Joy Of Learning Diaries

Sometimes, like the Robin egg blue and sometimes like the ballet shoes.  Clouds serenely glide, The sky is a canvas wide. Stars wink like diamonds in the night, Painting stories with their light. The moon, a guardian, calm and bright, Guides us through the velvet night. Sunrise paints a fiery hue, A promise of a day anew. Sunset's kiss, a gentle sigh, As day and night bid sweet goodbye. Image Courtesy- Adorama Sakshi Singh  Gyanshree School Noida

"The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times." — Paulo Coelho. What would you do if your perfectly planned life fell apart? We all try to plan our lives correctly. This is necessary to lead a good life. But our perfectly designed life may fall apart. Well, what should we do in that case? My answer to this question is to plan it again, no matter how often we fail. Failures are just temporary. We encounter many shortcomings in our lives. These failures force us to give up. They hamper the plans of our lives. They act as a barrier in our life. Due to this, people give up and fail to lead a good life. However, intelligent people will take these failures as an incomplete part of their lives and try to fill them up. They do not treat these failures as permanent but as temporary. They take these failures as opportunities. They do not treat failures as barriers to success but as a part of it. The main aim of these people is to never leave their planned path an

Life is a journey where we encounter many things that give us beautiful moments and memories. Sometimes, life provides us with a bundle of happiness, but sometimes, it gives us a lot of sadness and sorrow. Happiness and sadness, failing and winning and laughing and crying are part of our lives, but still, we get depressed thinking about the things that make us sad.  My friend said that life is short; instead of doing what you like, why are you doing what you don't like. I said that life is strange sometimes to fit in the community; we need to sacrifice our happiness. Sometimes thinking about the future makes me feel worried, but sometimes it makes me feel happy that life may make you a successful person in future.  We never know how unpredictable our life is when our last goodbye is. At last, we should live our every second with happiness because the moment we are sad, we love every second of joy. Therefore, come out from the world of sadness and live happily. Image courtesy- Unspl

Changing the world doesn't mean that a person has to change the whole world at once; it can be done by making minor changes in their society that would help spread the changes. I would like to contribute to changing the world by teaching basic things about life to the poor people in our society. Teaching them the meaning of one's value in life, how important life could be, and how it would affect the future. Monika Pundir Pestalozzi Children's Village India

  जीवन का तथ्य  निडर बन जीना है  हमें इस दुनिया में , चाहे कितनी भी मुश्किलें आ जाए सामने  चाहे दुनिया अँधेरे से भर जाए  या भर जाए  मनुष्यों के अनर्थ कार्यों से परंतु  एक दीया भी न हमने ऐसा देखा जिसने, अपनी रोशनी से अंधकार को ना हराया  निडर होकर जीना है हमें इस दुनिया में।   निडर बन के जीना है हमें इस दुनिया में  चाहे श्री राम की तरह जाना पड़े वनवास में  या पड़ जाए धरती पर घोर संकट, या आ जाए  जीवन-मृत्यु की स्थिति हमारे सामने, परंतु एक जीवन ही क्या जिसमें ना देखना पड़े , उत्तार-चढाव हमें या, उठाना ना पड़े हमें एक पर्वत  श्री हनुमान की तरह इस युग में   निडर बन के जीना है हमें इस दुनिया में ।                                                                                - साई किरण साहू - Saikiran studies at Gyanshree School Noida, one of our top-performing schools. #GoodSchoolsAlliance

What will be my contribution to making the world a better place? One person can not change the whole world, but we must understand that to bring peace, we all must contribute our efforts together.  Every person can not reach out to the whole world; some people who are illiterate, uneducated and poor don't have access to the other side of the world. But, yes! There is a world for simple people, even if they don't know how the world looks outside their village and town. One day, my grandmother asked me where this place called Dehradun actually lies because she had never stepped out of the village.  Like my grandmother, people in the town know nothing about the states, countries, continents, world and planets.  This is how life looks without education; without education, we cannot see the world beyond our surroundings.  Still, even though the world of the illiterate people is limited, there is a world for them: their surroundings, where they live with their family, community and t

We can contribute to changing the world in a diverse manner. So I prefer to contribute to this objective by opening schools in rural areas.  Keeping in mind, how much social importance education has in this modern, complex industrialised society. It helps in imparting values, and reforms attitudes in children, and most importantly it is of vital importance.  But before contributing toward changing the world, one should know that revolutionizing the world is not so easy. One cannot change the world by himself/herself. The world is mammoth, it is changeless until everyone joins their hands together. Pasang Sherpa Pestalozzi Children's Village Society

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” – Booker T. Washington. Picture Courtesy: https://www.freepik.com Today's world needs a change. There are many disparities among people. One hates others on grounds of caste, religion, colour, gender, etc. To end all these disparities, people's support and contributions are required. If these disparities end, the world will become peaceful. There will be no chaos. Even one person can make a great impact. Many people contribute to changing the world. I also want to be one of these people. I want to see the world changing. For this, I want to make all the possible contributions. I would like to make the following contributions to change the world:-  It is correctly said by someone that education is the most powerful weapon to change the world. So, take and give education.  We should do small acts of kindness. Even a tiny kind word can warm three winter months. Similarly, even small acts of kindness can have an everla

