World Students’ Day (October 15) is honour studentship and learnership. Across the globe learning potential is required to be supported appropriately for helping students to shape their own and societal future.
The observation is marked on A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's birthday, 15 October, as proclaimed by the United Nations in 2010.
Inset visual: Here is my haiku on learnership which was published in a news portal now inaccessible.
According to the 'Days of the Year' website, "World Students’ Day is a celebration of multiculturalism, diversity and cooperation among students across the globe." The website adds, "Students display and celebrate their acts of social responsibility and have gatherings on campus to showcase the causes they volunteer for, take part in gleeful competitions, indulge in student food, gossip about the student unions and complain about their student fees. Although decidedly not as elevated or as relevant to mankind as the activities of the forefathers of World Students’ Day, these gatherings attract a good deal of involvement, donations and attention for organisations and charities."
The website urges school teachers, university professors, and other educational functionaries work to use this day to make students feel special, and also look for ways to encourage them to be the best that they can be.
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