Humility and Appreciation - Welham Boys's School

Humility begins with accepting who we are and what makes us human. As a result, you gain control over your attitude and outlook.

Appreciation is giving something or someone their proper value, and everybody has value.

We practice Humility and Appreciate in our day-to-day lives unknowingly. Consciously, there have been instances where I have tried to incorporate these virtues in the classroom.

One evening, I heard my students crying in the hostel. I was curious to know what had happened that led them to be so upset. So, I asked a few questions and discovered that it was one of the student’s birthdays, and these kids were sent back from the ceremony due to the shortage of cake pieces. So, I decided to discuss it in the classroom the following day. It was essential to address this issue.

As I walked into the class, I wished that student “happy birthday” and asked why I wasn’t invited to the cake-cutting ceremony. That’s when a few other students got up from their seats and said since there was a small cake, even they were uninvited after being invited. As soon as I learned that, I spoke to the birthday boy and explained the importance of a guest and that they should be treated respectfully. 

One should never be uninvited once invited. The student nodded and learnt a new life lesson as he said he felt terrible about doing it. Suddenly, another student got up from his chair, recalling when one of his classmates had given his share of the cake to him when there was a shortage of another piece. I made the whole class stand up and clap for the kid, making a point to appreciate him for the hidden virtue of humility. 

These two incidents strongly impacted the kids and taught them humility and appreciation. This completely changed the perspective of that student whose complaints had no limits. He was one of the naughtiest, most mischievous and troublesome kids. I took away a lesson of never judging a book by its cover. This accurately shows humility, appreciation, and how unnoticeable these virtues are.

- Neelima Parmar, Monika Gupta and Vandana Sahay

Welham Boys’ School

Unity and Caring - Nikita Rajpurohit

Unity and caring are the two important values which we must imbibe in our lives to live a

happier and healthier life. Unity means working together for a common goal. We all are familiar with this proverb, "Unity is Strength"  which implies that when we stay united we stay stronger and can withstand almost any problem. On the other hand, if we keep fighting and become selfish in our endeavours we often fall flat. Where there are teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.  

Caring simply means that you care for others. It means being compassionate and supportive in tough times.  When you care for someone, it makes a huge difference in their lives. These two values can be seen while competing in sports. As we know,  a single player cannot make a match win, the teamwork of the whole team is required. Sometimes, just because of a single mistake of any player, the match goes out of hand and there comes the role of unity, when the whole team needs to go hand in hand to bring the team into the winning slot. Now when the unity comes into action, sometimes the match may take a violent face, when the team 'A' starts harming team 'B' to win. And this is when caring ideology is needed in the players. Because no matter, it's a victory or a defeat, they must care for each other.

There are numerous stories of the past as well as real-life incidents which can be shared with the students to show how important these two values are. Another best example of Unity which can be shared with students is India's freedom struggle where the citizens of India stood together to drive the Britishers out of the country.

Nikita Rajpurohit

The Fabindia School

nra@fabindiaschools.in