Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni said that no matter how much controversy arises over textbooks, the country will not go back, it will only move forward.
She said this at the opening ceremony of a five-day workshop with writers on revising the sixth and seventh grade textbooks of the new curriculum organized at Brac CDM Centre in Ashulia on Monday. The workshop will continue till March 31.
She said: “For 200 years we were accustomed to a question-and-answer education system. That is why rote learning has become popular but memorized knowledge is not remembered.”
The minister said: “Making our education fun, teaching students to think, teaching them to analyze – all of these will be taught to students through the new curriculum. Students are very happy with this system. A large number of teachers are also happy. However, some are opposing for the sake of opposing.”
“Among them, opposition political parties, some religious groups, those involved in coaching business, involved in note book or guide book business and some teachers who does coaching are opposing this curriculum due to the fear of losing their own interests,” she added.
