Create lifelong learners - Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam
- Rediff President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam has urged teachers to create lifelong autonomous learners in their students who will blossom into enlightened citizens. The President addressing them over Doordarshan and All India Radio on the occasion of Teachers' Day on Monday. Dr Kalam in his speech titled "Injecting Beauty of Science in Teaching" added that science is a fascinating subject and learning science needs freedom to think and freedom to imagine. Both have to be facilitated by teachers and the education system. Challenging questions have to be asked and students should be allowed to think to come-up with an answer. Teachers must also find answers to the questions asked by the students, or at least students should be guided to an approach through which an answer can be found. Dr Kalam said in today's world of communication and information, a student has ample information coming to him or her through a multitude of sources -- some authentic and others not. It i...