Calling for education that promotes values enshrined in the Constitution, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that students cannot isolate themselves from happenings in the world.
Delivering a talk on “Creative Role of Students in India’s Future” at a college function in Gandhinagar, Dr. Singh said: “The youth of today has a bright vision for the future. They want a world free of poverty, unemployment, inequality and intolerance. It is the role of our student population to create and spread awareness of the problems faced by our society.”
“Students are an integral part of the social fabric. They must understand the importance of the relationship between themselves as individuals and society as a whole... the main occupation of students is studying. But that does not give them the liberty to isolate themselves from the happenings in the world surrounding them,” he said in Bapu Gujarat Knowledge Village , an educational campus promoted by Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela.
