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School toppers honoured

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Mani HSS hailed for adhering to traditional values

REWARDING EXCELLENCE: M. Vijay Pandian, a student of Mani Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore, receiving the certificate and cash award from the Collector, S. Kosalaraman, for scoring the highest marks in the school in the Plus Two examinations, at t he Golden Jubilee celebrations organised in the institution on Friday. (From right) D. Jagannathan, Director of Government Examinations, S. Pathy, president, School Committee, J. Umamaheswari, Director of Matriculation Schools and P. R. Rajagopalan, secretary, look on. Photo: S. Siva Saravanan

COIMBATORE: "I want to become an engineer from IIT," said S. Vidhyadhar, a student of Mani High Secondary School. He had scored the first position in the SSLC examinations this year, and was one of the three students to be recognised for achieving top honours for the school as it celebrated the Golden Jubilee School Day function on Friday.

The others D. Vigneshwaran, who had come second in SSLC in the school and M. Vijaya Pandian, who had topped the school in Plus Two also dream of joining the engineering stream.

Questions to ponder

But are schools just machines for churning out manpower for the industry?

Are schools only creating doctors or engineers or are they moulding the character of individuals, so that the students who pass out are patriotic, disciplined and humane?

These are the questions D. Jagannathan, Director of Government Examinations, Chennai exhorted teachers, parents and students to ask themselves.

Delivering the keynote address at the function, he said: "With growing competition and students focussed only certain disciplines, are schools just becoming coaching centres or are they moulding the character and nurturing idealism in students?"

He said while the 1950s witnessed the growth of educational institutions, universities and schools, some of which were in partnership with the Government, a new genre of self-financing institutions had come up now.

He said, "While these schools have autonomy and are innovative, they tend to get very aggressive at times, becoming just education coaching centres."

He appreciated Mani HSS (which was started in 1954 by Kuppuswamy Charity Trust) for adhering to traditional values and encouraging all around development of students.

He said: "This school stands among the few that have not fallen prey to the temptation of becoming a coaching centre."

J. Umamaheswari, Director of Matriculation Schools, Chennai, said, "Education is the only panacea for social evils."

It was also an occasion to honour the four former headmasters of the school.

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