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‘Value-based education need of the hour’

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NHRC chief showers encomiums on former V-C Goplalakrishna Reddy

Education should inform the students about the ideals of life, he says
Plea to provide quality education to younger generation

VISAKHAPATNAM: Former Chief Justice of India and National Human Rights Commission Chairperson Justice S. Rajendra Babu stressed the need for providing more value based education to the new generation as the erosion of values and characters in society is very much disturbing.

Delivering the first endowment lecture on Andhra University former Vice-Chancellor late Maddi Gopalakrishna Reddy here, he said the values help a man evaluate himself and put him into action but yet, one could often see educated people whose values were never put into action.

“The values can never be tested through examinations, perhaps the best of essays on ‘truthfulness’ could be written by the biggest liar in the class,” he remarked.

He quoted poet T.S. Eliot to state that it was only when information, knowledge and wisdom were put together to set the values of life, the purpose of education would be achieved.

Any value ethics focussed on human development process had to concentrate on purifying the emotions and after that focus on intellectual clarity.

“Unless the emotions are refined, no sustainable value education is possible.”

Education should inform the students about the ideals of life and country’s social ethos to influence them.

It should educate them the ideals of life of great personalities who had put in to practice the same against difficult odds; and it should create an ethos which would inspire and stimulate the students. He quoted a Chinese proverb on education that said: “education makes a good man a better and a bad man worse.”

Mr. Justice Babu went on highlighting the need for providing quality education to the younger generation who would be the architects of the future by stating that one should keep in mind that individuals were not mere building blocks but builders of society.

Education in India should prepare a man to face life, if not to eke out a career for himself. The purpose of education should be, to prepare men who were well informed, knowledgeable, wise and understand the values of life.

The NHRC Chairperson showered encomiums on Gopalakrishna Reddy, saying he had “ocean-deep knowledge.”

Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education Chairman K.C. Reddy said Gopalakrishna Reddy was an institution and he had encouraged and motivated a number of people in the academic arena.

AU Vice-Chancellor L. Venugopal Reddy said the varsity witnessed a tremendous growth when Gopalakrishna Reddy was the V-C.

Students and academicians enjoyed his teaching skills and adopted him as a role model.

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