By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: A demand has been made to the Government of India, all the state governments and the other stake-holders to radically change the present educational system which is based on testing memory rather than understanding.
This demand has been made in the nine-point resolutions passed by a voice vote at the conclusion of the three-day International Conference marking the beginning of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Institute of Objective Studies here on Sunday at the India Islamic Cultural Centre. The resolutions were read out by Prof. Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor of National Law University, Orissa.
Prof. Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor of National Law University, Orissa, reading out the resolutions.
The conference urged major reforms in the examination systems, curricula development, faculty recruitment, governance of education and accountability of teachers and administrators. In this connection, the conference also urged the Government of India to implement the recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission, the Sachar Committee and Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission Report.
In another resolution the conference resolved that the real knowledge is at the intersection of the disciplines and, therefore, rather than erecting the walls of separation between various disciplines, it urged integration of knowledge as one of the most important goals of our knowledge reform.