There is a story about a rich farmer who had a beautiful garden. The garden was so attractive, except for one blemish, it had a huge boulder in the middle of the garden. The people admired the garden except for the huge rock in the center. The gardener grew weary of this big, unattractive stone in the center of the garden, so he decided to do something about it.
He went to work on it with hammer and chisel. He chipped away the huge stone until it became a beautiful stone elephant. When he finished, it was gorgeous and surprising. The neighbours rushed in to ask, “How did you ever carve such a marvelous likeness of an elephant?”
The farmer answered them, “I just chipped away everything that did not look like an elephant!”
A simple story yet has a profound implication in our life. Someone has rightly said, “Education has a transformative power.” Education brings about transformation in a person’s life. It helps one to see deep within and forms one into a great leader and a good human being with a good heart and mind.