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dated October 28, 1953: The Value of Studying Humanities

Delivering the convocation address of the Karnataka University in Dharwar on the 26th, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, Vice-President of India, said University education had to help students to move away from the fugitive and trivial, towards permanent and purposeful values. Universities were meant not merely to help pupils to acquire knowledge and skill from library and laboratory or to lay the foundation of success at the bar or in politics. Their real justification lay in building up character, with stress on compassion. Compassion was understood and imbibed by studying humanities, including philosophy and religion. Dr. Radhakrishnan said, "Reading the enduring works of great literature will help us to ease the strain of modern living, and give us a fuller and deeper vision of life and happy human relations."

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