Alwin Toffler wrote, “Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be a person who does not know how to read, but a person who does not know how to learn.”
Learning is a continuous process. We learn at the school, at our homes, at the offices, at the market place, sitting in front of the TV or browsing our mobiles. It may be formal or informal, conscious or unconscious, direct or indirect. Animals also learn slowly but surely.
Are we ready to meet the tomorrow – the unknown and uncertain tomorrow, the tomorrow of our dreams or about which we can never imagine? We live in the midst of changes, constant and calamitous, disruptive and devastating changes. If we are to meet the challenges of tomorrow, we should learn today and every day; build, accumulate, organise our knowledge, learn something new, something different, which will meet the needs of tomorrow. The knowledge, an Engineering student acquires in the four years of his....