TEHRAN, May 4 (MNA) � Iran�s president has called the establishment for �restoration of confidence on university professors.�
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 professors would have no secret information to act as a spy for foreigners. �Their DNA is wired with suspicion of everything. I would tell them let us restore confidence on the country�s professors and academicians; let come and let them find contacts in order to learn more; let them go forward; I was said some day that one of these hard-wired masters of doubt believed that we should have the English language not taught; I believe these ideas dangerous,� he said.

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.

By Mehr News Agency

 

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