The Kural
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கல்வி
Kurals 391–400 of the Thirukkural, in the book of Wealth (பொருட்பால்).
கற்க கசடறக் கற்பவை கற்றபின்
நிற்க அதற்குத் தக.
So learn that you may full and faultless learning gain,
Then in obedience meet to lessons learnt remain.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Learn properly what you need to learn, and then live by what you learned.
Open in the appஎண்ணென்ப ஏனை எழுத்தென்ப இவ்விரண்டும்
கண்ணென்ப வாழும் உயிர்க்கு.
The twain that lore of numbers and of letters give
Are eyes, the wise declare, to all on earth that live.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Letters and numbers are the two eyes of a person.
Open in the appகண்ணுடையர் என்பவர் கற்றோர் முகத்திரண்டு
புண்ணுடையர் கல்லா தவர்.
Men who learning gain have eyes, men say;
Blockheads' faces pairs of sores display.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Educated people truly have eyes; the uneducated just have two sores on their face.
Open in the appஉவப்பத் தலைக்கூடி உள்ளப் பிரிதல்
அனைத்தே புலவர் தொழில்.
You meet with joy, with pleasant thought you part;
Such is the learned scholar's wonderous art!
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Learned people make you glad to meet them and sorry to see them go.
Open in the appஉடையார்முன் இல்லார்போல் ஏக்கற்றுங் கற்றார்
கடையரே கல்லா தவர்.
With soul submiss they stand, as paupers front a rich man's face;
Yet learned men are first; th'unlearned stand in lowest place.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: The uneducated end up begging from the educated, like the poor before the rich.
Open in the appதொட்டனைத் தூறும் மணற்கேணி மாந்தர்க்குக்
கற்றனைத் தூறும் அறிவு.
In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below;
The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Dig deeper in sand and more water flows; learn more and more wisdom flows from you.
Open in the appயாதானும் நாடாமால் ஊராமால் என்னொருவன்
சாந்துணையுங் கல்லாத வாறு.
The learned make each land their own, in every city find a home;
Who, till they die; learn nought, along what weary ways they roam!
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: An educated person is at home in every town and every country; why stay unlearned all your life?
Open in the appஒருமைக்கண் தான்கற்ற கல்வி ஒருவற்கு
எழுமையும் ஏமாப் புடைத்து.
The man who store of learning gains,
In one, through seven worlds, bliss attains.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: What you learn in one life keeps rewarding you through many.
Open in the appதாமின் புறுவது உலகின் புறக்கண்டு
காமுறுவர் கற்றறிந் தார்.
Their joy is joy of all the world, they see; thus more
The learners learn to love their cherished lore.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: The learned always want to learn more, because their learning brings joy to them and to everyone else.
Open in the appகேடில் விழுச்செல்வம் கல்வி யொருவற்கு
மாடல்ல மற்றை யவை.
Learning is excellence of wealth that none destroy;
To man nought else affords reality of joy.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Learning is the only wealth that never runs out; nothing else is really wealth.
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