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Category: Education

  • ‘The Pencil of Change’

    Over the past few years, our team at BioVision Charitable Trust, led by our awesome Professor turned President, has been on a mission: lending a hand to students who need it most. We’ve provided them with study materials like bags, notebooks, and all the tools they need, but you know what? A simple pencil symbolizes it all perfectly. It’s a writing tool that holds the power to work wonders, yet it’s affordable for everyone. Spending time with these young minds always brings back memories of their incredible innocence and boundless dreams.

    Thinking back to when I was a kid, getting a half-used pencil was like hitting the jackpot! Back then, having even one pen was super important, and having a spare was like winning the lottery. I remember scavenging blank pages from old notebooks to make new ones because, purchasing new was out of reach, well, we had to get creative when it came to school supplies!

    Looking back on those days, I’m proud of who I am now. Instead of dwelling on the tough times, I’m grateful for the strength those times gave me. Life in urban areas might offer a bit more comfort, but in remote areas, it’s like facing a trial by fire. Yet, witnessing the sheer determination of these young students, I have no doubt they’ll achieve remarkable feats and fill us all with pride.

    They just need a little push in the right direction. It might not be just up to me or you to guide them, but if we all pitch in, we can make a real difference. Kind of like how sharing your food with someone else feels way better than just eating it all yourself.

    Remembering the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi about non-violence and Netaji’s fiery call for freedom, it’s clear we’ve come a long way. But now, it’s time for a new kind of revolution—one where we all think about the well-being of not just people, but everything on this crazy planet.

    So, let’s arm everyone with the simplest of tools—a pencil—and watch as greatness unfolds. Who knows? Maybe from that little graphite stick, we’ll see the rise of heroes and the start of something truly amazing.

    Dr. Sanjay Swami

    (The author is an Associate Professor at T.N. Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Ch. Hospital in Mumbai. Serves as Secretary to BioVision Charitable Trust, he’s deeply involved in various initiatives beyond academia, showcasing his commitment to making a difference in society.)

  • Charity to education for needy Students

    Education helps to remedy many of the other issues that can keep people, families, and even whole communities vulnerable to the cycle of poverty. At its core, a quality education supports a child’s developing social, emotional, cognitive, and communication skills. Education provides stability in life, and it’s something that no one can ever take away from you. By being well-educated and holding a college degree, you increase your chances for better career opportunities and open up new doors for yourself. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Education is the most powerful weapon you can possibly have, and with it, you can make all of your dreams come true. There are of course certain exceptions, depending on what you’re aiming for, but generally, education will take you as far as you’re willing to go.

    Dr. Sanjay Swami

    (The author is an Associate Professor at Topiwala National Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, and is also a Secretary of BioVision Charitable Trust)

  • Educate the future generation

    In this digitalized global age, the next generation of young citizens will create jobs, not seek them, and collaborate to advance an increasingly complex world. That will require imagination, empathy, resilience, and entrepreneurship, the ability to fail forward. The most obvious implication of a world that requires learners to constantly adapt and grow is the need to build the capacity and motivation for lifelong learning. People used to learn to do the work; now learning is the work, and the post-industrial era will require coaching, mentoring, teaching, and evaluating that can build passion for learning.

    There must be an appreciation for the value of learning well beyond high school, beyond college graduation. People need to take ownership over what they learn, how they learn, where they learn, and when they learn. And lifelong learning requires people not only to constantly learn new things but also to unlearn and relearn as the world changes.

    Dr. Sanjay Swami

    (The author is an Associate Professor at Topiwala National Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, and is also a Secretary of BioVision Charitable Trust)

  • Why should we appreciate our students?

    In recent years, there have been many problems among a large number of minors, such as moral disordering, being addicted to the Internet, committing crime, sexual crime, suffering from psychological diseases, running away from home, committing suicide, and so on. The reasons are various. In addition to the family estrangement and lack of parents’ raising education, the deeper reason may be that children don’t really feel accepted and appreciated. The deepest humanity principle is to be accepted and recognized. As Diesterweg, a German famous educator said: “The art of education is not to teach knowledge and skills, but to inspire, awake and stimulate”. As a kind of incentive mode of education, appreciation education is consistent with the current education and teaching aims. It is a kind of new teaching idea. Appreciation education is not to praise and encourage, but to appreciate children’s behavior results in order to strengthen the child’s behavior. It is to appreciate children’s behavior process so as to stimulate children’s interest and motivation. It is to create the environment to indicate
    children’s direction of development. It is to alert appropriately, enhance children’s psychological experience, and correct children’s bad behavior.

    Dr. Sanjay Swami

    (The author is an Associate Professor at Topiwala National Medical College and B.Y.L. Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, and is also a Secretary of BioVision Charitable Trust)