A webinar on “education for self-reliant India’ was organized under the Career Education Webinar Series of Rabindranath Tagore University.
In the webinar Mukul Kanitkar, eminent thinker and educationist and National Organization Minister, Indian Board of Education was present as the main speaker.
As a special guest in this webinar, the Chancellor of Rabindranath Tagore University, Santosh Choubey, and the Vice Chancellor of Dr. CV Raman University, Khandwa, Prof. Amitabh Saxena were present. The theme of the webinar is to make the nation self-reliant through the collective efforts of three teachers, students and educational institutions.
Kanitkar gave four mantras for teachers and students of educational institutions - confidence, attitude, entrepreneurship and research. He further said that self-reliance starts from the person. Self-reliance only increases self-confidence. Attitude is essential for life vision.
The reputation of entrepreneurship and labor needs to be restored. Research should be made the method of teaching. Students of primary classes should also develop an understanding of research. The highest level of self-reliance is the Gurukul system. It is necessary to reinstall it. India will be self-sufficient only when the society takes it up. Decentralized development will make it self-sufficient.
He further said that the world is searching for welfare leadership. Whose strength is in India. It is the responsibility of the teacher. The teacher should bring change. Talking on the issue of language, he said that if the country becomes powerful, the whole world will learn Hindi.
Santosh Choubey said that self-reliance means autonomy. We make our own decisions. Self-reliance does not mean that we are separated from the rest of the world. He talked about making village clusters in the university of AISECT group. All work related to education should be done in Indian languages. Education should also have social integration.