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“gaining admission to the IITs was more difficult than getting into the best Ivy League schools in the United States.”
Jesus: “For what does it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
The dreams of our brightest and best students are ones that have been consciously and unconsciously ingrained in them by social conditioning, by their parents and teachers.
Are we not leaving our young students “magnificently unprepared, for the long littleness of life?” as Rupert Brooke puts it so eloquently.
although we may pretend not to care. Our state of mind is often completely at the mercy of circumstances, at the way other people behave or fail to behave.
Many of those dreams are identifiable with whatever it is that causes envy in others, and awakening implies, among other things, an immediate freedom from this stupid obsession. Also,
