மன்னாதி மன்னனுக்கு மற்றுமொரு மகுடம்
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பத்மஸ்ரீ முனைவர் ஔவை நடராசன்
அவர்களின் சிறப்புரை
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பகுதி-80
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டாக்டர்.இராதாகிருஷ்ணன் அவர்களின் பல்கலைக்கழக பட்டமளிப்பு உரை (பகுதி-XII)
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I regret to say that the schemes of development adopted by the Centre and the States do not pay adequate attention to this most important of all problems, the education of the youth of the country.
Our whole experiment in democracy will suffer if education is not given top priority. The future leadership of the country will be imperiled if university education is allowed to deteriorate for lack of financial support.
The character is destiny. This maxim applies to individuals as well as to nations. We cannot build rightly with wrong materials. More than your intellectual ability or technical skill, what makes you valuable to society is your devotion to a great cause. We have great natural resources, intelligent men, and women and if in addition, we learn to work together with pride and spirit of dedication in the sacred cause of rebuilding our country, no one can prevent us from achieving our goal. Our future destiny as a nation depends on our spiritual strength rather than upon our material wealth. The goal of perfection cannot be achieved by the weak, not the weak in body, but the weak in spirit, atma-nisthd-janita-viryahinena. The greatest asset of a nation is the spirit of its people. If we break the spirit of a people, we imperil their future; if we develop the power of the spirit, our future will be bright.
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