Lucknow University to commence 'Education for Happiness' programme

According to Professor Amita Bajpai from Lucknow Education department, Lucknow University is going to begin a programme called ‘Education for Happiness’ in the M.Ed curriculum from the upcoming academic year in order to teach the real meaning of happiness to the students and make them acquainted with its Indian concept. She further informed that the programme is going to be optional and would be offered in M.Ed. It is going to be inter-disciplinary, so all the PG students have got the option to go for it. Adding more to this, she said that the course would be implemented from the next year following the permission of the academic council.

Children these days are looking for pleasure in the wrong places, their concept of happiness is fallacious. Happiness comes from within but they seek it in the material world. The university, through this course, wants them to learn the real meaning of happiness and make acquainted them with its Indian concept. She said that the course is yet to begin still it has begun gaining momentum among the students.

She said that the real purpose of education would be accomplished by the course. An educated person’s life is supposed to be better than an uneducated man’s but the reality is entirely different. We see the more educated a person becomes, the more he is focussed on competition and get tense. Bajpai believes that after the students of Lucknow University pursue this course, a change would be visible in society. She further stated that it is necessary to mark the indicators of stress and happiness.

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