According to the OERP Public and International Relations, Dr Mohyeddin Bahram Mohammadian answered reporters in a news conference on Sunday, March the 1st. He suggested that suitable questions lead to active minds and creativity. He criticized practice books that easily provide answers of questions and tests and claimed that such books promote rote learning and result in laziness of students' minds.
He added, "we design subject content appropriate to the future needs and we require a bounce for this purpose. We already have a learning domain called "thinking and wisdom", however, practice books shut down thinking.
The Deputy Minister of Education for Research pointed out, "we are not against technology but we must build up the culture of correctly using technology among students. We do not need to offer everything in textbooks but the basics should be there and the rest will be on families and students. Of course I admit that one of our problems is that our education is general and we have been concentrating on the common characteristics, however, special attention should be paid to individual differences in a modern education."
Dr Mohammadian continued, "extra-curricular activities have been designed to provide an opportunity to fulfil students' interests. They should be so diverse that every student can choose from according to his/her interests. One hundred hours of extra-curricular activities have been afforded in the National Curriculum, half of which are planned at the OERP and the other half at the regional education departments. We have tried to fulfill the interests of students. This could be tracked, for instance in Farsi textbooks in which there are three or four open lessons whose contents are prepared jointly by teachers and students."
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