‘No room for objectionable content in textbooks’

KARACHI:

Sindh education minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah stressed on the need to ensure exclusion of controversial and prohibited content from textbooks.

He said matter exhibiting or promoting human rights violations, sexual discrimination and harsh treatment of animals be removed from the textbooks.

Any behavior that promotes violence, intolerance and extremism in society should not be part of the curriculum, he said, stressing on the need to undertake efforts to discourage unwanted attitudes.

The education minister further said that the new generation of educated teachers and people from civil society, who have a taste for reading and writing, should be given an open offer to write articles for various textbooks and after extensive reviews. He said the best articles must be made as part of the text.

He expressed these views at the Sindh Curriculum Council’s (SCC) 11th meeting under his chairmanship.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 11^th, 2021.