Points: Students role as teachers of the masses — Voluntary projects — Social service as self-education.
In a country Like India where a large number of people are poor and illiterate, students have a special duty to the masses. Students should spend some vacations among the masses. They should teach them orally the principles of rural banking, the uses of electricity and fertilizer, even history, geography and cultural history of the country.
There are many things which can be done without depending on the Government. Small roads can be constructed and repaired, wells may be dug, and tanks may be cleaned. A sense of cleanliness, sanitation, hygiene, mutual help and civic duties may be inculcated. Superstitions and corruptions can be eradicated only by changing the outlook of the people.
Students should go to the slums and backward villages and point out why there are epidemics in those areas. They should also organize cultural functions for the poor. Poverty is depressing but drudgery is killing. We should know that a student’s education is incomplete if he is not involved actively in social services. A student belongs to the society and has a duty towards it. Social service gives him the necessary training for growing up into a responsible citizen. Social service is not a fashionable cliche, it should be an integral part of education.
In a country Like India where a large number of people are poor and illiterate, students have a special duty to the masses. Students should spend some vacations among the masses. They should teach them orally the principles of rural banking, the uses of electricity and fertilizer, even history, geography and cultural history of the country.
There are many things which can be done without depending on the Government. Small roads can be constructed and repaired, wells may be dug, and tanks may be cleaned. A sense of cleanliness, sanitation, hygiene, mutual help and civic duties may be inculcated. Superstitions and corruptions can be eradicated only by changing the outlook of the people.
Students should go to the slums and backward villages and point out why there are epidemics in those areas. They should also organize cultural functions for the poor. Poverty is depressing but drudgery is killing. We should know that a student’s education is incomplete if he is not involved actively in social services. A student belongs to the society and has a duty towards it. Social service gives him the necessary training for growing up into a responsible citizen. Social service is not a fashionable cliche, it should be an integral part of education.
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