8 Intelligence

"Intelligence is the capacity or power ofthemind to face the difficult situations

courageously in our life and find success over them." -by Richard Gurnett

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Life is fullof challenges. We must be readyto face them. We must
Courage
not lose our courage and will-power when we are in the midst of
difficult situations. If we lose our courage, then we will become " Forward looking
desperate. Adesperate man cannot rise up from the failures. So try
to be an optimist and find an opportunity in the difficulty.

We are all citizens of India and we are proud of being so. That is a good thing,
but the question is, are we all ideal citizens? It is not easy to be an ideal
citizen. An ideal citizen,as the term signifies, has and follows high ideals.
Here is astory which shows a great civic sense.
STORY TIME

Once upon atime there lived an old merchant. All his life he
hadtoiled hard in buying and selling goods. Due to this, he
had made a lot of money. As the years went by, he
laid by more and more riches. But the day
came when he felt that he had not long to
remain in this world. He began to wonder,
what he should do with his money.
Now, he had two sons. He made by
his mind that he would not
divide his money between
them, but he wouldgive all
of it to the one who proves

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himself to be more intelligent of the two. He
decided to test his sons. He posed a problem
to them to find the more intelligent of the
two.

Calling the young men, he said to them, "Here

are twO rupees. Iwant you to take one rupee
each andgo out separately and buy something
which will fillthis house conmpletely. Youare not
allowed tospend more than one rupee."
The two sons looked at him as if he had
taken leave of
hissense. 'Howcan we possibly buy
to fill the house with only enough of anything
one rupee? they asked
themselves. They were reluctant to pick up the rupees but the old
man insisted on their doing as he told
them, "Off you go," he said, "and don't
over the business. lexpect youto be take too long
back in a couple of days."
So, each young man took up a
rupee
bazaar. But nothing could he find whichand went out. The first one wandered through the
wandered about looking in all the shops,would
but
in any way serve his purpose.
Allday long he
certain that something had gone nothing could he find. He became
in despair, when he saw awrong with hi_ father. He was about to give upincreasingly
his search
bullock cart witha load of hay. That
thought, 'I wonder how much hay l looks hopeful,' he
can get for a rupee.'
He went up to the driver
of the cart and
price of the hay. There enguired about the
was a good deal of
the price, but in the end
he was able to buy
haggling over
hay for arupee. (This the load of
was in the days when
would buy a great-deal; more a rupee
than it buys now.)
So the young man led
off
father's house.With lot ofthe cart full of hay to his
house, but when it was allhope, he piled it into the
in, he found that it was
not even enough to cover
whole house. the floor, let alone fill the

On the other hand, when

the
with his rupee, he did not second son went out
go straight away to the
bazaar. Instead, he sat down
began to think. For a
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long time he sat thinking
about what he could possibly
buy. At length, when evening
fell, an idea struck him.
Taking his rupee, he walked
quickly down the bazaar till
he came to a shop where
candles were sold. He spent his
rupee on candles, of which he
got-quite a good number. Then,
taking his candles with him, he made
his way back to his house. When he got
there; his brother was standing
disconsolately looking at the hay spread out on
the floor. It was now getting dark. Quickly the
house
second son stood two or three candles in each room. Then he lit them. At once the
was filled with light. Inthis way, he was able to fulfillthe condition laid by his father.
Similarly, we all live in a big house which we call our native country and nation. Each one of
us has been given some money. Some have one rupee, some two rupees, some three and
some four. These rupees are not rupees with which we can buy things, but they are the
different powers we have been given. Each one of us has powers of body, mind and
character. Allof us have strength, time and intelligence, which can
be used. As we complete our education and go out into the
world, we are tested as to how we are going to use these
talents which we possess. Are we going to use them to buy
useless hay, or are we going to use them to spread light all over
our house; that is our country? If we want to be good citizens,
then we shall use our powers and abilities to try to spread light
to all parts of our country; that is we should spend our lives in
the service of our country.
No country can progress unless it has good
citizens. So if we love our country andwant to
serve it, we should behave like good citizens.
A good citizen must be large-hearted and
broad-minded. He must consider himself an
Indian first and anything else afterwards.
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A. Answer the following questions orally:
EXERCISE
1. Who is a citizen?
2. What iscitizenship?
3. What thing could youdo to become a 'better' citizen?
B. Tick (/)the correct option:
1. The nmerchant decided to test his:
a. brothers b. sons C. relatives
2. The first son bought the loadof for arupee.
a. wood b. hay C. cloth
3. The second son spent his rupee on:
a. candles b. oil c. food
C Fillinthe blanks:
1 An ideal citizen follows high
2. The first one wanderedthrough the
3. The second son spent his rupee on
4. We alllive in a big house which we call our
5. No country can unless it has good
D. Answerthe following questions:
1. Who, in your opinion, is an ideal citizen?
2. What was the result of merchant's hard toil?
3. What did the old man's firstson do?
4. What did the old man's second son do?
5. What happenedwhen the secondson lit the candles?
"You belong to your country and your country belongs to you."
stating the rights you get from the country and the duties you llustrate this statement
perform for your country:
My Rights My Duties

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F Discuss any six things that make you proud of yourcountry. Write your views:

G. Make a list of do's and don'ts to be a good citizen.

Do's (/)

Don'ts (X)

H. Make a chart containing information about main languages, food and clothes of all the
Indian states.

Write a paragraph on 'Good Use of Our Powers':

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