Think not of yourselves but of your country and the less fortunate people in it. These were the words of UG’s 2015 valedictorian Sachin Ramsuran as he encouraged his fellow graduates to “make a personal’ sacrifice and stay in Guyana to assist in creating a better life for its people.
Ramsuran was delivering his address at the University of Guyana’s 49th Convocation ceremony which was held at the Turkeyen Campus on Saturday evening. The Faculty of Tech-nology Electrical Engineering graduate in congratulating his colleagues noted that regardless of whatever differences may have characterized their time at UG the fact that they all graduated “implies that [they] share several common qualities such as self-discipline dedication and unwavering adherence to a philosophy of life which guided us in our most difficult times at UG.”
“Life is not deterministic, it is probabilistic, we cannot predict the future but by making decisions which give us the highest probability of being successful we can create the future that we want,” he stressed explaining that the decision to attend UG was one such decision.
“Continue making such decisions, continue sacrificing,” he encouraged.
In his first address as chancellor of the university, Professor Eon Nigel Harris also extolled the virtues of a university education not just to the graduates but to their children and the societies in which they live.
A university degree, he noted, benefits not only graduates themselves but can extend to succeeding generations as a university education has been shown to contribute to longer and more socially beneficial lives.
He stressed however that a degree by itself is not the sole determinant of personal advancement. According to the