posted by Anil Vaidya
June 3, 2010
Education and innovations are two words that ring a bell for me anytime, anywhere. The works of the great always spur me into doing something. Last week’s visit to APS museum displaying Charles Darwin’s notes and his books was an experience I simply cannot keep from sharing. The feelings, the emotions of reading about the ‘Origin of Species’ were beyond words. I was awestruck by his theorization of natural selection.
I went through the brochures at the museum, then read Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison. Somewhere, all this reading struck a familiar chord; it seemed to align with the innovative spirit that we want to light at SCIT. Our education rigour, our focus on research, the entrepreneurship drive all provide sparks needed to ignite our young minds. I long to see our students and our alumni following footsteps of the greatest of the scientists, philosophers, management gurus, industrialists, educationists and so on.
I also had the rare opportunity of visiting an exhibition of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen. It was not the greatness of a king but his work for contemporary Egyptian society and his thought process in the backdrop of philosophical turmoil got me contemplating. In our own land we have many examples of religious and philosophical creations at very tender age. We draw inspiration from the historical events and the people who made history. I look at them as the guiding lights illuminating my own path, prompting me to march on unhaltingly.
There’s an human museum in Bhopal Madhya Pradesh. It kind of evokes the same feeling . I went there in 2006 and upon returning cant help but think of how to do something new, something beneficial to society. This gave me the idea of SKP pune, which is a resounding success