Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Saturday said the country's education system needs to be reoriented to reflect the tradition of quest for knowledge and also acquiring life skills.
The present school education system should be completely revamped, he said.
Naidu, who was speaking at the annual day function of Jubilee Hills Public School here, said the children must ask questions and seek answers.
Such questioning should become an essential characteristic of a students education, he said.
"The school curriculum should be oriented to make students think rationally, independently and express cogently," he said.
Highlighting the great Indian tradition of 'Guru Shishya Parampara,' he said teachers and students used to live together and engage in a constant dialogue.
Naidu stressed on technology and tradition going together.
He suggested that only 50 per cent of the time should be spent in class rooms with remaining 50 per cent spent outside.
Noting that lifestyle changes were leading to a number of diseases, he said Indian food was time-tested and the Indianness should be preserved.
"Instant food means constant disease," the vice president said.
He said "People who have ruled us (the British), ruined us, looted us, cheated us, cheated our minds also."
Replying to queries from students, he said farmers in the country were in distress not because of any particular government or any party, but "somehow our policy from the beginning, the planning commission those days, the parliament, the press and political parties have not given adequate importance to agriculture and rural development."
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