Lesson learnt

http://www.vyasamadhwa.org/upanyasa/Workshop/Transcripts/Lessons_Of_Mahabharata.html

Child Learning When It Still Is In the Mother's Womb

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/like-abhimanyu-in-mahabharata-is-it-possible-for-a-child-to-learn-something-when-it-still-is-in-the-mother-s-womb/11104014/answers

Students should be like Arjuna

When Guru Dronacharya is appointed the Commander in Chief of the Kuru Army during Mahabharata he immediately announces the formation of “Chakravayu” While discussing the same with Duryodhana he asks that Arjun’s attention be diverted to another front so that he can capture Yudhistra bringing war to an end as Arjuna was the only person capable apart from Ashwathama to enter and exit the Chakravayu.

On hearing this Dushassan flew into a rage and accused Dronacharya of being partial and teaching Arjuna more than all other pupils. The answer Guru Dronacharya gives to Dusshasan is also my case for continued learning from managers and students alike. He tells Dushassan the reason why Arjuna is more capable than all the Pandavas and Kauravas alike is not because he taught him more but because he was an “Active Learner” and while everyone took his teaching as the end, Arjuna took his teaching as the beginning and continued his quest for learning and today is the only student of his who can challenge him in the battlefield.

Note: “I know everything”, the three most frightening words you can ever hear in corridors of colleges. In a fast changing dynamic world can we really say we know everything?