New Delhi, Jan 9: Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said mind sports require support and encouragement on par with physical sports.
'No doubt, the physical body has its limitations but the mind has unlimited capacity and this has to be tapped to its full potential,' he said addressing a delegation of the World Memory Sports Council for India on its return after bagging the fourth place at the World Memory Championships held last month at Shenzen, China.
He was of the opinion that mind sports helped students and youngsters greatly in improving their concentration levels, creativity and contributed to achieving success in life.
'We need to move to analytical and logical thinking skills, not merely focus on rote learning and memorising.
Concept formation and understanding are important,' he said.
Emphasising the need of a holistic education system, he said rote mode of learning, high parental expectations, increasing competition and eagerness of educational institutions to get top rankers were causing stress and anxiety among students.
'It is really sad to come across reports of suicides by students, who are unable to cope with stress,' he noted, adding that the 'time has come for the institutions, governments and the society at large to prevent such suicides by extending support and comfort to distressed students. Under the rote system, they simply memorise to write examinations without understanding the basic concepts.'
The Vice-President said there was a need for every Indian to learn these memory techniques and practice these memory sports on regular basis to have a healthy state of mind. 'If students can learn and master memory techniques, they can work smarter and leave them with more time for other extra-curricular activities, thus ultimately contributing to their all-round development,' he said, an official statement here said. UNI
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