New Delhi, Feb 19: Expressing concern over the state of the country's education system, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Justice A S Anand today said it should help in strengthening national unity and social solidarity instead of confining to awarding degrees and diplomas. "At present the education system has buckled under the pressure of circumstances and has contended itself to the role of merely awarding degrees and diplomas without paying adequate attention to the future of fate of the students. This is rather a disturbing feature of the present day and has far reaching consequences," he said while attending a function of Hindu College here.
Programmes should be devised to promote human and moral values and check the wave of consumerism, materialism, communalism, degrading life values and educate the children about virtues like love and tolerance, Anand said.
"Whatever be the cause of the present value crisis, there is no gain saying the fact that the weakening of moral values in our social life is creating serious social and ethical conflicts," Anand said. Bureau Report