Poetry reading should be compulsory part of curriculum: Naidu
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday urged schools to make poetry a compulsory part of the curriculum, saying it can be a powerful tool for social transformation.
Emphasising that peace is a pre-requisite for progress, the vice president said that poetry can be a powerful medium to secure peace, happiness, brotherhood and harmony.
"I urge schools to make poetry reading and appreciation a compulsory part of the curriculum.
"I also ask universities to encourage literature, arts and humanities education. We need poets and writers and artists and singers as much as we need doctors, engineers and scientists," Naidu said while addressing the valedictory programme of the 39th World Congress of Poets here.
He said, poetry should promote peace, motivate people to cultivate universal brotherhood, social harmony and tolerance.
"Poetry can serve as a powerful catalyst that could hasten the process of social transformation," said Naidu.
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