THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Touring through the educational history of the state, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Kerala’s education sector, which is India’s best, can become the finest in the world.

“The big feats in Kerala’s education didn’t happen overnight. From a land where a majority was illiterate and some were not even allowed to study, to the achievements today, there have been multiple conscious interventions,” he said, after inaugurating the Vision 2031 one-day seminar organised by the education department at Tagore theatre on Monday.

The CM said shortcomings in the field must be addressed properly.

“Government schools with smart classrooms and robotic labs will no longer be an exaggeration,” he later noted on Facebook.

Stating that active discussions must be held to promote sports among children, General Education Minister V Sivankutty said children should not be denied their childishness.

Though the state has made notable achievements in education, he reiterated that special emphasis must be given to the education of disabled, tribal, coastal, and migrant children.

He also said topics like the growth of extreme nationalism, climate change, technology growth and its commercialisation, concepts like federalism and secularism should be kept in mind while having long-term plans about the state’s school education.

The seminar saw educationalists, academicians and industry experts talking about how the education field should progress.

The key discussions revolved around how professionalism should be developed among teachers.