Education should encourage critical thinking, make students come out with innovative solutions: Vice President
New Delhi, Apr 20 (IBNS): Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that education should not only prepare the youth to face challenges of a technologically-driven knowledge society, but also make them analyze critically and come out with innovative solutions to the problems faced by people.
He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the IILM University Gurugram Campus from IILM Lodhi Road Campus, here on Friday.
The Vice President said that students should be confident of dreaming big and exploring uncharted territories and remain rooted to our culture, traditions, customs and history.
He further said that they should never neglect their parents, mother tongue, motherland and native village.
They should always believe in co-existing harmoniously with nature for a better future, he added.
The Vice President expressed concern over the global ranking of Indian Universities and said that there are more than 800 universities in the country and none of them figures in the top ranked global institutes.
He said that merely expanding infrastructure with sleek-looking buildings will not make an institution excellent unless it imparts education of highest standards without compromising on quality.
Liberal and interdisciplinary education is must to get a holistic perspective of the increasingly knowledge-centric and interdependent world, he added.
Vice President said that education in silos will not equip students for future. Liberal education with focus on technology, skill development and entrepreneurship will serve well the students, industry and the society, he added.
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