Uh! It is time to stretch our arms, rub our eyes, straighten our necks, take deep breath, and shake our heads to lighten the pressure that remained mounted on our body. We have done our part, done well. We have appropriately and adequately waved farewell to our first half of academic session 2013. It has come to a satisfying end. Teachers and students came together; resources polled and used, new initiatives made, old ways thanked and made to respite by new innovations, we have designed and created, participated and won. In short, all these are to sum up the activities our school has carried out in our glorious past. Thanks to everyone; teachers and students, Dzongkhags and ministries, departments and agencies, for lending us their relentless support when we were at the helm of endeavors that exerted pressure for unlimited wants. We got our support much before our energy to reckon got exhausted. I am extremely gratified. I credit successes of our school onto your names.
My expression of gratification does not end here. It will drag on as long as education drags on. The process of education is eternal. It must pull on with all its accessories. The never-ending journey of education is well expressed by Lord Alfred Tennyson when he says: ‘All experience is an arch wherethru’ gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.’ We cannot have education in isolation either. All over again, I may need your hands and hearts, your paramount support, your willingness to sacrifice time and sleep, your perseverance to travel through misty and alien worlds, and your preparedness to explore and discover new heights. Pursuing education is like climbing up a straight pole. We may not reach the top in our first few attempts. But altogether, it is not impossible. Howsoever straight and slippery the pole may be, we have acrobats who do it with the least energy. This is made possible by constant and repeated practices.
Let us unite and march forward. Our grater competitors lie in the close proximity of our school with its armour fastened well and all necessary weapons. They are over-confident in thought to defeat us and divert our course through the roughest and darkest gorges where they would easily ensnare us. Where would we go then? We are trapped in between devil and the death. To fight death is impossible. I see a ray of hope in fighting against devil no matter how monstrous and grotesque it looks. Preparation is what is required to fight to win. It is nothing daunting and deadening.
Teachers of Baylling have all necessary requisite for students’ preparation. This is neither sycophancy nor self praise. We have armour set aside for deserving students. Teachers always nourish dreams about students and when fulfilled relish its jovial satisfaction. Teachers do not mind lending their precious Excalibur (Sword of Legendary King Arthur believed to possess mystic power. Here, synonymous with knowledge teacher possesses) to anyone. However, no matter how sympathetic teachers are with students, they cannot fight wrathful enemies. Teachers have fought and won. Now they are at the apex of mountain waiting for students to win and join them. Despite having unfathomable desire to help students fight, rules forbid them to descend from top to the plains.
Drive to prepare to win must sprout out from students. It is individual student to harness dreams of victory and prepare accordingly. Tolerate minute inconveniences that may impede your ways; turn failures to opportunity by using logic, learn that success is an end result of hard work, persevere- for victory may never be realized at first attempt, sacrifice-is difficult but worthy at times to reap plump sweet fruits. In culmination, students must remember lot more demands to cling on to like reflecting upon poor parents’ condition at home, imagining how difficult and downtrodden one would become if not prepared well for competitive job worlds, understanding the type of leadership His Majesty dreamt of while mentioning ‘The youths of today are the leaders of tomorrow’, questioning the purpose of your being in school, and contemplating about your deeply rooted responsibilities of serving the King, Country and the People.
My expression of gratification does not end here. It will drag on as long as education drags on. The process of education is eternal. It must pull on with all its accessories. The never-ending journey of education is well expressed by Lord Alfred Tennyson when he says: ‘All experience is an arch wherethru’ gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.’ We cannot have education in isolation either. All over again, I may need your hands and hearts, your paramount support, your willingness to sacrifice time and sleep, your perseverance to travel through misty and alien worlds, and your preparedness to explore and discover new heights. Pursuing education is like climbing up a straight pole. We may not reach the top in our first few attempts. But altogether, it is not impossible. Howsoever straight and slippery the pole may be, we have acrobats who do it with the least energy. This is made possible by constant and repeated practices.
Let us unite and march forward. Our grater competitors lie in the close proximity of our school with its armour fastened well and all necessary weapons. They are over-confident in thought to defeat us and divert our course through the roughest and darkest gorges where they would easily ensnare us. Where would we go then? We are trapped in between devil and the death. To fight death is impossible. I see a ray of hope in fighting against devil no matter how monstrous and grotesque it looks. Preparation is what is required to fight to win. It is nothing daunting and deadening.
Teachers of Baylling have all necessary requisite for students’ preparation. This is neither sycophancy nor self praise. We have armour set aside for deserving students. Teachers always nourish dreams about students and when fulfilled relish its jovial satisfaction. Teachers do not mind lending their precious Excalibur (Sword of Legendary King Arthur believed to possess mystic power. Here, synonymous with knowledge teacher possesses) to anyone. However, no matter how sympathetic teachers are with students, they cannot fight wrathful enemies. Teachers have fought and won. Now they are at the apex of mountain waiting for students to win and join them. Despite having unfathomable desire to help students fight, rules forbid them to descend from top to the plains.
Drive to prepare to win must sprout out from students. It is individual student to harness dreams of victory and prepare accordingly. Tolerate minute inconveniences that may impede your ways; turn failures to opportunity by using logic, learn that success is an end result of hard work, persevere- for victory may never be realized at first attempt, sacrifice-is difficult but worthy at times to reap plump sweet fruits. In culmination, students must remember lot more demands to cling on to like reflecting upon poor parents’ condition at home, imagining how difficult and downtrodden one would become if not prepared well for competitive job worlds, understanding the type of leadership His Majesty dreamt of while mentioning ‘The youths of today are the leaders of tomorrow’, questioning the purpose of your being in school, and contemplating about your deeply rooted responsibilities of serving the King, Country and the People.
I bestow my warmest regards and the very best wishes to all Baylling HSS family members, in this second 2013 academic session. May unconquered parts be conquered, undiscovered treasure from books be discovered, works incomplete gets completed, and unpleasant changes shape and become pleasant! May disasters, misfortunes, tides of undesired commotion, and unexpected friction resulting from indiscipline not find its breathing space in our territory!
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