India, Aug. 14 -- "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
This timeless truth carries more weight today than ever before. We live in an age where excellence is often praised but rarely practiced, where clarity has been traded for convenience, and where standards are not raised but quietly lowered to make life easier. In our classrooms, the phrase "It's okay" has become a soothing bandage for failure - offered to comfort rather than correct.
"It's okay." When we lower the bar in the name of kindness, we inadvertently endorse mediocrity. Confusion doesn't stem from ignorance; it grows in the absence of clear expectations. If excellence is a lighthouse, culture can be the fog. When that fog thickens with excuses, inacti...