Chennai: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has called upon the universities and educators to re-evaluate our education system to make it more value-based, holistic and complete.
Addressing the 13th e-convocation of ICFAI University, Sikkim, through video-conferencing Thursday, he asked the educators to take inspiration from our holistic Vedic education and understand the vision behind New Education Policy.
Quoting Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, the Vice President said that education without values is no education at all. “Educational institutions and universities are expected to produce well-rounded and compassionate human beings and not mere degree holders”, he said and rued that often, this aspect gets ignored in the race for paychecks.
Giving the example of climate change, Naidu said the holistic solution to combat this challenge should include a value-based education that respects nature.
He stressed the need to equip our engineers and technologists to create new defences and come up with innovative out-of-box solutions to meet the challenges posed by extreme weather events.