Speech at Bhavan's School

Annual day- Bharathiya vidya Bhavan Kozhikode

29/01/2011

Esteemed guests, teachers, parents and my dear students

I am very happy to be here with you today to join you for your annual day celebrations. I am delighted to be invited and am thankful to all of you.

Bharathiya vidya bhavan is a prestigious institution in calicut and from the very beginning encouraging reports are coming out and it definitely is a good news for us in Calicut.

I am not a person to talk on education. You have very good teachers and educators here in this school. Many parents may also be great teachers. But looking at medical schools and education we have a manthra by short form “ASK”. That is attitude, Skill and knowledge. Three pillars of professional education. This can be applied here also. Most important thing is attitude. The right attitude is the one which decide your fate. Many a time we see children being forced to a stream against their wish. In that case we can never expect a positive attitude from the student. Without a positive attitude he cannot acquire knowledge and skill.

I was reminded of the speech of great APJ abdul kalam. He was pointing to three virtues to students. They are dream, vision and mission. Dream is one’s imagination of some thing. Vision is the clear picture of what he dreamt or the complete design and mission is the events by which he materializes the vision. Dear students every one of you should dream of bigger things as you grow you should develop or work out the vision and execute the mission. I am sure that among you there are great doctors, engineers, teachers and management experts. Don’t blindly follow others and try to imitate your friends. Work for your own dream.

I represent one of the best medical colleges in the country. We teach 200 students for MBBS apart from Nursing, Pharmacy graduates. I expect a large number of students from Bhavans to get admission in my college. Why I say this is that you students are bright and disciplined and we need students like you.

There are problems in the campus especially professional college campus. Few students, very view, are driven by external forces. These forces are political or religious and students become puppets in their hands. Why do students do this? Probably these few students are those who cannot adjust to the surrounding, who are finding it difficult to match with their peers. So naturally they are attracted to unnatural ways and means to become popular or at least to show others that they are in the lime light. Those students are exploited by certain groups. I request you to abstain from such forces. For that you should have definite vision and definite plan. I am sure that you students from this school will be able to lead an example for all students of this district.

Wish you good luck