Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
Abdul KalamRead
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of learning English for access to scientific knowledge, while also expressing hope for the future of scientific works in local languages.
In this quote, Abdul Kalam highlights the current necessity of the English language for accessing original scientific literature. He anticipates a future where scientific works will be published in various native languages, allowing greater access to knowledge and a parallel to Japan’s advancements in embracing and translating science for their populace.
Themes
EnglishScienceLanguageEducationKnowledge
In practice
Example use cases
During a seminar on global education, one might use this quote to stress the need for language proficiency in accessing academic resources.
More from Abdul Kalam
All quotes →You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Abdul KalamRead
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.
Abdul KalamRead
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Abdul KalamRead
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
Abdul KalamRead
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Abdul KalamRead
Similar quotes
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
Cynthia OzickRead
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
Maria MontessoriRead
Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
Maria MontessoriRead
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
Peter DruckerRead
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John UpdikeRead
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.
Ronald ReaganRead