State Counsellor Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi delivered a speech yesterday asking for change in the
country’s education philosophy within five years at the opening ceremony of the
Myanmar National Education Strategic Plan (2016-2021) held in the Myanmar
International Convention Centre in Nay Pyi Taw.
She said that the
Myanmar education system must be changed mainly to create job opportunities and
to encourage lifelong learning for young students and adults over the next five
years.
“The change must be
started in education,” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday. “We all need to
consider what the main needs are to succeed after the National Education Strategic
Plan has been adopted.”
The State Counsellor
said that the desire to learn is most important in educationso that all the
leading implementers who set up policies and teachers must encourage “the
desire to learn” mindset and they themselves need to have the desire to learn
in order to be able to spread this sentiment widely among the youth. She said
that teachers must be desirous of learning and have the desire for life-long
learning so that all the learners will become inspired with the similar mood.
Therefore, whatever plan is to be developed, all the participants need to lead
the vision for success.
She said that it was
very important for all the leading implementers of the education project to
keep the mindset that they have a lot to learn.
“The people who think
they know everything cannot continuously learn,” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said.
“Only self-learning teachers and the project leaders can lead to a nationwide
mindset to be more desirous of learning. The learning will start when we are
humble ourselves and say we need to learn a lot more.”
We need to have
confidence that we are capable of doing matters that we need to know and for
the children to have the mindset that they still need to know a lot of things.
However, they would not develop their learning mindset if the parents and
teachers do not encourage their desire for learning. The problem of older
people is that they think themselves perfect and have no more desire to learn.
The State Counsellor
said she will never be finished in pursuing education and everyone should have
a mindset to continue learning as long as we live.
“The National Education
Strategic Plan would not be difficult for the young and for adults to learn, if
we understand well the fact that we must learn, and that we continue to learn.
We want to learn, and how to learn,” she said.
She wishes the
teachers, through self-learning, can support the country, including children
and adults who want to continue to learn the matters we need to know
efficiently and hopes all the friendly helpers also have the same vision and
can help with understanding.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
said that she could serve effectively for the benefit of the country only after
she had learnt about the needs and the challenges of the country and believed that
her friends would also have the same mindset for the country.
She wished the
participants would serve the new generation who believe that they must learn by
having the “desire to learn” mindset to enable the nation to uplift its
education system by all-inclusiveness, which is very important for the
development of the country.
Dr Myo Thein Gyi, Union
Minister for Education then handed over a remembrance gift to the State
Counsellor to mark the initiatives of the National Education Strategic Plan.
Dr Myo Thein Gyi said
that the aim of National Education Strategic Plan, 2016 -2021 was to distinctly
improve the learning process of students with better teaching methods and for
the development of vocational education, research and innovation.
Mr Nicholas Coppel,
Australian Ambassador to Myanmar, and Mr Bertrand Bainvel, the UNICEF
Representative to Myanmar on behalf of Allied Educational Organizations,
explained the National Education Strategic Plan (2016-2021). The State
Counsellor, Region and State Ministers and responsible persons from Allied
Education Organizations then posed for official photos.
Ref; The Global New
Light of Myanmar
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