They said it in September

They said it in September”For sustained economic development, all information that has been generated should be used to improve the skills of students and help them embark on a life-long mission of learning.” President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, speaking at the inauguration of the silver jubilee celebrations of Gulbarga University on September 21″Indian science and technology must make a greater difference to the lives of our people.”Dr. Manmohan Singh, prime minister, speaking at the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar awards ceremony held on September 13″EDUSAT will propel India into a leadership role in distance education over satellite.”ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair on the successful launch of India‚s first education transmission satellite”EDUSAT will be very beneficial considering the shortage of teachers, especially in frontier areas of technology.”K. Balaveera Reddy, vice-chancellor of Visveswaraiah Technological University (118 engineering colleges in Karnataka with 1,30,000 students)”Distortion of history and culture in the official textbooks of Pakistan is a serious issue. Actually it is ‚Ëœmurder of history‚, to borrow a phrase from the title of a book by the Pakistani educationist, K.K. Aziz.”B. Muralidhar Reddy in The Hindu (September 23)”In 1965, Pakistan occupied several areas of India, and when India was on the point of being defeated she requested the United Nations to arrange a ceasefire.”A Pakistan government school textbook “The dedication, passion and commitment, which are expected from the implementing agencies are lacking. Policies, programmes and schemes of the government tend to get compartmentalised and isolated for administrative reasons.”Arjun Singh, Union minister of human resource development”Justice is quality education for poor backward class children, not perpetual reservation for the creamy layer. Wisdom is not grabbing what others have built but sowing for a better future.”P.V. Indiresan, former director of IIT-Madras in The Indian Express (September 24) “We have a war against terror. But where‚s the war on poverty?”Sander Veenman, Dutch photographer in unsigned picture book Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp