Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday requested individuals of the nation to surrender their “colonial mindset” and be taught to take pleasure in their very own identification.
He referred to as for complete rejection of the Macaulay system of schooling within the seventy fifth yr of Independence, saying it imposed a overseas language because the medium of schooling within the nation and confined schooling to the elite.
“Centuries of colonial rule taught us to look upon ourselves as an inferior race. We were taught to despise our own culture, traditional wisdom. This slowed our growth as a nation. The imposition of a foreign language as our medium of education confined education to a small section of the society, depriving a vast population of the right to education,” Naidu mentioned in his handle after inaugurating the South Asian Institute of Peace and Reconciliation on the Dev Sanskriti Vishwa Vidyalaya right here.
“We ought to really feel pleased with our heritage, our tradition, our forefathers. We should return to our roots. We should hand over our colonial mindset and educate our kids to take pleasure of their Indian identification. We should be taught as many Indian languages as doable. We should love our mom tongue. We should be taught Sanskrit to know our scriptures, that are a treasure trove of information,” the vice chairman mentioned.
Encouraging children to propagate their mom tongue, he mentioned, “I’m trying ahead to the day when all gadget notifications are issued within the mom tongue of a respective state. Your mom tongue is like your eyesight, whereas your information of a overseas language is like your spectacles.” Indianisation of the schooling system is central to India’s new schooling coverage, which places nice emphasis on the promotion of mom tongues, Naidu mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
