National Education Policy aims to prepare kids for life’s challenges: Amit Shah

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 29

In an indirect dig at opposition Congress, Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah today said that previously, the education policy was there to perpetuate rule of a group of people. “But the Independent India requires a learning system that instils character, empathy and valour among children to make them future-ready to take on challenges of life,” he said.

Addressing an event to mark the completion of two years of the National Education Policy (NEP), Shah said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intent was to provide an antidote to Macaulay’s 1835 system of education, which was designed to create clerks. Noting that the NEP is rooted in “Bharatiyata”, while assimilating global perspective, Shah said the policy enriched knowledge and culture and was aligned with aspirations of society.

“The purpose of education is to develop character, empathy, courage and prepare students to deal with challenges of life,” he said.

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