An INTERACTIVE GROUP DISCUSSION

Asked the students to form teams and give their opinion on a chosen issue, then ask questions to the audience to get their views and try to test their stand on the issue against popular opinion and if needed how the team can be more accommodating, flexible and evolving.

1. Are Engineers socially committed ?

Team A's view: Most of them are not socially committed. We agree with this view.

2. Do you see a change on the ground in the last 3 years?

Team B's view: Yes,there are many changes.

3. Are we forgetting how to celebrate festivals?

Team C's view: Yes, today's busy lifestyle changed the way of celebrations of festivals. 

4. Do you think women will emerge stronger than men in future?

Team D's view: In our view the women will emerge stronger.

5. Should govt. run liquor shops?

Team E's view: yes, but with some restrictions.

TO BE CONTINUED...

"WHO IS A GOOD USER" EXERCISE

Asked the students to speak about their actions if they are given Rs.1 lac. The product that buy should be used daily, has a scope for learning new things and also it should give them a chance to help others/society. In other words, it should make them a social entrepreneur. 

TO BE CONTINUED...

TOPICS FOR CONVERSATIONS

Asked the students to divide themselves into teams of five to six members each and then come to face the audience one by one. One person in the team would go to the other side and face the questions asked by the other members of the same team. The whole conversation would take place before the audience. The topics for conversation given to the teams were the following:

1. Something new in my life....

2. A joint property/issue....

3. A change that you observe...

4. Something exciting in your life...

5. A problem that you faced...

TO BE CONTINUED...

EC THOUGHTS

Thoughts on Movies 

Thoughts in Movies

Thoughts on Themes

"Great" Thoughts
THOUGHTS 2018

EC Blog Thoughts

Thoughts in Songs

Thoughts Delight!
Thoughts in Words

Genius Thoughts

EC Green Thoughts

EC Wise 

EC Inspires

EC Speeches

Easy Poems

Great Words

Made in India
Tweet Thoughts
Writer's thoughts
Thoughts on Wheels
Movie Thoughts
Thoughts on God
Spiritual Thoughts

Depth in Thoughts

TO BE CONTINUED...

EC - It's a Mind's Delight

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Help to make earth happy,
Like the Heaven above.

Julia A. F. Carney

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Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you:

But when the leaves hang trembling,

The wind is passing through. 

Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I:

But when the trees bow down their heads,

The wind is passing by.

 Christina Rossetti 
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I am only one, but still I am one.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work, and my god.

Helen Keller

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Two roads converged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference.

The woods were lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep. And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost 
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Find a purpose, the means will follow.
Mahatma Gandhi

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You cannot teach a man anything;you can only help him/her to find it within him/her self.

 Galileo Galilei

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"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."
Rene Descartes
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We have to be mature enough to realise that life is not fair. One can only give the best to the given situation s/he is in.

Stephen Hawking

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Life is... but a walking shadow...a poor player

who "struts and frets" his hour upon the stage.

And then is heard no more.

It's a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

signifying nothing.

Shakespeare

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Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it  is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
From " A prayer for my daughter " by William Butler Yeats
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I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Besides the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten saw I at a glance,
Tossing their in Sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and-gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils. 
William Wordsworth 

VIDEO BASED EXERCISE

Asked the participants to do three exercises as mentioned in this video by

Matt Abrahams

1. Shout the wrong name of things around you...SKY - LION - BULLDOZER - 

2. Give a gift (imaginary, of course!)....and then justify your choice...Oh! What a surprise! A pet giraffe....So you like it very much. I am so happy. And you know why I gave you this because.....

2. Communicate by spelling the words (and not by telling them)....W-H-A-T I-S Y-O-U-R N-A-M-E?

TO BE CONTINUED...