Prof. N. Rajendran, Vice Chancellor, Alagappa University, has exhorted the teaching fraternity to guide students and help them to identity their potentials and hidden talents.
Addressing the Teacher’s Day celebrations in the university here on Thursday, he said teachers should help students develop their creativity and critical thinking, the vital parameters for inventions and innovations.
Education imparted should be man-making as advocated by Swami Vivekananda, he said adding if a society excelled in culture and tradition, it would be undoubtedly owing to good education.
Paying tributes to former president S. Radhakrishnan, whose birth anniversary is celebrated as Teacher’s Day, he said the late President showcased the greatness of Indian culture and philosophy to the western world by his massive learning and erudition.
Stating that history has shown us how gurus (teachers) have been revered in the Indian society for thousands and thousands of years, he said Teacher’s Day was indeed a day to remember the contribution and services of teachers who were respected by all sections of the society.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof. S. Siva Subramanian, former Vice-Chancellor of Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, appealed to the teachers to shape themselves as student –centric educators. “Teachers should make the classroom an effective platform and forum for students to seek and gain true knowledge,” he said adding this could be possible only when the teachers encouraged students to raise questions and think independently.
In the current digital revolution and consequent knowledge explosion, teachers should provide freedom to the students to learn from different sources.
Prof. Rajendran honoured Prof. S. S. Dhinakaran, Department of Computer Science, with memento and certificate in recognition of his 25 year long service in the university.
