Self help is the best help for nations

SELF HELP

STANDING AT THE FOOT, BOYS,

                              GAZING AT THE SKY

HOW CAN YOU GET UP, BOYS,

                              IF YOU NEVER TRY

 If we merely stand at the foot of a hill and keep looking up at the sky, it is impossible that we should be able to climb up to the top of it. We cannot climb a hill unless we try. Unless we try to help ourselves no one can help us. Even God will not help us, unless we first try to help ourselves. “Heaven helps those who help themselves,” says an old proverb.

Self-help does not, of course, mean that we should receive no help at all from anybody else. It means that we must try to do our job for ourselves. We should not say, “Whatever is in my Fate will happen”. That is a wrong attitude. If a man shuts himself in his own house and says that he should get his meals, he will certainly get nothing. God will not send down his meals through the roof. He will have to go out and exert himself. He will then get his food. Even animals cannot get food without hard work. Every bird and animal has to go in search of its food, work hard for it, searching, hunting for it, and then it is able to get its food. We cannot get anything we have no right to ask for anything, unless we work for it. That is self-help.

For a student Self-help is very important. He has to prepare for his examination, unless he has worked hard for it, he cannot hope to pass his examinations. He must, of course, get help from his teachers and sometimes he may get some help from his fellow students. However, his success at the examination will depend upon the amount of work he has done.

This is true not only of an individual but also a nation. No nation can progress as long as it keeps on depending upon others to help her. Of course, in the modern age, every country has to depend upon some other country for something or the other, but in the main, a country must try to be self-sufficient. Self-help is the best help for nations and for individuals both.

Importance of Adult Education

IMPORTANCE
OF
 ADULT EDUCATION

Illiteracy—being unable to read or write—is a curse. To remain ignorant is a great misfortune. For everyone, man or woman, acquiring knowledge is a DUTY. However, there are many people in our country who are not only uneducated but also illiterate. It is not enough that children should be educated but those grown-ups who have unfortunately remained illiterate should be educated too. Adult education centres should, therefore, be established every where.

Adult education is very essential for the progress of any country. In countries like ours (Pakistan) where only about 5% of the people are educated, adult education is all the more essential. If the parents are educated, they will try to give education to their children too, because they will realise the value of education. Parents who are themselves uneducated will not care much for their children’s education. If adults are educated they will be better qualified to face their problems of life. An educated lady, for instance will prove to be a better wife and mother than she was before. A grown up man after being educated will perhaps get a better job and earn more; he will learn to take keener interest in the welfare of his family; he will know how to employ his leisure in a useful way. All these and many more are the benefits of Adult Education.

Adult education must be free in order to attract people towards it. Men who work for the whole day to earn their livelihood or woman who slave for the whole day at home, cannot be expected to pay and be educated. It should, therefore, be free. Government and social bodies and institutions can establish Adult Education centres.  It would be the duty of educated people to go to these centres and teach free and help towards the noble task of education among the uneducated people of their country.

Autobiography of Wrist Watch

           AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WRIST WATCH

I am a tiny little thing but I am very useful. It is my duty to tell the correct time every minute. I teach people to be punctual and to keep their promises. I am going to relate to you today some of the adventures I have had in my life.

I was born in Switzerland which is well-known all over the world for the production of my kind. I was packed very carefully in a beautiful box and shipped off to different countries. I was to be a lady’s watch-so I was particularly tiny and attractive in appearance. I was placed in the glass show-case of a dealer where I continued to attract great deal of attention of all passers-by. I did not stay here long because in a few days a gentleman came and bought me up. I went with my new master to his house. He had purchased me to be made a present to his daughter on here birth-day. The young lady was very happy to get me. She proved to be a very good mistress to me. She kept me very carefully and I accompanied here daily to her school. I served her every faithfully. During her examinations I kept on telling her from minute to minute how much time she had left. She too treated me most kindly.

My good fortune was not destined to last long. On one unfortunate morning I slipped down from her wrist in a bus while she was going to school. I fell into the hands of a loafer who was overjoyed to find me, but I felt horrible when I fell in his hands. He took me and sold me to a man who gave me over to his wife. This lady was terribly careless and gave me such ill-treatment that my health soon began to fail and I could not do my duty satisfactorily her husband took me to a doctor who gave me along treatment. At the end of it I found my system a little more regular. My master got fed up with my repeated attacks of illness and decided to sell me off.

So I was taken to a petty shop and was sold off. Here I am lying in a little show-case and thinking over my by-gone days.