May, 2016 Good Thoughts Calendar
Compiled by london swaminathan
Date: 29 April 2016
Post No. 2767
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31 Proverbs and Sayings on ‘Education’
Festivals in May: 1 May Day, 2 Bank Holiday in England; 9 Akshaya Trutyai; 21 Buddha Purnima, Vaikasi Visakam; 22 Kanchi Mahaswamikal Jayanthi; 31 Dattatreya Jayanti.
Auspicious Days: 2, 4, 9, 11, 12, 19, 26; Full Moon/Purnima- 21; New Moon/Amavasya- 6; Ekadasi Fasting Days: 3, 17
May 1 Sunday
Even if a person of the lowest caste among the four castes is educated, the high caste person would salute (pay respects to) him; knowledgeable person is preferred than an aged person for the government job—Purananuru verse 183
May 2 Monday
“A man who has faith may receive good learning even from a man who is lower, the ultimate law even from a man of the lowest castes, and a jewel of a woman even from a bad family”–2-239
May 3 Tuesday
“Ambrosia may be extracted even from poison,
And good advice even from a child,
Good behaviour even from enemy
And gold even from something impure “– Manu 2-240
May 4 Wednesday
“Women, jewels, learning, law, purification, good advice and various crafts may be acquired from anybody” – Manu 2-241
May 5 Thursday
“Though high born, an unlettered man is deemed lower than a learned man of lower birth. “—Tirukkural 409.
May 6 Friday
Property gained by education belongs to one to whom it was given – Manu 9-206
May 7 Saturday
Just a man who digs with a spade discovers wter, even so the obedient people discovers the learning that is in his guru / teacher.
May 8 Sunday
That wells in the sand abound with springs of water as one digs deep,
So with appropriate education, knowledge gets wider and deeper – Tirukkural 396
May 9 Monday
Learning or knowledge cannot be washed away by the floods; fire cannot burn it’ kings cannot take it away as taxes; even if you give it increases; difficult for thieves to steal t; easy to guard; that wealth is called education. When you have that wealth you don’t need to go around the world for money – Tamil Verse
May 10 Tuesday
Learning without practice is toxic – Canakya neeti
May 11Wednesday
The learned is not a foreigner anywhere – Panchatantra 2-56
May 12 Thursday
No kin (relations) like knowledge
May 13 Friday
Study well those books which are worth studying. Then, follow the right path according to what you have learnt — Tirukkural 391
May 14 Saturday
Strength is no strength; knowledge is power supreme
May 15 Sunday
In this world human birth is rare; rarer still knowledge – Agni purana
May 16 Monday
Education polishes good natures, and correcteth bad ones.
May 17 Tuesday
Learn not and know not
May 18 Wednesday
The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.
May 19 Thursday
Letters and numbers are the two eyes of man – Tirukkural 392
May 20 Friday
Knowledge has bitter roots, but sweet fruits (refers to suffering involved in learning)
May 21 Saturday
Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing (refers to suffering involved in learning)
May 22 Sunday
There is no royal road to learning – Euclid 300 BCE (no easy way)
May 23 Monday
The nature of the learned is to cause delight in companionship and regret in separation Tirukkural 394
May 24 Tuesday
Soon learnt, soon forgotten
May 25 Wednesday
What we first learn, we best can
May 26 Thursday
That which is not bent at five, cannot be bent at fifty (Tamil Proverb)
May 27 Friday
Learning in one’s youth is engraving in stone
May 28 Saturday
Whoso learns young, forgets not when he is old.
May 29 Sunday
The learning that one has imbibed in this birth
Will stand him in good stead in the next seven births Tirukkural 398
May 30 Monday
In every art it is good to have a master.
May 31 Tuesday
Learning is the lasting joyful wealth; all other material wealth are lost in time -Tirukkural 400
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