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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Informative and entertaining; the interaction could be summed up so. Former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam entertained the students of Sainik School, Kazhakkoottam, in an amusing but intelligent way.He was interacting with the students as part of school’s golden jubilee celebrations. The school auditorium became a classroom once Kalam started speaking, with the students as well as teachers keenly listening to him.The inspiring words of Kalam made the students so enthusiastic and excited that their responses were quick. For the Sainik School students, Kalam recited his usual mantra - “dream the impossible”.“The names of those who imagine the impossible are engraved in history. Everybody else in the world wants to make you as everybody else. But you should try to become a unique person. Never stop fighting unless you reach your goal,” he said.Kalam also prescribed a four-way technique to become unique: Have a great aim (having a small aim is a crime); continuously acquire knowledge from teachers and books; hard work and perseverance in handling problems. Kalam used his autobiography’s name (‘The Wings of Fire’) to uphold the importance of education: “Education gives you the wings of fire. Knowledge makes one great. It is creativity plus brightness of heart and courage. Creativity leads to thinking and thinking in turn provides knowledge,” he said.But what the former president felt as more powerful was the beauty of heart as, according to him, it brings harmony in home, which leads to order in the nation.His speech was a ‘radiation’ (as he mentioned the presence of one of his school teachers) of ideas which could well inspire teenage folk. Each word entered the students’ mind with the same depth and meaning which he intended. As the talk went on, the teachers also became students.A few students asked him questions and at the end of the programme, Kalam administered a pledge to the students.
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