Ahsan Iqbal for afresh comprehensive curriculum to produce analytical minds.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives here on Tuesday underlined the importance of devising afresh comprehensive curriculum that would help produce analytical and creative minds to cope with the 21st century challenges.

Addressing a roundtable conference here, the federal minister said that all the public sector universities, institutions of education and leading private schools do have potential to promote education, however there was need to develop the curriculum with consensus so that it may have an ownership.

He said, the curriculum should lead towards producing creative and analytical minds and encourage critical thinking. He said, in this era of knowledge economy, intellectual capital power and brain power determine future of a nation.

The minister deplored that currently we have lost the epistemology i.e observation and reason which is basics of education and knowledge.

He said, the existing educational system does...