Prepare students for challenges of life

Updated on: Monday, January 30, 2012

Union Minister for Shipping and Ports G.K. Vasan has urged educational institutions to play a key role in preparing adolescents for confronting the challenges of life, since “it is here that their attitudes are to be fine-tuned so that their transformation to adulthood is smooth.” Delivering the 84 Graduation Day address at Loyola College here on Saturday, he quoted Swami Vivekananda to emphasise the importance of character.

“We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one's own feet. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.”

Pointing out that the search for knowledge in deeply ingrained in the Indian ethos, he said the quest for knowledge is critical for understanding the self, society and also the universe.

He explained how the National Education Policy, 1986, chose to chart an ambitious course for higher education as it envisaged that it should become “dynamic as never before, constantly entering unchartered areas.”

Mr. Vasan was confident that education could play a positive role in reducing social disparities as well.

He outlined the phenomenal strides made in higher education since Independence, and pointed out that enrolment of women students was as much as 41.6 per cent of the total enrolment.

Later, he handed over the certificates to the graduands.

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