"....... To my mind, education is the spirit of enquiry,
the ability to keep one's mnd and heart open to beauty and goodness,
indeed all that surrounds us, to be able to think and judge for oneself.
Education should inculcate a life-long habit of learning.
And today, this is all the more necessary because the corpus of knowledge is increasing at a tremendous pace, often making what one has learnt obsolete....... "
Convocation address to the North Eastern Hill University
Shillong, April24,1976
