal teacher, because teachers are the custodians of the highest value......

memories of childhood

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD:
The memories of childhood have their own significance in one's life. As one grown up one feel more and more attached with his childhood, the best period of man's life. A child has no worries, anxieties or work. He is free from the dirty and filthy noise of worldly life. His motto of life remains eat, drink and be merry the charm of childhood cannot be forgotten. These memories leave an everlasting impression on one's life.
 Same is the case with me. When i recollect the days of my childhood. I feel very much delighted:it was a pleasant period which i spent in high spirits.
 In my childhood i was carefree having no worries at all, I used to wander like a deer in the open fields enjoying the natural beauty in the pastures.
There are certain incidents which are still fresh in my memory. For instance at the age of five. I got a serve attack of typhoid. In those days medical science was not so much advanced. In the absence of proper diagnosis. I was reduced to a skeleton. After taking medicine for a sufficiently long period, I was cured. The doctor advised me to go to some hill station. So father took me to Muree.
 Once a juggler with two monkeys fell in live with the she monkey. She monkey refused to marry the monkey. The he monkey went to his father in laws house after wearing colorful dress. These were the pranks which attracted me. I fully appreciated the tricks shown by the juggler.
 Another incident which i still remember is swimming experience.It was Sunday when i along with  my friends went for picnic to river Ravi. Some of us were expert swimmers but unluckily i did not know how to a swim. My friends dived into the river and compelled me also to to do the same. Soon i was caught by the current of water and was carried away swiftly. There was every possibility of my losing life but the due to the valor of one my friends. I was rescued from the current of water and was brought on the bank. I was really very much grateful to him because he have me a new life.

 The memory of the days spent in my childhood is still haunting my mind. Although i do wish that those days full of pleasure may come back yet i know that it is a thing of the past. Time is always on its wings. I cannot enjoy those's days again.
 It is this period which has often been praised by poets and writers. Recollecting past is to plunge ourselves in a state of melancholy. Wordsworth the immortal poet of England and a great worship of nature describes in his poems his childhood period which to him was full of pleasantries and pleasure of joy an entertainment.
  As i am growing in age. I feel greater attachment and attraction for those days which i had spent in my childhood. I am certain that my desire of enjoying childhood again will never be fulfilled because gone are the good old days when i was a child.....