Be it on the basis of development of a particular zone, or be it with a view to cause betterment to all, but the centres of education, schools, colleges and universities should exist for making the lives of students ideal and exemplary. It is for the most excellent educational system, management and in order to get good education from the most capable teachers that the students come to these places automatically like swarms of bees.
It may be institutions or centres of education, but their purpose should be to fill the minds of students with discipline and dutifulness and their codes of conduct should be based on truth; no personal convenience should be taken into consideration.
Keeping in view the truth of the age, the students should be moulded in such a manner that they, negating the darkness of negative thoughts in the brilliant light of dutifulness, should be able to see the real aim and real path of development in their lives.
The responsibility of the educational institutions becomes even greater when it comes to imparting education at the graduation level. When a student comes to a college or university in order to earn education with a new kind of ambition, with a new kind of zeal and enthusiasm, he automatically gets connected to every source of management of the institution; especially with the faculties of related subjects, with the lecturers, professors, heads of departments and the principal etc, and also with the science laboratories and libraries. And among these the libraries are expected to be best organized, so that the students may consult the required books, without any difficulty, just by going through the catalogues. For B.Sc. in science the students are required to be provided with reference books and original books written by famous teachers, authors and reviewers. And it is the duty of a well-organized college or university to make available latest books to students.
There should be separate arrangements for the faculties of Arts, Commerce and Science and, in accordance with these, the stocks of books should also be kept separately in libraries so that the students do not have to waste their time searching for books of their requirement.
The libraries are, in a way, like a boon to professors, lecturers and students. The students of science are generally lost in their own worlds of formulae and ‘plus-minus’ and equations of mathematics. And under these circumstances, when a student begins to experience monotony in his life, he takes shelter in those books which fill his mind with new kind of energy and enable him to allow the seeds of constructive thoughts to sprout in his mind.
In a way a student of science needs to live in a place around which the atmosphere is fresh and possesses inspirational values, so that he is able to maintain his mental equilibrium. The very first sight of an ideal university casts a spell of attraction on the minds of the students.
The targets of science students, coming to such universities, are different from the targets of the students of Arts and Commerce faculties. If their tendency of becoming scientists is watched carefully and honestly, a message of tremendous awakening can be seen in their feeling of revolt. This is for the simple reason that they do not believe in conservativeness and superstitions; they rather put everything to tests, investigate things and bring before the society the real truth. Thus, it becomes very necessary for them to get all the things of their requirement and proper libraries in their educational institutions. And along with these they need affection and refreshing atmosphere, too.
Due to the invaluable and precious moments of inspiration and favourable atmosphere there, Abdul Kalam had—during his B.Sc. education at the St. Joseph’s college in Tiruchchirappalli, a college which embraced most of the above specialities and superlatives and which became synonymous with excellence and good reputation—sprouted miraculous dimensions of consciousness in him.
The result of this was that Abdul Kalam began enjoying the ambience and the freshness of atmosphere around him and he began composing poems and expressing his tender feelings at times when he received inspirations from above.
Apart from earning merits as a science student, he also had a divine gift of having knowledge of Sanskrit and Arabic languages which proved to be a great boon in building his future life.