‘Our education needs to be value-based’

DHARWAD: Educational institutions should impart value-based education to help the student’s overall development, said former PWD secretary G C Tallur.
Delivering the Dr DC Pavate Endowment lecture on ‘Education in India and Morality’ organised by Karnatak University here on Tuesday, he said the present education system focuses more on making the student employable rather than enhancing his knowledge.
Since the British era, several commissions have been formed to suggest measures to improve the educational standards but none of them have ever laid emphasis on moral education, he added.
Several eminent personalities including Mahatma Gandhi always batted for incorporating moral values in education but their suggestions have not been fully implemented, he rued.
Teaching morality and spirituality will help in the overall development of a student’s personality, Tallur said. Karnataka University vice-chancellor K B Gudasi said the National Education Policy 2020 aims at comprehensive change in the education system. Here the student has been given freedom to choose his subject of interest and focus more on research and development, he said.
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The New Education Policy will bring in drastic changes in the education sector and make India more strong and vibrant, he added.
Hailing Dr D C Pavate as a great scholar, visionary and an able administrator Gudasi asked the students and staff to work for the progress of the varsity and take it to greater heights.