Coimbatore, October 15: The educational system instead of going by the text book will have to be promoted by creative interactive self-learning with the focus on value and qualities, M Karpaga Vinqayagam, Chairman, Apellate Tribunal for Electricity, Petrolum and Natural Gas, Delhi, said today.
In his address at the 21st convocation of Avanashilingam University for Women here, he said educational institutions should teach not only knowledge but the wisdom as to how to look at the world and how to face the challenges in the life.
Education was not a mere book learning or mere acquisition of knowlege, but one that should make a person stand on his or her legs and to face the life, he said.
Stating that the intellectual education influenced only the head but the value-based education influenced the heart, he said the true education was training both the head and the heart by giving both intellectual as well as value based education, he said.
He advised students that the best aim in their lives should be to do great service for the society with selfless motive.
—Agencies