This is a very nice article trying to explain...what do we have to be proud of

Excerpt.....

...Knowledge is like a current coin. A man has some right of possessing it, if he has worked for the gold of it, assayed (test, fineness of metal) it, and stamped it, so that it may be received by all men as true; or earned fairly, being already assayed: but if he has done none of these things, but only has it thrown in his face by a passer-by, what cause has he to be proud? And though, in this mendicant fashion, he had heaped together the wealth of crore, would pride any more, for this reason, become him, as in some sort it becomes the man who has worked hard for his fortune, how-ever small? So, if a man tells me the sum is larger than the earth, have I any cause for pride in knowing it? Or, if any multitude of men tell me any number of things, heaping all their wealth of knowledge upon me, have I any reason to feel proud under the heap? And is not any knowledge, of which we boast in these days, cast upon us in this dishonorable way; worked for by other men, proved by them and then forced upon us even against our wills and beaten into us in our youth, before we even have the wit to know if it is good or not. Be assured, there is no part of the furniture of man’s mind which he has hewn and fashioned for himself.

Ankur Mathur

Asstt. Professor

Electrical Deptt.

To read the full article read Ninad 2007 edition.

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