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Students told to pursue personality-enhancing hobbies

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, JULY 22. Hobbies, which enhance individuality and humaneness, should be pursued by students passionately, said V. Iraianbu, Commissioner of Disciplinary Proceedings, Madurai.

Interacting with school students during a programme organised by K.A.P. Viswanatham Government Higher Secondary School, and SPARK, a city-based student enrichment forum, the Commissioner advised the students to develop the habit of reading since wisdom could be gained only up to the age of 16. Beyond 16, only knowledge could be accumulated. Knowing the lives of great personalities in various fields, including science, geology and anthropology, students would be able to identify their own talents. Reading also led to self-dependence, he said.

Speaking on `true education,' he said it was different from literacy. Unfortunately, education now meant `violent competition,' when it should mean selfless service. Education should make a person useful to society and the world at large. A person could be called `educated' even without going to school, he said, citing the instances of great scientists such as Isaac Newton. Education brought about a perennial transformation. Life would be bliss for the people who were aware of all their activities.

He observed that the impression of parents (particularly in Tamil Nadu), that initiating their children into the medicine and engineering streams of education would ensure them job security, was flawed. He advised parents not to brainwash their children into having ambitions at a young age but allow them to find their aptitudes. The founder of the Sri Sivananda Balalaya, K.G. Meenakshi, wondered whether the current pattern of education left any scope for children to be creative. The Principal of the school, R. Rajendran, saw the need for changes in the educational system.

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