Education is a great equaliser: Dhankhar

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar has hailed the National Education Policy, 2020, calling it a “remarkable” policy. He said this while addressing students and faculty members on the 156th Founders’ celebration of Sherwood College, Nainital in Uttarakhand, on Friday.

He said: “When you step out in the larger domain, you will know the great advantages of the National Education Policy-2020. It’s a remarkable policy. It distances you from degrees and credentials; and helps you discover yourself, your talent.”

He advised the students to imbibe the spirit of keeping nation first. “We will have to subscribe to a nationalism without qualification, one that is unrestricted, because that is what Bharat, a unique nation with 5,000 years of civilisational depth deserves at a minimum,” he said.

He said that quality education, its accessibility and affordability should be fundamentals of any democratic nation. “Getting quality education in a nation of 1.4 billion is a privilege,” he said.

“Education is a great equaliser. Equality in law or otherwise can be optimally and best secured only through education. It hits hard at inequities and injustice, and that's what you are going to do all your life,” he added.

Appealing to parents, Dhankhar stated that parenthood is the most important obligation, not only to their children but also to humanity. “Please do not stress your children. Don’t decide what their object in life is. If you will decide, all of them will end up being in pursuit of money and power. Where would we have scientists? Where would we have astronomers? Where would we have people who define destiny for the entire globe?" he said.