Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji in Rishikesh, India: I heard a story of a college professor in New York who gave his business economy students the assignment of going into a slum and finding ten children each to interview.
Then, the university students had to prepare reports on each of the ten children they had interviewed.
The final item of the assignment was for the students to rate each child’s chance of success in the world.
So, the students all completed their assignments.
With twenty students in the class, the professor ended up with 200 papers on 200 different children living in a slum area.
Every single report ended with the last question, ‘What are this child’s chances of success in the world?’
Each had the same answer: ‘This child has no chance.’ [Read more…]
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