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Guests of honour
Highlights of Mr. Ranjan
Mathai address
Highlights of Mr. Ashok
Ganguly's address
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His Excellency Mr. Ranjan Mathai, Ambassador of
India to Qatar, was his usual self while addressing the gathering.
Here are some of the highlights of his speech -
- He thanked the Emir of Qatar
for all the support to the school and the Indian community
and also praised the role Qatar is playing not only in the
affairs of the Gulf but also the world. Sighted the examples
of Doha WTO round of talks and the role Al Jazeera played
during the recent Afghan challenge.
- His interest in education continues
as a life-long student and also as a parent of school going
children
- Principals have the onerous responsibility
of imparting social consciousness beyond curriculum
- Curriculum and methodology have
to keep with change
- Quoting Elliot he said: "Where
is the Knowledge, We have lost in Information; Where is
the Wisdom, We have lost in Knowledge"
- He commended the schools as
a centre for learning not only for the Indian community
but also for other communities and nationalities
- Wished the very best for the
conference and its future endeavours
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Mr. Ashok Ganguly, Chairman, CBSE extolled the Principals to keep
up the good work and said -
- He admired the efforts of the
Principals in extending all educational avenues to the students
here and also for the commitment to knowledge and advancement
of learning
- The need to revisit the content
and the process of our education system due to emergence
of knowledge society
- The need to face the challenges
of globalisation, technological advancements, social inequalities,
upholding democracy and human rights, multiculturalism,
declining moral values and last but not least the ever changing
environment which brings in uncertainties
- The need to implement whatever
we plan, that is one major challenge. Resistances will be
galore from several quarters, but we need to go ahead in
- Imparting language
skills
- Improving pedagogy
and methodology
- Scientific training
for teachers, individuals on subjects and other
matters
- Teachers empowerment
programmes like the one we had in IIMA
- Work and employment,
building team skills and mobility
- Developing right attitude
of openness to ideas, thoughts, culture and tolerance
- Evaluation should
go beyond cognition involving hand, head and heart
(Physical, intellectual and consciousness)
- Fostering education
and industry interaction
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- Success in future depends on
the networking the educationists have to do with technologists
and organizational developers as the growth in technology
will be unabated bringing in unprecedented developments
- Education cannot be isolated
and we need to interact with all stakeholders in the society
to develop leaderships, environment and, attract and retain
talent
- Highlighting the future,
- Bio-technology is
being introduced into the curriculum,
- Maths Olympiad has
taken a new shape with country winning 8 golds
- National Inter school
quiz and IT Olympiads coming up
- The syllabus of class
9 and 11 being revised
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- While closing the speech that
it is the responsibility of every educationist here to reduce
the load on children and asked why can't we make sure that
students till class 2 carry only a tiffin box to school
and nothing else?
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