“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn”, goes the Benjamin Franklin quote. Here is a story where this quote came alive. The school was conducting a two day residential camp on Leadership Development which in fact was an unplanned one. A 10th grade student comes to the principal and questions him. “Why are you charging the fee for the camp having said that yearlong expenses are involved in the school fee?” The principal was quite quick to sense an opportunity for the child to be involved in the process. Consequently, the budget realities were shown to the student and he was ultimately convinced with the move. Secondly, he had a question about the amount that the school was collecting for the event. The student was given the responsibility to plan the entire event and was asked to see if cost could be reduced. He readily accepted when asked to shoulder the responsibility. When he did the math with his classmates, he realized that...
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