Mangalore: Three-day Youth Festival of Teachers Training Students Inaugurated at Sahyadri College
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Daijiworld Media Network- Mangalore (RS)
Mangalore, Dec 4: A three-day district level youth festival, ‘Samvatha 2009-10’, being jointly organized by the department of public instruction, state education department, and department of state educational research and training (DSERT), Bangalore, National Service Scheme(NSS) and Sahyadri Teachers’ Training Institute, was inaugurated on Friday December 4, at Sahyadri college campus near here, by Prabhulinga Kavalakatti, assistant commissioner of Mangalore division.
Speaking on the occasion, Prabhulinga Kavalakatti advised the teachers to get fully involved in moulding their students into perfect citizens by educating them for their overall development. Education should also equip them with the ability and skills to face future challenges, by teaching them about the real life situations, along with the knowledge of books. The day-to-day life is quite different from the knowledge that we get from reading books, he added.
Chief guest, Dr K Chinnappa Gowda, registrar of Mangalore University, said that teaching is a noble profession, where both teaching and the learning processes are involved. The students, who will become teachers in future, need to understand about the high values of this profession, and the aim of the teachers to hone their students into perfect personalities, by equipping them with the potential to make their teachers proud, he added.
Manjunath Bhandary, president of Bhandary Foundation, said that the students of teachers training courses have the responsibility of preparing their students into law-abiding, patriotic and disciplined citizens. He also said that the students need to learn from the lives of great personalities, by accepting these leaders as their role models, by observing them, besides reading something about these personalities.
He added that the programme has been arranged for the teachers to be able to exhibit their multi-dimensional talents with respect to the folklore and cultural values.
The youth festival, - ‘Samvatha 2009-10’, sponsored by Bhandary Eduaction Foundation, will focus on cultural and sports events with the participation of 15 teachers training institutes under the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET).
Philomena Lobo, principal and deputy director of the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), presided over the function. Dr D L Prabhakar, principal of Sahyadri Engineering College, and Prasanna Bhandary, secretary of Bhandary Foundation, were also present.
Lavanya, principal of Sahyadri Teachers Training Institute, welcomed. NSS coordinator of the Institute, Anith Kumar, proposed vote of thanks. Santhosh Kumar, teaching faculty of the Institute, was the master of ceremony.