STUDENTS AND SOCIAL SERVICE (PART-2)

Bangladesh is an agricultural country. Her prosperity depends on agriculture. But the farmers of our country are illiterate. They have no knowledge about scientific method of cultivation. In this ease students can teach the illiterate farmers.

Bangladesh is an over populated country. Most of the villages of our country are illiterate. They are also superstitious. They have no knowledge about family planning. They are unwilling to accept family planning. In this regard students can render a good social service. They can explain to the illiterate village people the need for adopting family planning.

During natural calamities students can render better services. During floods and cyclones and famine students stand by the affected people. Students beg money from the rich, raise funds, rescue people, feed the hungry, nurse the sick and cloth the naked, During epidemics medical students and other students may serve the sick with proper food, cloth, medicine and other necessary things.

Students are the servants of society. They are the makers of society. They are the soldiers of social peace. They should serve the society without any selfish motive.

STUDENTS AND SOCIAL SERVICE (PART-1)

Duty towards God, duty towards parents and duty towards mankind. Student are born to read, to study books to prepare themselves for examination. The hue and cry of the world and heat and dust of life generally do not move them. But there are occasions in a nation s life when normal duties suspend and normal life does not function. Then the services of students are essential. Students are not separated/ isolated from society. They are also social beings like other classes of people. They enjoy the same social benefits, rights and privileges. There is no rose without a thorn and no right without duties. No wonder then that student have certain duties to the society in which they live in.

Ours is an undeveloped country. So the students in our country have many things to do for the welfare and good of the country. They can render free services in different spheres of our national life. Most of the people of our country are illiterate. The student can open night school and teach the illiterate people. They can remove illiteracy from our country. During the vacation they can go to villages and teach the rural folk.

Students’ services are necessary in the field of our national health. They can play an important role. Female students can teach the uneducated woman how to keep their houses neat and clean how to bring up children and look after their health. The village people and the people living in the slums from many diseases. They have no knowledge about health and environment. The students can teach them about the basic rules of health and environment.

STUDENT AND POLITICS

 One of the most widely-discussed controversies of the day is whether students should take part in politics or not. The root cause this extraordinary state of things lies in the historical background of our struggle for freedom. Both in Bangladesh and India, students inherited a tradition of political activity of having borne the brunt of this sub-continents fight for independence.

Those who favour the participation of students in politics base their stand mainly on four arguments. Firstly, students of to-day being the citizens of tomorrow, it is necessary to give them some training in politics alongside their pursuit of study. This would go to make their education realistic and practical. Secondly, students have both a duty and a right to see that the country is governed well. Thirdly, students being the must selfless section of the population, their participation in politics ensure a better ensures a better service of national interests. It is they alone who can act as the unfailing friend of the people against corrupt and selfish politicians who otherwise are apt to realize their own end at the expense of the nation. Taking all these factors into consideration, they argue that students should be encouraged to take interest in politics.

Those who disfavour student-politics advance two arguments in the main. Firstly, politics being serious and exciting occupation is antithetic to the pursuit of study which requires coolness of mind. The two can never be done together without the former gradually absorbing the latter entirely. Secondly, to do politics in modern society, faced with complex national and international problems, is a hard job and calls for enough of experience and sagacity, tolerance and patience. It needs cool judgment, dispassionate approach to problems and tactful handing of complicated situations. All these and other virtues that make a true politician came with age and are hardly to be found in the youth, much less teen-aged students.

Both the views are vitiated by extremism. While there is not denial that the participation of students in politics may bear some to them and the society, the possibility of ultimate loss to both cannot be overlooked. It is also important to note that students may hardly remain impartial enough to check corrupt politicians and protect popular interests. More often then not, they have been found to be swept off by the tide off by the tide of catchy slogans raised by political parties. In that case, they only strengthen the hands of politicians for exploiting the masses with greater success.   

STUDENT LIFE

Student life is a period of preparation for all the problems that face the individual and the community. It is a period when a man fills his mind with the fuel of ideas to set sail on the voyage of life. It is rightly called the seed time of human life. 

There is no rose without thorn, on rights without duties and no pleasures without pains. No wonder then that a student has certain duties to perform. He has to discharge duties to own self, to his parents, to his family, to his country, to the wide world and what is more to God-

The first and foremost duty of a student is to acquire knowledge. But he must not confine himself to the prescribed books only. He must read newspapers, magazines, novels, dramas and poetry during his leisure. This kind will wide widen their mental horizon and enable them to be acquainted with many thing of the world.

A student must take care of his health because sound mind lives in a sound body. Good health is the key to success. In order enjoy a good health a student must observe the rules of health.

A student can go on excursion and picnic with his fellow students. All these things will bear good effect on him. They will drive his monotony. Excursion will increase his knowledge. His mental outlook will be broad.

School and college arrange debate, discussion, seminars and symposium. A student can take part in all these things and widen his knowledge. As a result he may be something great in future. A student can render many social and benevolent activities. He can teach the unlettered the importance of family planning, malnutrition, sanitation, population explosion etc. During the time of natural calamities he can distribute food, medicine pure drinking water and cloths to the victim. These activities enable a student to gain practical training in humanitarian work.