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This is tradition observed every year in all the schools, universities and other educational institutions throughout the kingdom. At Assumption University the annual Wai Kru this year was celebrated on June 18, 1998with soleminuty byt not without a touch of splendour. The tradition of paying respects to teachers and elders is distinctly oriental and the good customs continue to be preserved in spite of the fast tempo of Westernisation and globalisation taking place every where in this age of information superhighway.
The photos on the left showing masses of uniformed students marching up, standing and seated at the King’s Lawn with begowned teachers accepting bouquets of flowers are inspiring indeed. Here are some memorable quotes on education.
By education, then, I mean goodness in the form in which it is first acquired by a chid….the rightly disciplined state of pleasures and pains whereby a man from his first beginnings on will abhor what he should abhor and relish what he should relish,
Plato
Human History becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
A teacher affects elernity ; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
Education is not preparation for life ; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.
Aristotle
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Rector Dr. P. Martin Komolmas delivers an address during the Wai Kru Ceremony held on June 18, 1998
Administrators and faculty members accept flowers from students as part of the Wai Kru celebrations
Students stand up at King's Lawn to pay respects to faculty members proceeding toward the Hall of Fame.
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