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Need for right type of education

Staff Reporter

"There is something missing in the present-day curriculum"

CONVOCATION: G. Anantharaman, whole-time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Mumbai, congratulating a rank-holder at St. Joseph's College in Tiruchi on Saturday. R. Rajarathinam, Principal, looks on. — Photo: M.Moorthy

TIRUCHI: The future of our country depends on the right type of education, which enables an individual to discharge his duties to the society and country successfully and fruitfully, G. Anantharaman, whole-time member, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Mumbai, said on Saturday.

The moral crisis that we are witnessing today has arisen out of a deficiency in our educational system, which has set a premium on becoming richer and richer to the extent of seeking personal aggrandisement at the cost of the people suffering in abject poverty, he said while delivering the convocation address at the St. Joseph's College here.

There was something missing in the present-day curriculum, which had led to serious imbalances in the "make-up" of an individual. There is a need to identify and address them so that larger issues of the society were dealt with paving the way for an orderly development.

A good education should educate students to behave well, be competent, efficient and alive to their social responsibilities providing them a set of work and life, which could make them instruments of lifting up the mass around them.

It will be the best education if it generates a sense of social responsibility, provides an opportunity to learn and do everything well, and create a true appreciation of excellence, he pointed out.

Colleges, which prepare the students, have a very crucial role to play in shaping them to think in a positive way taking into account the collective well being of the society. They should prepare them for living and dealing with human beings and not to make them psychopaths.

In the present information technology scenario, there was a whole world of opportunities beckoning our bright youngsters who are going to add value to India's growing profile of success.

But, what was needed in this changing environment are the principles of change management that can shape burgeoning youth to the demands of the new social philosophy without giving up the basics in which the Indian society was steeped in namely discipline, character, tolerance and goodwill, he said.

A total of 1,086 students (UG, PG and M.Phil.) from various disciplines received degree certificates at the convocation.

The Principal Rev. Dr. R. Rajarathinam, Rector Rev. Dr. S. Lazar, and heads of departments participated in the function.

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