Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAddressing the gathering, the President said that Mahatma\nGandhi was not just a great leader and visionary, he was one who personified\ncertain timeless ideals and values. We could place Gandhiji in a time machine\nand transport him to any period of human existence and we would find him to be\nrelevant. This is also true of the times we live in. Gandhiji remains extremely\nrelevant to our present day concerns such as need for peace and tolerance,\nterrorism and climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President said that the strife and violence that we see\nin the world today is often based in deep-rooted prejudices. These make us see\nthe world through the binary of \u201cus versus them\u201d. Following Gandhiji\u2019s\nfootsteps, we must let ourselves and our children interact and engage with those\nwhom we tend to define as \u2018them\u2019. Greater interaction is the best way to\ndevelop a sensitive understanding, which can help us overcome our prejudices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President said that education too can play an important\nrole in overcoming our prejudices. We need to evaluate and evolve the premise,\ngoals and structure of our education system. Education needs to go beyond mere\nliteracy. Education must facilitate and challenge the young to search deep\nwithin themselves and build their inner strength to sympathize or relate to the\nsuffering of others. We need to educate young people such that they can defy\nand transcend boundaries of class and race. We need them to be educated and\ncreative to find solutions to entrenched structural injustices and inequities.\nWe need an education that can touch our emotions and our spirits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President noted that this Conference has brought\ntogether youth leaders from around the world. He said that these youth leaders\nand millions of young men and women like them have the biggest stake in making\nour world kind, compassionate and peaceful. He expressed confidence that what\nthe youth leaders learn and experience in this Conference will inspire each one\nof them to be the ambassadors of kindness for rest of their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first World Youth Conference on Kindness is being\norganised by the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and\nSustainable Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development with the aim to\nimpart critical competencies (i.e. empathy, compassion, mindfulness and\ncritical inquiry) in global youth to inspire, empower and enable them to\ntransform themselves and build long-lasting peace in their communities. Youth\nleaders, representing over 27 countries, are participating in this Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the first World Youth Conference on Kindness in New Delhi on August 23, 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Addressing the gathering, the President said that Mahatma Gandhi was not just a great leader and visionary, he was one who personified certain timeless ideals and values. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[579],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-world-youth-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5263,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/5263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}