Neethu Peter

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

A traditional technique used by young shepherds of Ethiopia's Banna tribe. They use stilts to watch over their livestock in tall grass, move through wetland areas, and avoid snakes and predators like lions and leopards. It requires strength, balance, and training from a young age.

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name is Ranjitsinh Disale.

He wanted to be an engineer. When that did not work out, his father suggested he train as a teacher instead.

In 2009, he was posted to a government primary school in Paritewadi, a small village in Solapur district, Maharashtra. The school was a crumbling building wedged between two storerooms, one of which had been used as a cattle shed.

What he found there troubled him.

Girls were being married off young instead of being sent to class. Attendance was poor. The textbooks were written in a language many of the children, who spoke Kannada at home, could not properly read.

He decided to fix all of it, starting with the books.

He learned the children’s mother tongue and rewrote their textbooks in a language they could actually understand.

Then he did something no one in India was doing at the time.

He printed unique QR codes inside the textbooks, allowing students with access to a phone to scan a page and instantly access audio poems, video lessons and practice questions.

A village school in Solapur had built a digital classroom out of paper and printed squares.

The results changed the village.

Girls’ attendance reached nearly one hundred percent. Teenage marriages in the area stopped. His QR code idea worked so well that the Maharashtra government adopted it across the state.

The following year, the national education body embedded QR codes in textbooks across the country.

In 2020, Ranjitsinh Disale won the Global Teacher Prize. He was chosen from more than twelve thousand nominations across roughly one hundred and forty countries and was the only Indian in the top ten.

The award carried one million dollars, around seven crore rupees.

Then he did something no winner had ever done before.

He announced that he would give away half the prize money, dividing it equally among the other nine finalists so that their work could continue as well.

He said teachers are the real change makers.

He meant all of them, not just himself.

A man who became a teacher only because engineering did not work out changed how an entire country learns, and then gave half his fortune to the people he had competed against.

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[Dr. A. Velumani.PhD. @velumania]

My experience after being an employee and then an employer

1. Majority of born poor and / or parented, can simplify and solve big problems easily.

2. Majority of born rich and / or pampered can complicate and create big problems easily.

Employ Poor, Village born, parented and fresher for long term success.

What is easy to do is not right to do.
What is right to do is not easy to do.

Choose, what is difficult to do.

[Kaveri 🇮🇳 @ikaveri]

What a great game… No one faces any trouble or opposition when going in the opposite direction... It is the same with thoughts… People with different thoughts can live happily.
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[Neethu Peter @neethupeter]

@uwbe @DisCollrkgiri Thank you for all the incredible support from Krishnagiri District Administration and Block officers of Hosur and Shoolagiri blocks and the Panchayat bodies of all the three Panchayats.

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

If you approach the world from lens of curiosity and humility, it keeps on giving.

[Neethu Peter @neethupeter]

@JungleWalaIFS @pravinkumar_93 @timesofindia 😂😂

[Neethu Peter @neethupeter]

How true @nikhilkamathcio T totally believe in this philosophy. Heard this from a friend about 8 years back. Have always felt how true and it makes life so light :)

[Nikhil Kamath @nikhilkamathcio]

Eventually, we are all less important than we think we are
🧑‍🦱🧍‍♀️=🐕,🐈,🐻,🐀

Be here now...

[Parminder Singh @parrysingh]

At the end of the interview, I posed my usual question, "Do you have any questions for me?"
Her reply was unexpected. She asked, "Yes, I do. I hope I've demonstrated why you should hire me. Can you convince me why I should work for you?"
I presented my case, ending with, "If you're convinced, we'd be thrilled to offer you the position!"
She accepted and turned out to be an excellent hire.

It pays to surround yourself with individuals who have the courage to speak their mind!

[United Way Bengaluru @uwbe]

Glimpses from a 2-day Block Level Teacher Training Workshop for 150+teachers (sci, math, eng) of class 6,7,8 in collaboration w. @azimpremjifoundation. Thank you @ChikkballapurZP for your support. This was a platform for teachers to delve into (1/2)

[Neethu Peter @neethupeter]

@JungleWalaIFS 😂

[Nikhil Kamath @nikhilkamathcio]

The more #philosophy you read (not stoic), having a community seems to be the biggest precursor to #happiness (as fleeting as it might be).

I have 5 bros in my life I would do all for, life-changing this is, seriously ♥️

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

Being content is the only way to true freedom. A person who embodies this is my father-in-law, Shivaji Patil
He was in the Indian Army & voluntarily retired as a Havaldar after losing his fingers to frostbite during the Kargil War. He started a grocery shop in Belgaum after. 1/5

[Neethu Peter @neethupeter]

@PraveenIFShere 😂😂

[Neethu Peter @neethupeter]

@ParveenKaswan Sir, May we get to watch this documentary please?

[Prakash Mallya @PrakashMallya]

A single person with clarity of conscience and a willingness to speak up can make a difference.

#leadership

[Neethu Peter @neethupeter]

@PraveenIFShere "Happy Diwali" response was incredible 😂😂

[Praveen Angusamy IFS 🐾 @JungleWalaIFS]

Dogs belong at our homes & not in the streets. Period. #Noida

[Neethu Peter @neethupeter]

@itsmesabita @PraveenIFShere @iamgopalsingh 😂