Student Life

 

The whole world is an institution and we all are its students till our death. Nevertheless, student life is a particular period of our life for acquiring knowledge. The long period of time that we spend in school, college and university is called student life. It is the most important part of our whole life.

Student life is called the seed time of our life. As farmer works hard in the seed time to get good crops, we are to do many things in our student life. We know that there is no rose without thorn, no right without duty and no pleasure without pain. Similarly student life is the time to prepare for the battle of life.

The first and foremost job of a student is to study well. If a student goes to school, attends his classes and prepares his lesson regularly, he is sure to become successful. It any student neglects the valuable time of his life and deceives, he will be hoaxed himself. A long-established proverb says. “Time and tide wait  for none.” In fact, the time of student life should be utilized considering it as an opportunity.

A student should never put his study for the next day. But at the same time, he should not study always. Apart from his textbooks, he should read other books too. He can read the biography or autobiography of great men of the world, entertaining books, books on general knowledge, articles, journals etc. This kind of study will widen a student’s mental horizon and enable to be acquainted with many things of the world.

Only acquiring knowledge is not sufficient for student life. Because a man of profound knowledge also may be deviated from the track of truth. Student life is the most appropriate time to format good character. From the beginning of the student life, a student should form the habit of practising honesty, truthfulness, perseverance, sympathy, fellow-feeling , morality, generosity, and so on. Here parents can play an important role. Because a child get the moral education primarily from his /her parents. A student having moral education is always obedient to his parents, teachers and other seniors. He never mixes with bad boys.

Student life is also the proper time of building body. There is a proverb that says, “An unsound body is not eligible for any kind of worship.” Education is also one kind of worship. To keep out body and mind sound, student should take physical exercise regularly. They can take part in various types of outdoor games like football, cricket, tennis etc. These help to increase students’ integrity, attention and to learn discipline. To keep their mind cheerful, students also can arrange debate, music, concert, science fair, recitation, drama etc.

Students have some duties to his own family, society and to their country. At leisure period, they can help their mother, father doing household chores. If he has any younger brother or sister, he can help him/her to teach lesson. As a social duty, they can come forward to eradicate illiteracy and other curse of the society. They can also play vital role in developing society by making people conscious about malnutrition, sanitation, population problem, early marriage etc. Beside all these, in the time of national crisis, students can stand by the helpless people to give a hand.

Student life is the golden period of life. It builds the basement of our life. So every student should utilize this time to ensure a better career and prosperous future.