Education and Family
Guru Gobind Singh Ji was born to Guru Tegh Bahadur, the Ninth Sikh Guru, and Mata Gujri Ji in Patna. He was born while his father was on a tour of the neighbouring state of Assam, spreading God's word.There is a famous saying that a ruler was destined to be born in a land where, intelligent and strong he would lead the Sikhs as a brave warrior and so it was that he was born by the side of the Holy Ganges (present day Patna Sahib) where he learned Persian and Sanskrit when he was a child and was also trained to become a warrior.
Guru Gobind Singh married and had four children. He was married to Mata Jito/Sundari, they had four sons together Sahibzada Ajit Singh, Zorawar Singh, Jujhar Singh and Fateh Singh.
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Famous quotes containing the words education and, education and/or family:
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the “blocking” techniques, the outright prohibitions, the “no’s” and go heavy on “substitution” techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)
“Every family has one passage of scripture they stumble over.”
—Chinese proverb.