NEW DELHI: In an inspiring address to 200 Times Scholars handpicked from among over 3 lakh students who enrolled for the programme, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu said students should set high goals in the careers they choose and follow through with self-discipline, hard work and perseverance.

Delivering a virtual address at an event to felicitate winners of the 2019 Times Scholars programme, a Times of India initiative that seeks to inculcate the reading habit among the young, Naidu said students must not look at education merely as a means to get a job, but as a path to get enlightened and to become good human beings.

I am happy to know that at the heart of the programme is an endeavour to promote reading, especially reading of newspapers among students. I have always believed that a well-read student is definitely better prepared to overcome challenges in life and seize every opportunity that comes his or her way, he said.

Naidu also emphasised the need to teach children to be intelligent and discerning readers. Circumstances also demand that we teach them to navigate through all the misinformation and fake news that infest the media landscape, especially the new media environment today. Like the legendary bird, the hamsa, our children must be able to assimilate and absorb the truth and discard the lies, the VP said.

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We must teach students to navigate through misinformation, fake news: VP - Times of India