The student life is a period of training for the practical duties of manhood. It is the seed time of one’s life.

An ideal student makes the best use of student life. His aim is not confined to studies and passing of university examination only. For him they are only secondary. He is courteous to one and all. He cultivates good manners and habits.

He is industrious, honest and sympathetic. He possesses a keen sense of duty and responsibility. He is regular and punctual. He never cherishes an evil thought. He is obedient to his teachers and elders. He is guided by them. He is not wayward. He shuns bad company. He is diligent. Diligence is a great virtue. Even genius is 10 per cent inspiration and 90 per cent Perspiration.

An ideal student acts as the messenger of peace and reconciliation between one community and another. He is free from communalism. He preaches love and unity. He aims at national prosperity. He possesses the power of dispassionate and reasonable thinking. He is a great lover of truth. He has a thirst for knowledge and learning.

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He gathers knowledge from every possible source as a bee flits from flower to flower and gathers honey. He attains exactness of mind is consistent in action. Dignity, discipline, self-control, constructive organization and self-restraint are his watchwords. He is virtuous and mentally and bodily firm and strong. He acts like a brave and fearless soldier in a national cause. He is tolerant and free from prejudices narrow-mindedness and selfish motive.

In his holidays and leisure hours, he educates his illiterate brethren He is the future hope of the country. He is the backbone of the nation He thinks it his sacred duty to improve the social, cultural and economic life of the country.

He rushes in where others fear to tread. He is the champion of every human right and the avenger of every human wrong. He is optimistic. Nothing can disappoint him. Nothing can daunt him. He thinks, decides and dashes. He is self assertive. He presses on and on to attain perfection, getting over all the difficulties in his way. ‘Excelsior’ is his motto in life.