College students ought to domesticate the behavior of not solely learning onerous to attain extra marks, but in addition ought to give attention to general persona growth, ISRO Chairman designate V Narayanan mentioned right here on Sunday.
ISRO Chairman designate V Narayanan(ANI)
Narayanan, who’s presently the Director of the Liquid Propulsion Methods Centre at Thiruvananthapuram, was right here to supply prayers at a temple in his hometown. He prolonged his gratitude to his well-wishers and kinfolk who had been greeting him on his appointment because the Secretary, Division of House by the Centre final week.
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“Students should first learn how to study. At a young age, a student may hail from different kinds of backgrounds. They may study whatever they want. But what is important is how they study their subjects. At the time of learning, they should also focus on overall personality development,” he advised reporters.
Elaborating, he mentioned, college students ought to undertake two schooling techniques – ‘worth based mostly’ and ‘mental based mostly’.
“Intellectual-based education is what they study in school and getting marks and all. But, value-based education is a study on how to serve this society and how to help others. Both these two education (value based and intellectual based education) should be followed together (by a student). This is my view,” he mentioned.
Narayanan recalled that although he hailed from a humble background, his mother and father offered him the chance to review no matter he aspired to grow to be and so they prolonged all their help to him. “After my marriage, I got immense support from my family and kids. They have been making huge sacrifices and adjusting to me based on my work at the office,” he mentioned and prolonged his gratitude to them on the event.
On working at ISRO, he mentioned the area company was led by ace scientists like Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan, the primary satellite tv for pc director UR Rao and different eminent scientists like Kasturi Rangan, Madhavan Nair, Ok Radha Krishnan and the present Chairman S Somanath.
“I must thank God and the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) for selecting me to lead this great organisation,” he mentioned.
Narayanan mentioned his colleagues at all times work with an angle to make sure that they work for the welfare of the nation and its folks. “We all consider that the organisation (ISRO) and country are above individuals. Everyone here is working very hard,” he remarked.
The rocket scientist referred to PM’s Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient of ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047. “The PM’s vision has been to transform the country into a developed nation by 2047,” Narayanan mentioned, and appealed to college students to review onerous and work for the event of the nation and its folks.
Narayanan was not too long ago appointed because the Secretary, Division of House, succeeding Somanath, whose tenure is anticipated to finish by January 13. He additionally holds the cost of chairman of the Indian House Analysis Organisation.