IPOH: Too much focus on academic qualification can only help prepare students technically but don't necessarily result in practical abilities and lead to segregation in occupational abilities and human values after their school days said the Regent of Perak, Raja Dr Nazrin Shah.
The objective of education is not to produce robotic human beings who are focused on the processing of data and lack innovation, focus, determination and the art of survival in the real world.
"If the young ones are not brought up with a balance in academic qualification and human capital, the future of the world will remain bleak and invite various forms of uncertainties".
"It is also wrong to entirely put the responsibility of building the young generation, in the hands of teachers because the future of kids are also determined by two factors - home and family," he said when opening a state level Teachers' Day celebration here on Thursday, May 20.
He added that while academic qualifications are earned in schools, character building starts at home.
Raja Dr Nazrin said of late, the country had witnessed a decline in discipline and moral values, both among educated professionals and the not so educated, a phenomenon which is truly alarming.
"The aspects of moral and discipline are important components to human capital and nation building. Focus on education alone and forgetting elements like tradition, respect can culminate into a major social problem".
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