DR APJ ABDUL KALAM INTERACTION WITH STUDENTS | TEACHERS | DDMS AMS PORPS | JUBILEE HILLS | HYDERABAD

My message to you, young friends, is that education gives you wings to fly. Achievement comes out of fire in our sub-conscious mind that “I will win”. So, each one of you assembled here and elsewhere, will have “Wings of Fire”. The Wing of Fire will indeed lead to knowledge, which will make you to fly as a doctor, or an engineer, or a scientist, or a teacher, or a political leader, or a bureaucrat or a diplomat or anything you want to be. You all can do it. Now, I would like to share with you some incidents of value based educational intervention by Lead India 2020 movements to the school students which may give you the idea on how the education empowers the youth. I can do it When I was the President of India, I met the group of tribal students from Lead India 2020 movement, on 28th August 2006. I asked all of them one question: “What do you want to be?” Out of many responses, one visually challenged boy studying IX class got up. His name is Srikanth, he