Iran Press/ America: Ebrahim Raisi delivered a speech on Monday afternoon local time at the Transforming Education Summit organized by UNESCO, saying: "Unfortunately, the culture of hegemony sees its benefits in preventing other countries from development and by creating an unfair global order, misusing the international bodies and setting up their own cultural and thought systems, try to prevent other countries from progress and development."
Raisi is in New York to attend the UNGA's 77th session.
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"Progress and development are among the major concerns of all countries. Although on different occasions countries have implemented international recommendations and prescriptions in this regard, concurrently some serious challenges, too, have emerged for the indigenous and national cultures of the countries of the world," he said.
"We believe that in order to face the educational challenges, we need to identify their root causes. We have been fundamentally critical of the international bodies' reading and interpretation of the global contemporary history and their classification of issues. If our cause is to create a dignified life and a safe world, we should refrain from providing a unilateral gathering of globaliastion, and instead, emphasise on the role-playing of all parties within the framework of multilateral approaches," noted the president.
"We expect the international bodies to respect the right to cultural and educational sovereignty of all countries and to protect them against cultural invasion. We believe that educational transformation without paying attention to "family, justice, and spirituality" would not be possible," he added.
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Ebrahim Raisi continued: "We should focus on moral values, including honoring the family, respect for the environment, justice, rejection of violence and extremism, and creating a safe, moral, clean and efficient cyberspace as our priorities for educational transformation."
"Accordingly, the Islamic Republic of Iran has codified its educational transformation document based on Iranian-Islamic educational philosophy and, thus, has not solely relied upon the one-dimensional secular approaches mentioned in the 2030 Document. With the aim of enhancing quality in Iran's new educational system, we have moved from focusing on a memorization-based curriculum to one based on research, innovation, skill acquiring and commitment to education and cultural and religious values," he stressed.
While committing to its principled policies, he concluded that the Islamic Republic of Iran also stands ready to ensure interaction dialogue with others within the framework of its educational system, which is based on exalted and elevated human values.
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