The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
- Denis Waitley

Children are flowers blossoming splendidly when nourished with the spring of love, care and affection and bestowed with the lasting bequests of age old reliable values and traditions. When brought up to our designs, their lifelong companions are creativity, flexibility, tolerance and contentment. Optimism governs their natural state of mind and the world is a utopia where dreams take wings and soar uninhibited, settling on the ground of reality at the most opportune time.

I believe children should be conditioned to live not in an illusion of an imaginary cherished world, limited to the mesmerizing tales in the prescribed books, but motivated to pluck the flowering buds from the plausible universe and plant them into their own. Educating them need not involve mere instruction and passive reception of ideas. It should incorporate building self-esteem, enabling them to paint their own canvas of life with as vibrant a hue as conceivable.

Enabling them to rely on the strength of wisdom bequeathed to them and allowing them to develop their own through years of scholarly engagements to thrive in this realm of enthralling diversity takes painstaking efforts and planning. Enlightening them on the ways and means to be employed to discover their own paths, overcoming all pitfalls on the way requires generous amounts of patience and perseverance. Teach them the fruits of responsibility and the savory rewards of fulfilling obligations. The future surely will not be less resplendent.

Ruchi Sharma
Principal
Lord Mahavir Jain Public School