Paragraph On Our Student Leaders
There was a time when we could pride
ourselves on the qualities of our student leaders. It is they who were then
conscience-keepers of the people. It is they who gave them the right sense of
direction and purpose at the time of crisis. Their leadership during the
Language Movement in 1952, the People’s Uprising in 1969, and the War of
Liberation in 1971 dazzle our history in the letters of gold. But after the
achievement of independence history tells us a pathetic tale. The quality of
leadership in the student sector as well as in other sectors has progressively
degenerated resulting in campus violence, bloodshed, and even death. It is
because of the wrong steps of the majority of our student leaders that the
evils like terrorism on the campus, unscheduled closure of institutions,
session jam, cramming, and copying in the examination halls have struck firm
roots in the seats of learning. Academic pursuits and the acquisition of knowledge have
become matters of the past. The standard of education has hopelessly
deteriorated. All this is nothing but suicidal for the student community
leading towards a blank future looming large for the whole nation. It is high
time that our student leaders should realize their blunders and rise to the
occasion to follow the ideals set by their predecessors.
