Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (NR)  
 
Udupi, Dec 29: A UGC sponsored five- day national workshop on `Ethics and Human Values in Education’ was organized by the MGM College here on Friday, Dec 28.
Delivering the keynote speech, senior educationist Prof Raja said that the preamble of our Constitution is a best piece of ethical education for the teachers to follow.

According to him a teacher must be a democrat and at the same time secular. At no point of time they should indulge in social or economic injustice. They should be the protectors of freedom of expression of their students,’’ he declared.

The professor exhorted the teachers to retrospect as to whether they have maintained sense of creativity, studious, dedicated to the cause of knowledge or do they have the qualification to be called `Guru’.

In his lecture the Dharmadhikari of Sri Kshethra Dharmasthala D Veerendra Heggade lamented the fact that during the last 30-40 years, parents had failed in their efforts to influence their children.
 
In his opinion teachers have very a tough job of shaping the future of their students, with ethical values. He added "whenever students were allowed to serve the society, they have shown their human face.’’
 
 K K Pai registrar of the academy of general education presided over the programme. Also on the occasion director of college education prof K V Kodandaramaiah gave his inputs.