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Question
Answer the following in your own words, and write in your notebook.
How were different virtues inculcated in Dr. Kalam?
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Solution
Dr. Kalam inculcated the virtue of humility from his father who was a boatman. He learned from his father how simplicity and divinity could go together.
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Get into pairs/groups and match the columns :
| ‘A’ | ‘B’ |
| (1) Science | The study of the basic nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially as an academic subject. |
| (2) Religion | The study of the nature of God and religious belief. |
| (3) Spirituality | The intellectual and practical activities in a systematic study of structure and behaviour of the natural world through experiment and observation. |
| (4) Philosophy | The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power of God. |
| (5) Theology | The quality of being more concerned with the human spirit as opposed to material or physical things. |
Given below are some incomplete Quote. Complete them choosing from the words SCIENCE/RELIGION/SPIRITUAL and make them meaningful :
_______________ without religion is lame; _________________without science is blind.
Do you think that science and faith are both important in our lives? Why? Discuss in your group and give a small presentation in front of the class.
Read ‘Part I’ and match the words in Column ‘A’ with associating words given in Column ‘B’.
| No | 'A' | 'B' | |
| (i) | Science and faith | (a) | Created by fact and faith |
| (ii) | Science | (b) | Success of societies |
| (iii) | Better Planet | (c) | Betterment of humanity |
| (iv) | Creations and Discoveries | (d) | Believers of science and religions |
| (v) |
Conflict |
(e) | Solves questions, discovers the truth, conceives inventions |
Read ‘Part II’. Go through the given statement and say whether you agree or disagree with the statement.
The Space Research set up facility was planned at Allapi, Kerala - __________.
Read ‘Part II’. Go through the given statement and say whether you agree or disagree with the statement.
It was quite easy to relocate so many people and destroy religious institutions for space- research centre - ___________________.
Who said to whom and when?
“And then God will shine through us.”
Go through ‘Part III’ and complete the following statement.
Mahaswamiji’s greatest contribution is the _____________.
Go through ‘Part III’ and complete the following statement.
We can remove the impurities obscuring our souls by ____________.
Read Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s very renowned books ‘Wings of Fire’; and ‘Ignited Minds’, to find the following :
(a) Subject of the book
(b) Special features of the book
(c) Teachings/learnings/moral/message from the book
(d) Your own opinion/idea/comment on the book
