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Karan Singh, the President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, while talking on the ‘The Four Pillars of Education’ at the IILM and Global India Foundation in New Delhi mentioned that education should be meant for liberation in people and should not be something "which constricts you".
IILM is an institute for management studies where Global India Foundation is a think-tank based in Kolkata.
Mentioning that India is the home to a "dialogic civilisation", Singh mentioned that the process of asking questions while attending a class should be encouraged by the educators.
"This is deeply embedded in our culture. The scriptures from Upanishads to Gita are all based on dialogue, on asking questions," he said.
He mentioned that India lacks very much in providing vocational education. "We have very good IITs, but what we really need are thousands of people graduating from ITIs," he said, referring to Industrial Training Institutes.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University vice-chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, who presided the meeting earlier, mentioned that the process of “unlearning’ is a very vital step of education.
"It is very important to think about learning, about unlearning. Unlearning mean throwing away prejudice, mindset.. so that one can learn new things," said Pillai
