April 11, 2018: The Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Deb Verma today called upon the teachers community to inculcate among the students importance of ‘values’.
He was delivering a lecture in the Tripura University on the occasion of Valedictory function of the one month long teachers’ training programme conducted by the Faculty Development Centre under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers Training project launched by the Government of India.
“Teachers’ role is not supposed to be limited to disseminating information to the students alone. They have to impart knowledge. And there is a difference between information and knowledge. Information can be gleaned from various sources –right from google, wikipedia to various other sources. But it is only the Teacher who can impart knowledge and through him the students develop values that would guide him or her in future life”, said the Deputy Chief Minister who was the Chief Guest of the programme.
“Information may change in all time to come but values will remain the same”, he said adding that teachers should have the role of “transformer – a friend, philosopher and guide”.
The Deputy Chief Minister said, “in our ancient India our Gurus used to not only pass on knowledge but also helped their students grow up with values”.
“There is no suitable expression in English for our Indian expression “Guru”- who occupies a divine position in Indian civilization and academic environment”, he pointed out.
He expressed great satisfaction that nowadays many great personalities of the country who contributed to making the nation like Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Pandit DeenDayal Upadhyaya, Dr Shyamaprasad Mukherjee were being recognized.
Deb Verma also referred to Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya’s contribution to the educational field of the country and informed the gathering about Panditji’s close relations with Tripura Kings as ‘Advisor’. The Deputy Chief Minister exhorted the teachers to follow the ideals of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and live up to the expectation of the changing India.
Prof Anajan Kumar Ghosh, the Vice Chancellor of the Tripura University in his speech opined that the educational system, specially the method of imparting knowledge in the country needed to be changed to keep a pace with the upcoming generation’s attitude, aspirations and potential.
“Our educational system has become obsolete. It was 200 years old system and now the shortcomings are showing. This is an age of internet, social media etc. Students are now well versed with the new inventions. Quite naturally it is time that knowledge imparting methods are given a re-look and adequately reviewed”, said Prof Ghosh.
The MLA Ramprasad Paul in his speech as Guest of Honour dwelt on the ancient tradition of Guru-Sishya Parampara and called for proper training of the teachers so as to make them adequately skilled.
“Education enlightens a man. And proper education can be given by a dedicated and committed teacher”, said Paul.
Sanit Debroy, Registrar of the Tripura University in his welcome speech briefly dwelt on the life of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya who built the Asia’s biggest university of that time Benaras Hindu University as well as contributed to the world of journalism and law.
Prof B C Tripathi, Coordinator of the FDC gave the vote of thanks. The programme was attended by Tripura University faculty, students, officers, non-teaching staff.
