BHOPAL: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday justified the emphasis of the National Education Policy 2020 on vernacular languages by saying it encourages original thought and will one day make India the centre of higher education in the world. Shah, who was on a day’s visit to Bhopal, addressed a congregation of educationists, academicians, doctors, sportsmen, and BJP‘s ministers and office-bearers as part of party patriarch Kushabhau Thakre’s 100th birth anniversary celebrations.
The Centre’s new education policy will be a platform for children so that “their inborn skills can be explored”. “This seed planted by the Prime Minister will grow by 2040 into a banyan tree and provide its shade to the world. India which used to be a centre of higher education in history will return to the same glory,” he said.
“I want to say with all humility that language does not represent a person’s capabilities. Language is only a person’s means of communication,” Shah said, adding: “If a person has capabilities, then no matter what language they speak, no one can ignore their views.”
Shah argued, “The British, to continue their rule in India, propagated numerous inferiority complexes in Indian society. They said that our education system was not properly structured. They did not know that the concept of zero came from our country. Our education system is based on research and the shastras.”
He said time has come to “shed such inferiority complexes and language differences”. “In many countries, the native language has been given protection and priority, be it Russia, China, France or Germany. This is the reason why PM Modi has called for technical education, research and higher studies in our mother tongue,” he said.
Shah congratulated Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the state government for starting the implementation of the New National Education Policy with an MBBS course in Hindi at Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal.
“A great country can be made with great people. The great people are hidden in the children of today. If you carefully go through our education policy then this aspect has been ingrained to strengthen the minds of our children,” Shah said.
The Centre’s new education policy will be a platform for children so that “their inborn skills can be explored”. “This seed planted by the Prime Minister will grow by 2040 into a banyan tree and provide its shade to the world. India which used to be a centre of higher education in history will return to the same glory,” he said.
“I want to say with all humility that language does not represent a person’s capabilities. Language is only a person’s means of communication,” Shah said, adding: “If a person has capabilities, then no matter what language they speak, no one can ignore their views.”
Shah argued, “The British, to continue their rule in India, propagated numerous inferiority complexes in Indian society. They said that our education system was not properly structured. They did not know that the concept of zero came from our country. Our education system is based on research and the shastras.”
He said time has come to “shed such inferiority complexes and language differences”. “In many countries, the native language has been given protection and priority, be it Russia, China, France or Germany. This is the reason why PM Modi has called for technical education, research and higher studies in our mother tongue,” he said.
Shah congratulated Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the state government for starting the implementation of the New National Education Policy with an MBBS course in Hindi at Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal.
“A great country can be made with great people. The great people are hidden in the children of today. If you carefully go through our education policy then this aspect has been ingrained to strengthen the minds of our children,” Shah said.