A large group of university chancellors, professors, researchers and superior students met Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, on Thursday, December 16...
A large group of university chancellors, professors, researchers and superior students met Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, on Thursday, December 16.
The participants at the meeting expressed their views on different issues related to universities, particularly research, cultural and educational issues.
The academics stressed the need for an improvement in the country's educational system, the allocation of more research funds to universities, and the formulation of a scientific and research strategy for the country's future. They also insisted on Iranian nation's right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
Speaking at the meeting, the Leader expressed pleasure over his talks with the academics and educational elite and considered scientific progress the main factor contributing to the country's development. He emphasized that more efforts should be made to internalize various braches of knowledge and different sciences in the country and to introduce innovations in scientific arenas.
Ayatollah Khamenei further noted that scientific progress is contingent on efficient management and supervision and on a sound educational strategy. He referred to the great talents and abundant resources existing in the country and called for appropriate planning in the field of university education with the objective of identifying, training and employing educational elite and superior students. The Leader considered the formation of the Educational Elite Foundation a positive step in this direction.
Elsewhere in his statements, the Leader of the Islamic Republic noted that there is a spirit of commitment among academics toward various issues in the country, including social issues. He said that more measures should be taken to further strengthen this sense of commitment.
Ayatollah Khamenei also hinted at the fact that divine and monotheistic ideologies are quite compatible with science, and that Islam has earnestly called for pursuing different branches of knowledge. He stressed that this attitude, unlike the attitude held by the Western world which believes in the incompatibility between religion and science, is quite beneficial to the promotion of science in society and to the country's scientific progress and development.
The Leader pointed out that the Islamic Revolution infused the Iranian nation and the youth of the country with self-confidence and self-reliance. He added that the country's scientific progress and the achievements made over the past 25 years are all indebted to this sense of self-reliance.