Dr. Joel Ibrahim Kreps, new book ‘Snakes and Ladders,Aphorisms for Modern Living’

December 11 Achievement

Anything of a serious nature that we would like to accomplish in life will
involve overcoming four obstacles

1) fear-there will be multiple sorts of fears-fear of failure,fear of negative
consequences,fear of harm to self or others,fear of poverty and fear of pain
amongst others

2)fatigue-a considerable effort will be necessary which will involve fatigue.
Imagine the Olympic athlete who trains in the early morning and late
afternoon,imagine the soft-ware programmer who has to go through the
night to meet a deadline,imagine the businessman who needs to work seven
days a week in the early days of operations

3)opposition-Any valuable project will meet with opposition. The family of the
artist will warn him that he won’t be able to earn his living,the spouse and
children of the new businessperson will tell him to get a regular job as they
need a steady income,and the friends of the aspiring medical student will tell
him/her that it’s too hard to get in

4)doubt-there are usually many reasons to doubt the success of the project
and to doubt one’s own capacity to realize it.

December 18 Religion and Spirituality

Religion is about developing our love for God.
Spirituality is about realizing God’s love for his creation.

Jane M. Healy – Interview AUTHOR OF FAILURE TO CONNECT

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Preface by Syed Ali Ashraf to; Aims and Objectives of Islamic Education

A good man is not necessarily a complete man. No one can be regarded as a complete man because there is no end to the growth of human personality. A wide knowledge of many subjects helps in the growth of personality provided a man knows how to adjust to knowledge to behaviour, and how knowledge and action are integrated into a broad, total framework of life. The outlook of the educated man is not static but is modified and mellowed as he applied principles to practice and his outlook is enriched by experience.

In order to achieve such integration a man needs some basic values and the society in which he lives needs some basic unquestioned assumptions. Man is both an individual and a member of a community. One cannot be separated from the other without destroying something valid in both. The individualism that stresses complete freedom from any kind of social control, is a practical impossibility because it leads to the disintegration of the society and gives complete licence to the individual to break or make social institutions at will, overthrow ideals and value-assumptions of society according to whatever individual whims dictate. Similarly complete social control that represses the creative and critical urge of the individual, cripples man and leads society to either degeneration and stagnation or sudden and violent social upheaval. Education preserves the basic structure of society by conserving all that is worthwhile in basic values and institutions, by transmitting them to the next generation and by renewing culture afresh whenever degeneration, stagnation or loss of values occurs. At the same time, the job of education is, to use the words of professor Jeffrey’s, ‘the nurture of personal growth’. It is through this nurture of the individual and the preservation and transmission of culture that both the individual and society attain a ‘quality of life’. Education conveys this sense of quality to pupils, the quality that has an objective status beyond any subjective assumptions and assertions, but which requires individual cognition if individuals are to grow as full men and women.