“Integral growth of the person is the need of the hour and teachers should strive to bring it about in the students,” said Most Rev. Dr. Antony Kariyil, the Bishop of Mandya. He was delivering the Convocation Address at St. Philomena’s Autonomous College on Friday at the College Indoor Stadium here.
Referring to the changes that have taken place in post-independent India, quoting the Kothari Commission Report, he said, “there is one instrument and one instrument alone — EDUCATION — that can bring about a large scale change in the country. Quoting from M.N. Srinivas and social scientist Talcott Parsons, he delineated the pattern variables which impel people to make choices in dichotomous situation. The choice makes a difference. Growth is essential, not physical growth alone, but also in spiritual, psychological, aesthetic, emotional fields. He lauded St. Philomena’s College which for the last 71 years has been striving for the integral growth of those who pass through its portals.
