WUNRN
Tehran,
25 Jan. (AKI) - Iranian authorities are looking at new restrictions that will
create different school textbooks for boys and girls.
Ali Reza Ali Ahmadi, responsible to the interim public education minister, told
a seminar on textbooks there was a need to provide students with books
according to "the requirements of age and sex" to satisfy their
particular needs.
"The spiritual, physical, and mental needs of boys and girls are not
identical, and therefore textbooks that give them information cannot be the
same," Ali Ahmadi told the seminar.
"The goal is not, however, one that will discriminate against female
students but on the contrary give a more precise response to the needs of
students."
The education official asked textbook authors "not to photocopy western
textbooks, because our textbooks must only have space for our values and not
those of other cultures".
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