PESHAWAR: Parents and teachers should put their heads together and shape up the lives of students for the country`s better future.

This was stated by Professor Rasool Jan, Vice Chancellor of the University of Peshawar, while speaking at the annual prize distribution ceremony at the University Public School here on Wednesday.

`We shouldn`t force children to perform beyond what they are. We should rather employee methods to inspire them,` he said.

The parents should not get angry at their children who had not performed well in academic year but should give them more love, he said.

Those who stayed at the bottom of the merit lists, should work hard to improve next year, he added.

All children may not have same intellectual capability, therefore, we should be careful in forcing our students to become doctor and engineer etc, and presented them examples where poor students had shown significant improvement when they were allowed to select their courses, maintained Mr Jan.

`Students should be guided by parents and teachers in selection of courses but not be forced to take up certain subjects,` he said.

`Purpose of education should be to produce good citizens as only getting position in classisn`t enough and we have to safeguard future of the generation,` he said.

College principal Hafiz Farooq Ali congratu-lated award-winning students in the last academic year and said that hard work held key to success.