New avenues: Students at the exhibition in Madurai.
MADURAI: The District Collector, S. S. Jawahar, has urged school students not to ape others while choosing courses at the higher secondary and college levels.
Mr. Jawahar was addressing students from various schools at the inauguration of a three-day exhibition on higher education, organised by the Lady Doak College here on Thursday.
He pointed out that many students were not getting proper guidance in making the right choice and hence they thought that only engineering and medicine were the best options available.
He lamented that there was a trend among students to look down upon arts and humanities courses without understanding the potential they have.
“Many outstanding personalities are not engineers or doctors. They are from pure sciences that have vast scope and have relevance to day-to-day life.
So, get the right guidance after tenth standard based on your personal interest in a subject and do not ape others. Simultaneously, pick up soft skills/ tips for personality development,” the Collector told students.
He also asked parents not to impose a course on children when he or she was not interested since it would not give any job satisfaction to youngsters even though they earned substantial salaries. The Collector lauded Lady Doak College for organising an exclusive exhibition to showcase the relevance and utility of higher education to students at school level itself.
Nirmala Jeyaraj, Principal, said that the exhibition, titled ‘Cognizance-2007,’ was an event organised as part of the institution’s diamond jubilee celebrations to enlighten school children about the opportunities and courses.
Fifteen departments have put up stalls, models and charts at the exhibition.
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