The way of Reading and usage online Resources

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As this famous quotes indicates

“For me, books have been a life-long resource–to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.”

—Lady Bird Johnson

Inculcate Reading habits: Dependency on gadgets and internet actually keeping us away from Reading books and magazines. The bridge between the reading and application is widening. When we start working in companies the reading habits actually take a back seat and we don’t realize that this is actually the time when reading can really help us out in many ways, be it a practical problem you are facing at workplace or you are stressed, books can be your best friend.

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”

—Elizabeth Hardwick

Research: Libraries, online libraries, search engines to be used extensively but only to gather information and data. Plagiarism should be avoided as it might help you in short term but have no long term benefit. The knowledge base will not only increase but you may also will have enough material to go through and help others. Just make sure whatever material you are getting through DO NOT use it without applying your mind. Make sure the material/information is suitable as per your organizational needs and not just a work of COPY and PASTE.

Once, I was called to conduct Viva Voce for the internship project done by MBA students, during the process got hold of 3-4 similar projects, the only difference was the name of the company where the project was undertaken. Ironically none of them copied they BOUGHT the project reports from a local stationer and just changed the name of the company.

And what happened later on, their marks got stuck and they could not clear the university examinations and have to reappear for exams.

Hence, such practices need to be abolished as it brings shame.

“The principle goal of education is to create men and woman who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done” Jean Piaget

Value Your Education: what you teachers taught is not about grasping or cramming, it is also about knowing how to develop and use your own critical and analytical abilities to process any information or answer. In a way you could say that learning is about learning to come into your own as a thinking, creative person. One educated person is truly educated if (S) he applies knowledge and think out of the box solutions for the same problem. The basic lies in the Efforts.

Give credit: If you still want to copy some material you really like, take permission to reprint or re use it, or give credit to the original source and provide link, that will help you as well as it will save you from unnecessary problems.

So let me end this write up with this quote of Socrates:

“I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.” 
– Socrates