{"id":43312,"date":"2018-09-29T11:51:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43312"},"modified":"2018-09-29T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:51:55","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-stresses-on-importance-of-character-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pm-narendra-modi-stresses-on-importance-of-character-building\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi stresses on importance of character-building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday emphasised the importance of character-building over literacy and called for \u2018wholesome\u2019 education in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of \u2018Conference on Academic Leadership on Education for Resurgence\u2019 organised by the HRD Ministry.<br \/>\n\u201cKnowledge and education are not restricted to books. The purpose of education is to enable balanced growth of every dimension of a human being, which is not possible without innovation,\u201d Modi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmbedkar, Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Ram Manohar Lohiya always emphasised on character-building over literacy. Swami Vivekananda stressed on wholesome education that makes us a human,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister asserted that without innovation life would become a burden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnovation is very important because without it life seems like a burden. In our ancient universities like Takshshila, Nalanda and Vikramashila, innovation was given emphasis along with knowledge.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday emphasised the importance of character-building over literacy and called for \u2018wholesome\u2019 education in the country. He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of \u2018Conference on Academic Leadership on Education for Resurgence\u2019 organised by the HRD Ministry. \u201cKnowledge and education are not restricted to books. The purpose of education [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43314,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312\/revisions\/43314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}