The 17th national jamboree of scouts and guides at Adakanahalli in Nanjangud near here has also attracted the International Youth Federation’s (IYF) leadership and volunteers from different parts of the world to create awareness about ‘mind education and character education’.
Speaking to The Hindu on the sidelines of the National Education Leaders’ Meet at the jamboree on Monday, general secretary of IYF Education Kim Jae Hong said mind education teaches humans to have the right mindset. “For a person to be successful, she or he needs the right mindset,” he said.
Mr. Kim, who also delivered the ‘mind lecture’ sessions at the meet, said their mind education handholds the youth through their challenges and helps them become masters of their desires so that they can exercise control over any wayward tendencies. He also cited the case of a gangster from Georgia in the U.S., who was influenced by mind education and became their volunteer.
Dayana Lonappan, Director of Board of Education, IYF, Karnataka, said the meet was being held at the jamboree to discuss the need for incorporation of character education into contemporary curriculum and also to introduce the concept of mind education, which has been described as “recent science”.
“I have taken a year’s break to volunteer for IYF. I am in Bengaluru for the last five months and came here to assist IYF in organising the event,” said twenty-one-year-old Kamonchanok Kertphol, who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in accounting from a university in Bangkok. She and biotechnology student Luksamee Jarupisuthwong from Bangkok are among the eight volunteers from Thailand, who were at the jamboree. As part of their volunteering, Ms. Kamonchanok said they are not supposed to be carrying any money with them to control their desires. “Our food and accommodation is taken care of by the organisation,” she said.
