DUBAI: Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has urged countries to pay attention to providing education that meets the needs of gifted children.
The prime minister's wife said history had shown that countries that neglected education, particularly at an early stage, would eventually lag behind in terms of progress.
“If we miss out on helping the gifted and talented among us to grow, we'll suffer brain drain and lose out in the race to create transformational progress in our complex and technology-based environment,” she said in her keynote address at the 12th Asia Pacific Conference on Giftedness yesterday.
Rosmah was invited to the five-day conference because of her work with the Permata programme.
She said the perception that providing opportunities for gifted individuals would create elitism should be dispelled.
Malaysia, she said, had struck a balance between providing the best education for the gifted and talented and ensuring equal education opportunities for all students.
Rosmah added that it was imperative that different teaching and learning approaches in a conducive environment were put in place for them.
She drove home the point that education for the gifted, while emphasising and challenging them in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, must also ground them in the humanities and multilingual competency. - Bernama
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