SHORT ESSAY ON TRAVELLING IS LEARNING

"Traveling is learning", says Disraeli

 The world is full of people. Every country of the world has its own culture, its own custom, its own language and a lifestyle. Even people living in different regions of country show remarkable difference in their dress, food, dialects and the like things that discriminate from the lot. This makes traveling not only a source of joy but also source of learning.

The Holy Koran also urges us to tray on the earth and to learn (about different civilization that lived in different era) and what end did they meet. Traveling has always been a good excursion of man. It is a very good adventure even today. Even when there were fewer means of transportation, man traveled far and wide. America is a result; the sole super power of the world is a result of traveling. Columbus had set out on trade travel where he happened to discover America. Amerigo Vespussi too was a great traveler who claimed to have discovered America. America has been named after Amerigo. Marco Polo traveled to Mediterranean in the day when traveling involved risk of life. He saw Kubla Khan and his fascinating court. Similarly, Vasco-de-Gama traveled a far as to reach India. People have been traveling. Robert Christopher, an American traveled all through the Sahara Desert without any transport of his own. He experienced the thirst and heat of a desert. A sandstorm told him how it can bury huge caravans.

Why does man travel? Mainly man travels for trade. He travels for adventure as well. Traveling is a great source of learning. The moment we set foot out of the city, we face challenges. We have to make decisions using our analytical ability. Now, traveling tests our foresight. We come across different strata of life. Robbers, brigands, cheats, test the mettle of a traveler. In a strange land, all alone, a traveler must have courageous heart, sharp eye and high alert mind. Traveling teaches us a great lesson of tolerance and inculcates (creates) a spirit of accommodating others... It also prepares us for facing different climates and physical condition. Traveling is a source of constant amazement and enjoyment. Man enters a valley wonders and novelty. At every step, new mysteries, new puzzles, new queries, undreamed of lands and unheard of birds and animals confront man. Thus traveling is a great adventure. Wanderlust has maddened many to explore new areas of the world. This is supported by the perennial fascination of travelogues all over the world.

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SHORT ESSAY ON SPORTS

"All work and no play

Makes jack a lazy boy"

  

Work, how ever interesting it may be, is always burdensome. Games provide us with a chance to get a break -through in the dull,., dry and drab routine of life. They give us entertainment as well as exertion. Without sports, life would lose much of its charm.

Longfellow rightly says: “As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so does change of studies to a dull brain" As a student, I need sports as much as I need food. The studious task of reading books, writing answers and memorizing formula renders me mechanical. Sports give me a blessed break in my studies. "Health is wealth" is an old saying. And sports keep us healthy. A bookworm, like a silk worm, licks away books and finally the books lick him away. Youth is a time of energy. S.T, Coleridge, the famous Romantic poet, describes his youthful potential by saying that his body was:

Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore

 On winding lakes and rivers wide

 That asks no aid of sail or oar

  That fears no spite of wind or tide

Young boys want to exert power. If they are deprived of a chance to show animal spirits, they give vent to their potential in wrong ways. So games must be played in colleges and schools. Girls should not be neglected here. They may be allowed to play indoor games like badminton, skipping, swimming etc. Different games impart different skills to the players. “Football is by power, hockey by trick, cricket by chance" Thus every game gives different training to the players. In general, all games teach sportsman spirit. The players learn how to accept challenges, follow rules, obey the captain, and accept the umpire's or referee's decisions. The players learn how to accept defeat and digest victory which so much matters in life.

On a larger scale, sports ensure interaction between different nations, their cultures, languages, dishes, heroes and histories. Thus players introduce a country in the world. They are the ambassadors of a country. Sports bring a lot of foreign exchange also. There is a wise saying “All people are good except those who are idle". Because “An idle mind is the devil's workshop" a game "teaches through delight" and trains the youth through healthy competitions.

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SHORT ESSAY ON MY AMBITION

Life is the name of co-operation between different professions. They are all important and vital in the entire scheme of life. Life can not run smooth without any of them. A doctor treats us against diseases. Health is wealth. There is no substitute of health. Similarly, engineers are very important in the development of a country or a nation. Farming, weaving, tailoring, sports, are all indispensable for the smooth running of life.

 But where do all doctors, engineers etc come from? Certainly they come from different educational institutions. They are the out put of a teacher. Thus teaching is the mother of all professions.

 My aim of life is to become a teacher of literature. Teaching is a noble profession. This is the sacred profession of prophets. If there were no other reason, I would prefer teaching for this reason. All prophets are the chosen people of Allah. The holy prophet says, “I have been sent as a teacher.

Had there been any other sublime task of We Allah would have assigned it to His prophets. No, there is nothing else that can hold a candle to being a teacher.

I would love to teach literature rather than sciences. It is so because literature takes up the case of man— the Crown of Creation. It helps us understand the various aspects of man. Science deals with man as a multicellular organism. Sir Richard Livingstone says “Specialization in science is a particular danger." More over, it's only literature that talks of morality which is fast vanishing. Values ore on the decline, Man is becoming a literate animal. The warmth of heart is dwindling. Plato says, “All of our departments of life would ultimately fail for want of only one branch of knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil”.

The reason for present depravity is that teaching and preaching of values is almost nowhere. Horace Mann, a great philosopher says "A teacher who is attempting to teach .without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron"

So I shall inspire my students into learning. I know that knowledge is the fountain head of all human progress. Knowledge is the land whence all the springs of progress sprout. Napoleon says," In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the mind" So I will shape the thinking of my students on modern yet moral lines. A teacher shapes the character of his students. Clay itself is nothing but a mud of soil. It’s only the hand of a potter that gives it shape. I shall try my best to shape the character of my taught in the best manner. They will become vital members of society. I value teaching as an opportunity to sow to revolutionize not only a person but a whole family, a Whole society. It gives an opportunity for national, religious and human devices.

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