Study to acquire knowledge

Noted educationist and litterateur Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal has urged the young learners to learn the texts with good understanding, instead of remaining dependent on guide books and coaching centres.

Knowledge acquired through proper education helps to run the country towards development, he said while addressing the centenary celebration of Balijuri FM High School in Madarganj upazila of Jamalpur yesterday.

The country will go ahead in different fields through the culture of science and technology, he said, adding that experts from home and abroad are hopeful that Bangladesh will reach the level of developed countries in a foreseeable future.

State Minister for Textile and Jute Mirza Azam MP attended the programme as chief guest.

The school started its journey on January 1 in 1915 with Babu Amulya Chakrabarty as the headmaster, school sources said.

All the eleven students who sat for the entrance (now secondary school certificate) examinations from the school for the first time in 1920 came out successful.