From the dawn of human civilization people have been engaged in the teaching and learning processes. Life perhaps is an unremitting utilization of the experience, one gains from day to day life.
I was a fistful of clay when i was put in a room full of other small mounds of clay. I didn’t know what i would be transformed to as i didn’t know what i am. The time passed and i realised that i was being acted upon by some dexterous moulders who were trying every now and then to give me the best possible shape. The tint of personification and experience was what made me a sagacious human creature and that is why i feel that although i am a product of God’s creation but what i have been transformed to in my life is mainly due to magnanimous effort of those skillful moulders.
Today looking back at the time that has passed, one wonders how fortunate are the ones that have been a part of this big establishment. The best platform for learning after mother’s lap is one’s school and it is this difference of school that creates people with different contemplative minds and different thinking. Burn Hall school has not only provided an extended platform for exploring the talents within, but has also played a major role in integrating these talents together to create bigger avenues that have proved fruitful for the students and the society at large. Being a student is always joyful and what else one can desire if he is an eternal part of ‘this’ school. The school has unwrapped the gifts the creation has bestowed upon us and taught us to use them in a rational way. One feels proud to be a Burnhallion and feels blessed for it. For all of us it has been a home away from home. Not just because we have spent more time in school, but because of the warmth and genuine affection that persists within this family.
The school days have undoubtedly been the most joyful days and the memories of being with friends, that first act of sharing and building a relationship with the unknowns are some divine things that one can learn in his lifetime. The atmosphere within the school is of heaven, perhaps ineffable because everything seems to be so perfect that it is beyond one’s imagination. Perhaps out of love and compassion; i always see angels moving around in the compound every now and then thus making me strongly believe that it is one of the holiest places i have been to, a place touched by GOD’s grace and blessings.
I have heard that if one teaches you even a single word, you ought to respect him/her. And with so many teachers and so many words taught it seems that our entire lifetime is insufficient for paying back what the teachers have given to us. The peculiar teacher -student relation is something that makes this school a little different from others and a little special.
The impact the school has left on each one’s mind is beyond the understanding of mankind and wherever we go and whatever we pursue the feeling of being a Burnhallian will always remain with us and will motivate us and enthuse us to do the impossible and facilitate to make benefits for the society as well as for the entire mankind.
By that very thought of me.
SAALIS MAQBOOL dated: 18-10-2010
