Media Release

Panaji, Dec 18: Shantaram Naik, MP said at Collem here on Thursday December 17 that education system of the country should be capable of producing students who can distinguish clearly between right and wrong and between good and evil.

Naik who was the chief guest at the annual gathering of Our Lady of Piety School, Collem. He said that education imparted to the students should not be formal but should be such that the students when they become mature citizens of the country, are able to assess happenings around them and make their own judgments.

If education does not give a citizen enough capability to judge the performance of their elected representatives, or puts them in a confused state of mind while choosing their representatives, then, it will tend to be a failure of democracy and also the education system itself, Naik said. 

Naik further said that a big revolution is going to take place in the country in the field of education and added that the state governments should gear up their machinery to implement the free and compulsory Education Act. Naik said 700 new model schools are proposed to be established in the country, and that, although Goa is not included in the first phase, the state will have 11 model schools in each of the talukas in near future.

Guest of honour of the day Fr Kyriel D’Souuza highlighted the achievements of the institution. Fr Pio Furtado read out the annual report.

Fr Orlando Lopes welcomed the gathering. Custodio Fernandes, Shruthi Naik and Nandita Desai compered the programme.