Educational institutions
We have become a rough and rude people. There is impoliteness, harshness, violence and brutality everywhere. A look at our daily life or at any newspaper on any day will confirm this. If we are satisfied with the way we are, there is nothing more to say about it. However, if we feel that we need and want to change our ways, we have to think of the means of bringing about the change. I think our education can and must play a crucial role in this matter.
There was a time when family and community exerted the most powerful influence on shaping the character of every growing generation and inculcated with confidence the values and norms by which it was supposed to live. That time is no more. Strong forces of disintegration have played havoc on family and community and robbed them of their confidence and their power and influence over their members. In this confusing situation the only other place we have that can be reasonably expected to perform this crucial function is our educational institutions. Fostering good manners and smoothing the rough edges in the character of students have to be one of their major goals. The work should begin at the earliest level and continue up to the highest level. There can be no let up in this.
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