Ever since the Modi government came to power, it is being accused of saffronising education. Now on these allegations, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has said that what is wrong in saffronising education.
Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu said in a program that the people of the country have to change their mindset. People have to drop the “colonial mindset” and learn to take pride in their identity. He called for a complete rejection of the Macaulay system of education, saying it imposed a foreign language as the medium of instruction in the country and restricted education to the elite.
Vice President Naidu said about the education system that BJP is accused of saffronising education, but then what is wrong with saffron? Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, which are the philosophies contained in our ancient texts, India’s foreign policy is on this principle even today.
The Vice President said- “Centuries of colonial rule taught us to see ourselves as a low caste. We were taught to despise our culture, traditional knowledge. It slowed down our growth as a nation. The imposition of a foreign language as our medium of instruction limited education. A small section of the society is depriving a vast population of the right to education.”
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said these things in his address during a program at Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya in Haridwar. Venkaiah Naidu further said that we should feel proud of our heritage, our culture, our ancestors and we should go back to our roots. He said- “We must abandon our colonial mindset and teach our children to be proud of their Indian identity. We should love our mother tongue. We should learn Sanskrit to know our Shastras, which are a treasure trove of knowledge.”
Addressing the program, Vice President Naidu said that Indianisation of the education system is central to the country’s new education policy, which lays great emphasis on promotion of mother tongues. He said that he was waiting for the day on which all the gadget notifications would be issued in the mother tongue of the respective state.