2nd June 2010
Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
--Columbian Proverb
We are living in a society where the opportunities available to today's youth are very high and enviable. The scope of job, the career growth and the life style which today's youth can access is amazing. The life style and the material comfort were out of the reach of any youth belonging to the middle and even for the upper middle class of yesterday.
However, there is a very critical question in front of the youth: do you want to be value driven or impulse driven? Given the immaturity that goes with the age, the youth enslave themselves to their impulsive commands which results in lack of focus and wrong priorities. Unless and until they are guided and mentored properly, they are not going to make full use of the exciting opportunities that lay in front of them. We need to educate them.
We need to do this for to reasons: one, to help the youths to evolve as full fledged personalities, and two, to ensure that the next generation society is in safe hands. We have to spend at least ten percent of our time for this important society building portfolio. Since this society has done so much to us, we have to give back to the society what we can in reciprocation and this is the best way we can do that.
Think about this point over this weekend and decide how you are going to discharge this social obligation and portfolio.
N C Sridharan
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