Well, hello, dear reader! Before you start reading, there's one request I'd like to make to you. This is a big article, but trust me if you read it. It will be worth the time. At some point in our lives, I'm sure we've all procrastinated. Sometimes, when your lazy side just takes over you and instead of knowing that right now is the perfect time to do some task, that lazy version of yourself just seems to take the steering wheel of your mind. We start doing things that we would define as "stupid" when we think about it; I mean, we all know that it's not wrong if I say that the first thing you do is go and check the fridge to see if something has magically appeared in there which wasn't there 10 minutes ago when you checked it for the same reason.  You must be wondering what you are even reading, which is completely unrelated to the title you read, before opening this article in the first place. So, I read a book called Can't Hurt Me by David Goggin

Image from Amazon.com, for representation only. I am reading Diary Of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, and this series is called “The Getaway”.  In this book, Greg Heffly and his family are escaping to a tropical island called  “ Isla De Corales ” .  This adventure  has a lot of ups and downs . For instance, they got to go to the swimming pool, which was not very crowded, but there was an Iguana. My favourite  paragraph from the book: M om said we should all head down to the beach, but I wanted  to hang back and shower. I wanted to take my TIME in there, and I knew if she were in the suite, she’d hassle me about using too much hot water. My opinion of the book - this book is very funny and  interesting. I  can’t wait to get the next series called The Meltdown to discover what will happen. Annaya is in Grade 4 at Tashi Namgyal Academy in Sikkim, and the post is her first book 📖 review.

Helping others find their voice which means helping someone to realize that they can also stand upfront in any situation.  We can inform them about the human sight they possess if there are matters that need to be dealt with by rules and laws.  We can help other people but before doing so we should prove ourselves worthy to do so then only we shall be able to guide them to reach their actual inner voice. Pasang Sherpa Pestalozzi Children's Village Society

While I procrastinate, I remember some things that make me want to curl up and stop existing and others that make me grateful for them happening. What you're about to read would be hard to actually sympathise with and enjoy if I do not give you the setup, so I hope you enjoy it. I was a young boy almost in 5th trade, and being raised in Ladakh, I was like many drawn to the waters not by the thirst to drink but with the desire to immerse myself in the bone-chilling waters; though many could not swim, it did not stop us from enjoying it. For me personally, I remember embracing and enjoying every aspect of it, the bone-chilling river young from the glaciers making our nose redder than Rudolf's, the clear sky with its thin atmosphere letting the scorching sun bath us with its warmth as we lay on the sandy banks. The whole experience was perfected by the breathtaking views of the mighty mountains touching the clouds with their tips where it snowed permanently. Now that you know how

Intentions come a long way - Sometimes say even more than words. Vibes exist. Matches exist. It's all in the intent of a person -"like" likes "like," unlikely in some cases. For instance, need of help  -WHEN YOU HAVE EVERYTHING-everybody seems to be close to us, "wants to be" close to us-but when you have little - All that remains is all WHAT and WHO is yours-The Real Ones. Truth of life - Let's face it. Well, you must be wondering where "intent" drops in here - Others' intentions throw vibes of what they mean or, in this case, "want." Some figure that out, while few are too caught up in the moment to see whose "faking." Those true at heart stay beside you no matter what, when or where life takes you. While as your "car of life" comes down through the mesmerising meadows, full of "your close ones," as soon as you enter the "dark tunnel," what your life comes out with is its car full of

A classroom is a room or a sphere where students learn. The one who teaches or gives lessons is called the teacher, and the one who takes the learning is called the student. Different students can have different views on the classroom, and I, too, have my opinions on a classroom. The school has become an essential place for learning. Without schooling, you won't be able to push yourself further in the field of education. "Education never ends, and the road never ends. It's only the fuel of the car that ends". No one can ever learn everything, even if we start learning after birth until we die. The classroom makes learning more fun, exciting and memorable in the education journey. The word classroom is an extensive term that means that a classroom is much more than a room in the school building. All the sphere and place becomes a classroom when you get lessons out of it. Teamwork is something that we learn when working as a team. Therefore, the football ground, basketb

REFLECTION: " Finding your voice " (inner voice) Let's talk about the voice, not the one with which we speak but the inner voice. The voice that whispers in our mind with powerful and meaningful words. It tells us what's right and what's not. It tells us when to leave and where to go when needed. It tells us when to say yes and when to say no. Sometimes, that voice is crystal clear. It says go or stay, right or wrong, but sometimes it whispers. Always be calm and concentrative to have great clarity of that voice. "Never let your inner voice drown in this noisy world because, in the end, that voice knows what's right for you. Always trust your inner voice."    Tenzin Nyesel, Pestalozzi Children's Village India

