Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga said that education should be modernised in order for it to be effective, and that it also played a big role in solving social issues.
“The concept of education without borders has to move far beyond the traditional systems that we know, and it is important to include everyone [who are involved] socially, politically and economically,” Kumaratunga said in Dubai, during a panel discussion under the theme, ‘Education-Going Global’.
Education reforms were introduced in Sri Lanka recently to modernise education and the method of teaching, as she pointed out, with new subjects introduced in the curricula, such as Peace Education, so that “they can celebrate the richness of diversity instead of rejecting it.”
Education leaders on Tuesday highlighted the need to use technology in the education system in order to raise the standards of schools in rural areas of developing countries.
“The problem is that we set the target for a classroom but we do not think about how they benefit from being there. On an international level, you should not use traditional [teaching] ways in a classroom because in developed worlds, we still think of teaching in a static and unreformed way," said former British PM Tony Blair said.
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