From Rameswaram to the Rashtrapati Bhawan, it’s been a long journey. Taking to Nona
Walia on the eve of Teacher’s Day, President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam talks about life’s
toughest lessons learnt and his mission being a teacher to the Indian youth. ”A proper
education would help nurture a sense of dignity and self- respect among our youth,” says
President Kalam. There’s still a child in him though, and he’s still curious about learning new
things. Life’s a mission for President Kalam. Nonetheless, he remembers his first lesson in
life and how it changed his destiny. “I was studying in Standard V and must have been all of
10. My teacher, Sri Sivasubramania Iyer was telling how birds fly. He drew a diagram of a
bird on the blackboard, depicting the wings, tails and the body with the head and then
explained how birds soar to the sky. At the end of the class, I said I didn’t understand. Then
he asked the other students if they had understood , but nobody had understood how birds
fly,” he recalls. “ That evening, the entire class was taken to Rameshwaram shore,” the
President continues, “ My teacher showed us sea birds. We saw marvellous formation of
them flying and how their wings flapped. Then my teacher asked us, ‘ Where is the bird’s
engine and how is it powered?’ I knew then that birds are powered by their own life and life
and motivation. I understood all about bird’s dynamics.”
What did the teacher draw on the blackboard?
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A bird,dipicting the wings,tails and the body with the head
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