Picture Courtesy: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_gratitude_changes_you_and_your_brain    भूल मत, प्यारे -  A poem about Gratitude & it’s importance. यूँ चलता है आज सिर उठाकर, पीछे भी देखा कर कितनों ने हाथ बटाया है  देखता है आज इस ज़मीं के ऊपर  भूल मत किसी ने तुझे खड़ा होना भी सिखाया है।  चलता बना घर से, अब समय था विद्यालय जाने का, वही बस्ता लिए जिसमें डब्बा माँ ने भिजवाया था, तीन-चार घंटे के लिए ही, झुण्ड से बिछड़े हए परिंदे जैसे रहना- वह भी एक ज़माना था।  धीरे-धीरे बनाये दोस्त जिनका साथ मिलना ही  समय का खज़ाना था।  भूल मत, ए परिंदे, वह भी एक ज़माना था  जब घर से बाहर रहना भी  लगता घर के प्यार में समाना था, भूल मत उन्हें जिन्होंने तुझे घर से दूर तेरा एक और घर बनाया था।  अक्षरों का ज्ञान नहीं, कलम के इस्तेमाल से अनजान, भूल मत ज्ञानी, किसी ने तुझे कलम पकड़ना क्या, कलाम के बारे में भी पढ़ाया था, तभी जीवन में आया ज्ञान का अभिमान था।  कभी दोस्तों से लड़कर, घर आकर  प्यार तो तूने उन्हीं बाहों में पाया था, जिनमें तूने अपना जीवन सजाया था, माँ की ममतामयी नज़रों और पिता के र

Picture Courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=458675426302602&set=a.458675399635938&locale=sk_SK So, creeping up and about was the full moon in the night skies above the small town of Nashville. The wind blew hard and soft simultaneously, for there was no hard and fast rule. The crackling dried-up leaves swirled around in the dusty wind when they dropped on the curled-up hairs of the little girl. Out in the lonesome night was she, dressed in an elegant frilled frock with chubby cheeks and a pink tinge on the skin as if she were a Barbie! Barring her from the mist falling was her small umbrella. Her name was Eleanor.  Now, Nashville had supposedly never been famous for a "Night Life," but seeing the little girl roam about the town in the starry night, residents drew down their curtains so that their children could not see her stroll around, as every toddler craves to; otherwise, they'd blabber, "Oh, Mama! Oh, Daddy! Can't we walk through the night

Picture Courtesy:  https://images.app.goo.gl/MuaNBWFQoBKXUt5b7 Thinking about how the human race started has always intrigued me but do you know something that intrigued me even more?  It's thinking about the future. Will there be flying cars? Will there ever be robot teachers? Will we ever live in an AI-dominated world? Well of course these are all questions that I often think about but how awesome would it be if all of this turned into reality?  However, this would only be possible if today’s youth or may I say ‘Gen-Z’ is ready to face the future. When I say face, I mean they are in a healthy condition, mentally as well as physically. We were all teenagers once.  Teenage is the period where a child builds his/her character and it is also the period when everything hits us all at once. We experience a lot of changes. During this time it can be hard to keep up with stuff now be it academically or in any other field. That is when we hear phrases like, ‘You only live once’, ‘You have

Picture Courtesy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_head_on_shoulders_photo_portrait.jpg Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States of America from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. His family moved to Indiana when he was seven and he grew up on the edge of the frontier. He had very little formal education but read voraciously when not working on his father’s farm.  Lincoln’s legacy is based on his momentous achievements: he successfully waged a political struggle and civil war that preserved the Union, ended slavery, and created the possibility of civil and social freedom for African Americans.  Abraham Lincoln was also a good thinker and orator. Lincoln's emergence as a great orator dates from 1854 when he made a memorable speech in Peoria, on October 6, of that year. This was his first major attack on the position of Sen

Listen to the podcast on your favourite app. My Good School Show Season 9, Episode 18, where passion meets education. This beautiful conversation where Anvesha delves into the value of caring and Rishona and Divisha share their take on Caring. Rishona: Caring definitely does help others. When someone cares for you, you feel like someone out in the world believes that you matter. It is a feeling of joy and happiness for that person. Caring is shown out of friendship, compassion and selflessness. A caring classroom is where students feel positively connected to others. That simple act can give them a sense of optimism and help solve their little problems. And what is in it for us? How does it help and benefit us? Well, seeing one smile puts a thousand smiles on my face. The fact that I have helped someone out or just given them the joy they needed and filled in the gap in their life makes me happy. As said, never believe that a few caring people can't change the world; indeed, that&#

Picture Courtesy: https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/true-self-finding-your-spiritual/ Being true to yourself means thinking and acting in ways that align with your values and feelings rather than the values of others.  If you are living true to yourself, you feel confident in your identity and you are pursuing goals that you know will lead to your happiness.  It is really important to be true to yourself it will be your guide to living a life for yourself. A life that is fulfilling and filled with all of the things that make you joyful and allow you to live a life of purpose, whatever that looks like for you.  Hence, the only way to live your life happily is to be who you are, not caring what other people might think or say about it.  People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well forget society and be like others. But keep one thing in mind you have to be true to yourself at every moment of your life.  Tulsi Karki Pestalozzi Children's Village, India.