Writing in his new book, Creating a Learning Planet, Dilip Mukerjea is reminding each and every one of us that "we should be in the business of Championing Children, to become Future-Ready!" 

"As things stand, our children are Future UNready! ALL of US must fight for the futures of our children!"

He appends two beautiful and elegant quotes in the prologue of his book:

"I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. 

As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. 

In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized." 

~ Haim Ginott (1922-1973) ~ school teacher, a child psychologist and psychotherapist and a parent educator. He pioneered techniques for conversing with children that are still taught today';

“The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. 

Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. 

The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.” 

~ Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree;

My Comments: 

In a pragmatic  sense, as I read them, these two beautiful and elegant quotes seem to be Dilip Mulerjea's primary driving forces in writing the insightfful book for educators and other teaching profesionals, as well as for parents and guardians.