Essay on Example is Better than Precept : In this article, we are providing ENGLISH ESSAY ON " EXAMPLE IS BETTER THAN PRECEPT " f...
Essay on Example is Better than Precept : In this article, we are providing ENGLISH ESSAY ON "EXAMPLE IS BETTER THAN PRECEPT" for student of all classes.
ENGLISH ESSAY ON "EXAMPLE IS BETTER THAN PRECEPT" FOR CLASS 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12
Deeds are better than words.
Words have meaning and value when those who speak them also live up to them.
When the general elections are on in any country, but especially in India, the
various political parties cry themselves hoarse over the good that they promise
to the people and over the evils from which the people are suffering under the
rule of the other party. But after the elections are over, all high sounding
promises are forgotten. This proves the truth of the saying that example is
better than precept. Similarly rulers of powerful nations praise peace, and let
loose the forces of war. They talk of freedom but practise enslavement and
exploitation. The world is not yet out of the stage of conflict between precept
and example. The world is sick of the double language used by men in power and
position. A glaring example of such double dealing is seen in the case of many
advocates of Hindi. In order to win popularity they raise the slogan of
'Angrezi Hatao', but send their children to English schools because they know
in their heart of hearts that without a good knowledge of English their
children have no future. Another example of glaring inconsistency between
practice and precept is the agitation against cow slaughter. None of these
agitators are ready to keep a cow which has run permanently dry. None of them
are willing to forgo the use of shoes and other goods made of the hide of
slaughtered cows. So many Hindus sell their useless cows and bulls to the
butchers or to the slaughter houses which are run by Hindu contractors and with
Hindu money. It is these hypocrisies which occur to our mind when we reflect over
the theme of the present essay.
Many parties and politicians in
India claim to be champions of Hindu interests and Hindu culture. Their opposite
numbers in Pakistan swear by Muslim interests and Muslim culture. But the sad
reality is that both of them are henchmen of vested interests and of un-Scrupulous
capitalists and profiteers with no manner of sympathy for either the. Hindu or
the Muslim masses. Their precept may be good but their practice is deplorable.
The vice of double language and
double dealing has today taken a firm hold of every department of our national
and social life. First class precept and tenth-rate example or practice seem to
have become the order of the day. We are feeding ourselves on lies. This is not
how nations are built. In Anderson's Fairy Tales some hypocritical counsellors
of a king promised to have the finest royal robes woven for him. They made the
king strip himself of every piece of clothing and told him that they were
dressing him up in ideal clothes. But these only existed in their empty words.
When the king rode out in his supposed ideal clothes the children shouted.
"The king has no clothes". This is how India is sought to be dressed
up.
Crying down the dowry system and
demanding dowries, crying down caste-ism and nepotism and yet practicing both,
denouncing the evils of drink and indulging in boot-legging, adorning the
office of judicial officers and taking bribes-the list is very long. Such seems
to be the prevalent state of affairs in our unhappy country. One good example
is better than a hundred precepts. An ounce of deed has more weight than tons
of words. The poet Shelley, writing in great mental anguish, has said that
words like justice, mercy, freedom, humanity, etc. are most revolting in the
mouths of self-appointed servants and advisers of humanity. Socrates became a
martyr to the cause of the truth embodied in the saying: Example is better than
precept.
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