PM Modi addresses a conclave on “School education in the 21st century” within the framework of NEP-2020. (File)
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a conclave on “School education in the 21st century” as part of the National Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) by video conference.
The education ministry held the two-day conclave, which began Thursday, as part of the “Shiksha Parv,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement.
The “Shiksha Parv” (education festival) is celebrated from September 8 to 25 to congratulate teachers and advance the new education policy.
Here are the highlights of PM Modi’s speech on “School education in the 21st century” in the context of NEP-2020:
- Every region of the world has changed over the past three decades. Every system has changed. There is hardly any aspect of our life in these three decades that is the same as before. But the path on which society is heading into the future, our education system, still operated according to the old model.
- The new national education policy is also a way to respond to the new India, to new expectations, to new demands. Behind it lies the hard work of the past four-five years, people of all walks of life, of all genders, of all languages have worked on it day and night. But this work is not yet finished.
- I am happy that our directors and teachers are enthusiastically participating in this campaign to implement the national education policy.
- A few days ago, the Ministry of Education asked teachers across the country for their suggestions on MyGov regarding the implementation of the national education policy. Over 1.5 million suggestions were received in one week. These suggestions will help to implement the national education policy more effectively.
- Mathematical thinking and scientific temperament should develop in children, it is very necessary. And mathematical thinking doesn’t just mean kids solve math problems, it’s a way of thinking.
- We must multiply simple and innovative methods. Our experience should be at the heart of New Age learning – Engage, Explore, Experiment, Express and Excel. The NEP was designed to reduce the program and focus on the basics. A national educational framework will be developed to make learning integrated and interdisciplinary, fun and comprehensive.
- We need to advance our students with 21st century skills. These will be: critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, curiosity, communication.
- Our previous education policy also connected our students very much. The student who studies in science cannot study arts or business. For those who have Arts-Commerce, it is assumed that they read History, Geography, Accounts because they cannot read the signs. But in the real world, is it possible in our lives that all the work can be done with the knowledge of just one area? In reality, all subjects are related to each other. Each learning is interdependent.
- Can a test, a score sheet, be a parameter for children’s learning, their mental development? Today the truth is that the goal sheet has become a mental pressure sheet.
- We have to understand one scientific thing: language is the medium of education, language is not only education. Whatever language the child can easily learn, learn things, the same language should be the language of learning.
