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There are flaws in education system, says Yash Pal

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Being multi-lingual gives children many concepts

CHENNAI: Education is no protection against the Hindutva ideology, said Yash Pal, former chairperson of the University Grants Commission at the Madras Institute of Development Studies here on Monday. In an informal, wide ranging discussion entitled `Contemporary Issues of Social Concern,' he talked about the flaws in the current education system, the pressure of modern living on relationships and the growth of terrorism.

Being multi-lingual gave children many more concepts to work with, he said. The National Curriculum Framework that he has been involved with envisioned the textbook as an attempt to understand, not as the source of fixed truths. However, schools expressed unwillingness to include subjects like music in the syllabus, he said.

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