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)
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‘…you are no longer strangers
and sojourners, but... fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God…’
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‘…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 வெல்லும்/ ஒரு கனவுகண்டால் அது தினம்
முயன்றால் ஒரு நாளில் நிஜமாகும்/ உன்னை வெல்ல யாருமில்லை...ஒரு முடிவிருந்தால்
அதில் தெளிவிருந்தால் அந்த வானம் வசமாகும்... (ஒவ்வொரு பூக்களுமே...)
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of
them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky
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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
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest
risk of all. – Jawaharlal Nehru
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‘The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors
into window.’ – Sydney J
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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.
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Jesus in fact washed the feet of
his disciples – ‘came to serve; not to be served…’
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‘Don’t lord it over like the
heathens… those who want to be the first be the last…’
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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…
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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.
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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
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