Hassan Rouhani who was addressing a meeting of university professors in the ceremony held to honor the select teachers and university professors in Shahid Beheshti Hall of the president’s office, said that the government saw the sanctions as ‘a great injustice and a bane for the nation.’
“However, some parties in the country would welcome sanctions as boon for their partisan interests. They do not know what sanctions mean for the economy; it means that we could not export or import goods, or have to pay multiple times as much as the original price for a certain good,” Rouhani told the meeting.
“Sanctions meant, for our academic centers, deprivation of our professor from worlds prestigious academic institutions services and contacts; these specific parties even are disturbed when a professor speak to their colleagues overseas in a, say, foreign universities,” Rouhani asserted.
Rouhani believed that in today’s world, “teaching students the true and accurate methods of studying should define the function of a professor or mentor, and teaching method to students is key to learning; as an individual who has been teaching for years, I believe that our universities should abandon unnecessary emphasis on ‘degree’ as sole criterion of and test of knowledge.”
Rouhani also believed that universities should focus mainly on research. “Our education system requires drastic reforms so that it could be effective in producing wealth, adding to national power, and improving quality of public life,” he asserted.
“We should feel that there is something wrong and disturbing in the system for any reform, to implement of what I invest much hope on you as teachers,” Rouhani said.
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