Rahul Gandhi praises youth's expression of dissent, says they are not angry, violent or hateful. He quotes a student's definition of a student as someone with an open mind and heart, who accepts they don't know everything and respects the truth of others.
“A student is someone with an open mind and heart, who accepts they don't know everything and respects the truth of others.”
Thank you, Speaker Sir, for letting me speak on the subject of the of students, of their exams, of the education system, of your proposed bill. But before I start, I'd like to say that I was very excited, reassured by what the future of this country did on our streets. This was not anger. This was not violence. This was not hatred. This was an expression, deep expression of the youth of this country, of the future generation of this country. And I feel that all political parties must respect this expression, including my friends in the BJP. In fact, I'm pretty certain, and I've seen examples of it. If my friends in the BJP were to go and ask their own children what they felt about what their brothers and sisters were doing, they would find agreement among their own children. There is nothing wrong with what has happened and every Indian should be proud. Now, I thought I'm going to be giving a speech about the next generation. And so I was thinking how do I start this speech What should be the starting point of this speech and i thought a good starting point speaker sir would be a conversation i had with some students young girls which gave me a very interesting perspective It was their perspective, but I think I agree with the perspective. I'd like to lay this framework first on the table. The question I asked the girl was, you said to me that you're a student. What does this mean? does it mean that you study in a college does it mean that you study in a school does it mean you read books what does it mean she gave me the most beautiful answer she said a student is someone who has an open mind an open heart student is someone who right from the beginning accepts that they do not know everything. Student accepts that whatever he knows will be superseded later by new knowledge. Student understands that the universe is constantly changing. Dynamic. in movement. And so student understands that knowledge is also constantly changing. Most important value of a student. She said to me. I asked her. I said, yeah, very good definition. What's the most important value of a student? She said, in one second, humility. I said, why? She said the student knows that they do not know the truth. The student respects the truth of all other living beings, all other human beings. Like Gandhiji said in his autobiography, the search for my truth, meaning this is my truth, your truth might be different. Then I asked her the next question. I said, you've defined the category very well. This category of student. Who else is there? She says there is another group of people. They are not students. Who are they? She says they are absolutely convinced that they know everything They believe that the universe is static And they believe that knowledge emerges from inside them they believe that they are God that everything that is to be known is known to them they are arrogant they are arrogant they don't listen they don't respect other people's truth so I said what do you call these people she said I call them idiots so so I so she said to me she said to me there are two categories there are two categories in this world the student she said a father can be a student a lawyer can be a student a doctor can be a student unemployed youth can be a student it's the first to learn first to understand like a sponge you want to take everything in you want to understand it's beautiful it's it's even respecting the rest of the universe what about these idiots she says to me these idiots they don't listen to anything anyone says She said to me, lovely God. Please, one minute. I am not talking about you. I am not talking about you. I beg you, I beg you. Sir, I didn't even take his name. Listen to me. One minute. One minute. Let's assume that the party leader is insisting that we are discussing on the foreign policy. I am doing it sir. I am defining a student. Sir, I am defining a student. Let me carry on. Sir, so I said, so I said sir, the student, what is the aim of this? skill time to sleep with a bula student kalakshota a kevo such a cap each a such a cap each a daughter at a which kill a such a meaty o t truth is sweet کہہ رہا ہے کہ اس کے گھنٹے ہیں جو سب سے بھروں میں اکڑے ہیں۔ پھر میں نے کہا کہ کیا ایڈیا کیا ہے اور وہ کہتا ہے کیا ہو رہا ہے ہاں حسین صاحب میں کہتا ہے کہ میں کہتا ہوں کہ میں کہتا ہوں کہ میں کہتا ہوں کہ میں ایک اور طرح کے بات کے بات سے کیا کہا جاتا ہے نیکی ، تو کہتا تھا کہ سب سے بہت ساری بات ہوتی ہے۔ سوچتے ہیں کہ سوچتے ہیں کہ سوچتے ہیں کہ اس کے پاس اپنے چیزوں میں اپنی چیزوں میں پیش رکھتے ہیں اور میں نے کہا کہ اس کے بارے میں کیا ہے کہ اس کے بارے میں کہہ رہتا ہے کہ دوسرے طرح ایک تصور ضروری ہے۔ یہ ایک تصور ضروری ہے اور اس تصور کا صحبت نہیں ہے کیونکہ اس کیا بھاگا ہے کہ وہ اللہ ہے۔ میں اس کے بارے میں نہیں بات کر رہا ہوں کیونکہ یہ صحبت نہیں ہے اور بھاگا ہے کہ وہ اللہ ہے اس نے اس کو ایک مزیدی تصور پڑھنے کی ضرورت ہے۔ تو میں نے اس سے سوچا کہ یہ سوچا کہ یہ مہم ہے اور اس نے اس سے ایک بات بتایا کہ یہ تیسری کٹیگری کہاں جاتی ہے یہ تیسری ڈیویڈی کار جاتی ہے اس نے کہا کونسی تیسری کٹیگری میں نے کہا اند بھکت اس کو کہا ڈالا جائے شی سیز ٹو می اند بھکت ایسا پرسن ہوئی ایسا اپسلوٹلی کنوینسٹ ڈیویڈیٹ ایس گارڈ سو ڈیز آر ڈیویڈیٹ ایڈیٹ اور اند بھکت جو اند بھکت پڑھتا ہے۔
