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Sunday, Feb 07, 2010
GOOD COUNSEL: V. Kannan, Pro Vice-Chancellor Central University, Hyderabad, giving a degree certificate to a student of Rajah’s Government College in Thiruvaiyaru.
Thanjavur: The purpose of education was to make a person cultured, matured and intelligent, said V. Kannan, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Central University, Hyderabad
Delivering the convocation address at Rajah’s Government College at Thiruvaiyaru near here on Saturday, he said that it had been said in literature and scriptures that education must bestow 16 types of virtues. Besides shaping character, education must help one get employment, earn money, live with self-reliance in foreign countries, make the mind broad by removing narrow attitudes, etc.
“It is said that one who opens a school closes the doors of a prison. It is also said that the purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Collector M.S. Shanmugham, who is also the chairman of the administrative committee of the college, said that education must bring about social awareness among people. Getting a degree was not the end in itself. After that only, one has to plan one’s life and work towards achieving the plan. He called upon the graduates to set a goal in life and work towards achieving it.
The hallmark of an educated person was to care for others. This differentiated him or her from animals. Students must not forget their indebtedness to their parents, institutions they studied, the society and country and repay in abundance to all of them.
Degrees were distributed to 280 graduates and postgraduates. Principal T.N. Aravamudhan and secretary G. Badalam were present.
“Education makes one mature and intelligent”
GOOD COUNSEL: V. Kannan, Pro Vice-Chancellor Central University, Hyderabad, giving a degree certificate to a student of Rajah’s Government College in Thiruvaiyaru.
Thanjavur: The purpose of education was to make a person cultured, matured and intelligent, said V. Kannan, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Central University, Hyderabad
“It is said that one who opens a school closes the doors of a prison. It is also said that the purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Collector M.S. Shanmugham, who is also the chairman of the administrative committee of the college, said that education must bring about social awareness among people. Getting a degree was not the end in itself. After that only, one has to plan one’s life and work towards achieving the plan. He called upon the graduates to set a goal in life and work towards achieving it.
The hallmark of an educated person was to care for others. This differentiated him or her from animals. Students must not forget their indebtedness to their parents, institutions they studied, the society and country and repay in abundance to all of them.
Degrees were distributed to 280 graduates and postgraduates. Principal T.N. Aravamudhan and secretary G. Badalam were present.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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