Abdul Kalam
Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen "A. P. J." Abdul Kalamwas the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. A career scientist turned politician, Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisationand Indian Space Research Organisationand was intimately involved in India's civilian space program and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 October 1931
CityRameswaram, India
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Small aim is a crime; have great aim.
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To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
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