Creativity, imagination of students take flight if they learn without stress: President Murmu

Dharamsala, May 6: Believing that the creativity and imagination of the students take flight if they learn independently and without any stress, President Droupadi Murmu on Monday addressed the seventh convocation of the Central University of Himachal Pradesh.

She said that change is the law of nature but the pace of change was not so rapid in the past.

“Today we are in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. New areas like artificial intelligence and machine learning are emerging rapidly. Both the speed and magnitude of change are very high due to which technology and required skills are changing very quickly. At the beginning of the 21st century, no one knew what kind of skills people would need in the next 20 or 25 years,” the President said.

She said that similarly, many current skills will no longer be useful in the future.

“Therefore, we have to continuously adopt new skills. Our focus should be on developing flexible minds so that the young generation can keep pace with the rapid changes taking place. We have to strengthen the curiosity and the desire to learn in the students to prepare them for facing the challenges of the 21st century.”