Essays Visit to The Radio Station, Leadership & Student Unrest
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A Visit to The Radio Station
In one’s life span a person has opportunity to visit many places and some of them leave a lasting impression. A visit to the radio station is always memorable. It is an important place which one cannot visit whenever one likes.
There are so many restrictions in entering the station. There is a procedure for visiting the place. Luckily, I had a chance to go to the Pakistan Radio Station, Lahore, recently.
I accompanied my friend early in the morning. We reached the radio station at half past eight. It is a big and beautiful building, neat and attractive. It has a large reception hall. One can hardly keep account of the rooms.
There are many signboards and name plates displaying the names of the sections and their officers. For the first time I saw the announcer’s room. It is sound proof. No sound of any kind can enter it.
I also saw the recording room where a programme was being recorded. I also visited the drama section. The rehearsal of play was going on there. It was a very interesting experience to see the actors working hard to catch and convey the spirit of the play.
Next, we went to the technical section which keeps everything going over the air. Engineers were busy there, looking after numerous machines. They make different channels work. The transmitters work faultlessly because of these people.
After having a round of these sections we visited the place where we were to watch the programme. It was a spacious room with a small platform. The artistes were occupying the platform while the rest of the room was occupied by the audience.
Soon we heard the voice of the announcer who announced that the programme was going to start. Soon the programme was on. It was a humorous skit, packed with fun and laughter. The show lasted for fifteen minutes. It was a highly enjoyable programme. The memory of the day is still fresh in my mind.
Leadership
It is said some are born great, some become great and to some greatness is thrust upon. We see in every society, in every community, in every group of people, there is bound to be someone who emerges above others and who acts as a guide or a lead.
The majority of people in this world are to be led and to be shown the path they ought to tread. But a few are off from the rest and they can rule over the rest. It is true that leaders are born, no doubt, but training may also play a vital role in developing qualities of leadership.
Florence Nightingale was a born leader whom nothing could prevent from giving a lead to womankind and urging them to enter the noble profession of nursing. No formal training is needed for such gifted persons.
But some sort of training is certainly very useful in the case of others who have in them innate qualities of leadership. If left to themselves, they would not probably emerge as leaders. This training is given to them during their student career, the most suitable period for the development of qualities of leadership.
This training begins when a student is appointed the monitor of his class. The teacher who picks out a student for monitor-ship finds in the boy a certain amount of courage and initiative. The student gets a certain amount of responsibility.
In the discharge of his duties as a monitor, his innate courage and spirit of initiative find scope for expression and development. Courage and spirit of enterprise are among the essential qualities of leadership.
One of the best means of developing qualities of leadership among young men and women is to involve themselves in games. Sports inculcate among the youth not only a sense of fair play but also such qualities as mutual cooperativeness or team spirit, endurance, and capacity to remain undaunted in the face of defeat.
Extra-curricular activities in schools and colleges also provide opportunities to students to receive training in leader ship. Every college has a number of societies and associations for debating, for organizing tours, outings, excursions, and various other activities.
The office-bearers of these societies and associations are leaders though in limited spheres. Nevertheless they get excellent training in enforcing discipline, in organizing functions, in taking initiative and showing their spirit of enterprise.
They also get training in public speaking The ability to address audience is one of the most essential qualities of a leader in any field of life-political, social, military etc. Elections to college unions are other means of training leaders.
The presidents and secretaries of college unions get many opportunities of developing their organizational ability. They are the elected leaders of students in their colleges and they have a great hold over students.
Yet another means of providing training in leadership is N.C.C. Here, again, those who have certain innate qualities of leadership like flair for adventure, initiative and stamina come into prominence and are generally given the ranks by virtue of which they exercise authority over others.
NCC student officers learn how to organize things and how to command men. Later on, they may join the regular army where their qualities of leadership will find the fullest scope. Scouting too offers training in leadership.
Essential qualities of leadership are courage and daring, a capacity to take risks, self-confidence, the spirit of initiative and enterprise, the capacity to handle men and situations, the ability to address large audiences, the power to take quick decisions, the capacity to inspire confidence in others, and stamina of endurance.
These qualities are needed in a leader no matter what the field of his activity is. It is only during the gears of boyhood and youth that these qualities can be developed, and they can best be developed through sports, through extracurricular activities, through students unions, through N.C.C. training, through scouting and similar other channels.
Student Unrest
Student unrest is a worldwide phenomenon. There is hardly a country free from it. There are many socio-economic factors causing this. The unrest among students is an outward expression of the resentment that the community feels towards the government, the society and the institutions that they study in.
It is human nature that when a person, especially the youth, is alienated or his problems are not heeded to, or if he is unable to face the realities of life, he resorts to violent means to focus public attention.
When the number of such students grows large, they unite on a common platform and together tread on the path of violence. Actually education plays a vital role in molding one’s behavior and in preparing a child to the world at large. This role, it seems, is not carried out satisfactorily by most institutions nowadays.
When a student steps into the world of reality, he is baffled to find himself a misfit. In this fast-changing society, he cannot perhaps keep pace. Hence there is unrest among the youth.
The youth get frustrated when they see a great deal of disparity between the theory and its application. This causes them to wonder whether all that they ever learnt would ever come in use or would go waste.
Added to that is their economic dissatisfaction. All these factors blend together and give rise to a cult of violence. It is only a beneficial educational policy and a better social order that can bring about a sobering effect on them.
It is hence the duty of the sensible and responsible citizens of society and authorities that they should do all that they can to remove the irritants that cause such unrest. The youth should never be neglected.
They are impatient, hasty and full of new ideas and vision. Their dreams have got to be materialized and they like to see this happening as a result of their hard work and sometimes by force.
However, they often lead the country to new horizons, because out of unrest emerges a better society.
