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VOL. 16 No. 2
Teachers and Philosophers DiD you know?

Dr. C.V. raman studied in St. Aloysius High
CHANAkYA school in andhra Pradesh and passed out
of Matriculation in 1899 at age of eleven!
Chanakya, also known as Kautilya Oindrila Bhattacharjee, IX A, Bethany School,
Visakhapatnam
or Vishnugupta, was an ancient
Indian teacher, philosopher, economist, iSHwAR CHANDRA ViDYASAGAR
jurist, and royal advisor. He is best He was a philosopher, academic educator,
known for the ancient Indian political and writer. He received the title ‘Vidyasagar’
treatise Arthashastra. Illustration by: Ojus Goel,
X, Swami Vivekanand which means ocean of knowledge, from
harsh, Vi, swami Vivekanand Public school, Public School, Jagadhri Sanskrit College in Kolkata due to his
Jagadhri; Divleen singh rataul, X, spring Dale
senior school, amritsar; Yash singh, iX b, CrPF Public school, rohini excellent performance in Sanskrit
studies and philosophy. He contributed Illustration by: Sulagna
SAViTRiBAi pHuLE significantly to Bengali and Sanskrit Bhowmick, IXD, Bright
literature.
Day School CBSE
She was the first female teacher of the first sulagna bhowmick, iX D, bright Day school Cbse, Vasna, Vadodara
women school in India and is credited for Vasna, Vadodara
founding the first girls’ school in Pune
with her husband Jyotirao Phule.
RABiNDRANATH TAGORE
r. sambhavi, Vi b, akshara school, Kakinada;
arunima ranjan sinha, Viii C, bharatiya Illustration by: Keshvi Trivedi, Tagore started writing at the age of sixteen.
Vidya bhavan atmakuri rama rao school, IXA, Bright Day School CBSE, In these long years of his literary career he
hyderabad Vasna Vadodara
wrote several poems, short stories, novels,
SwAMi ViVEkANANDA plays, and non-fiction. On December 22,
1901, Tagore established an experiment
Born as Narendranath Dutta, he was Illustration by: school at Santiniketan.
pivotal in introducing the philosophies Veda Joshi, Kanak inani, Vi C, Maharana Mewar Public school, udaipur;
VIII A, Summer
of Vedanta and Yoga. He propagated Fields School, ananya reddy.a, iX e, bharatiya Vidya bhavan’s Public
the Gurukul system. Kailash Colony, school, Vidyashram, Jubilee hills, hyderabad
New Delhi
suhani, Vii b, P.K.r Jain sr. sec. Public school, Illustration by: Veda Joshi,
ambala; Nikhil, Vi, little Ones Public school, VIII A, Summer Fields School,
New Delhi Kailash Colony, New Delhi DR. A.p.j ABDuL kALAM
He was a scientist and India’s 11th
DR. SARVEpALLi RADHAkRiSHNAN president. He was a guest lecturer at

He was born on 5th September, 1888, in prestigious institutions like IIM Shillong,
Ahmedabad and Banaras Hindu University.
Andhra Pradesh. He was a remarkable
educationist and taught philosophy in He believed that apart from a mere Illustration by:
academic degree, a student should also
universities of Andhra, Mysore, and Calcutta. Veda Joshi, VIII
He also became professor at Oxford enhance his personal skills and calibre. A, Summer Fields
School, Kailash
University. r. sanga elakiya, Vii C, revoor Padmanabha Chetty's Colony, New Delhi
Illustration by: Aayush, Matric hr. sec. school, Chennai; anvi Parikh, Vi C,
hiya sharma, Viii D, P.K.r Jain sr. sec. Public VI, Swami Vivekanand Maharana Mewar Public school, udaipur; hitanshi
school, ambala Public School, Jagadhri sahni, Viii a, summer Fields school, Kailash Colony, New Delhi

ACTiViTY: TEACHERS’ pET, iS THAT YOu?
SwAMi DAYANAND SARASwATi
Swami Dayanand Saraswati was the founder of Arya Dr. Radhakrishnan’s students and friends asked him for
his birthday celebrations to which he replied, “Instead of
Samaj, a Hindu reform movement of the Vedic tradition. celebrating my birthday, it would be my privilege if it gets
He brought about a complete overhaul of the education observed as Teachers’ Day.”
system by introducing the Anglo-Vedic School.
Reflect upon different ways, in which you can help and
Vrinda arora, Vi g, Maharana Mewar Public school, udaipur; arpita Kewat,
Nachiketa senior secondary school, Vijay Nagar, Jabalpur respect your teacher every day.

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