School students should try and expand their horizons by going beyond classrooms and textbooks, according to Chief Secretary Nalini Netto.
Interacting with participants in the ‘Kerala Model United Nations (KMUN),’ organised by the St. Thomas Central School in the city on Saturday, the Chief Secretary said that students must try to get inputs from areas far beyond textbooks to develop their personalities.
Media outlets
Citing the proliferation of media outlets in the digital age, she said that people were now being flooded with information making it difficult for a person to get authentic information.
Right info
“We need to find the right information that we require,” she said.
She also reminded the participants that sometimes the art of debating was all about “learning to speak what you don’t believe in.”
Welcoming the gathering, school principal Sebastain T. Jospeph said that the KMUN had been conceived as a debating platform where students could showcase their speaking skills and learn the art of diplomacy well enough.
Marthoma Church Educational Society secretary Rajeev Varghese and the KMUN secretary Arjun Nair spoke on the occasion.
