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“We don’t want to learn. We want to pass,” he said.

The issue should be addressed at the earliest stage, starting with kindergarten-aged children, Mominul said, adding most students at the time of their enrolment at universities “forget how to learn and only concentrate on having a good CGPA.”

Rounding up the discussion, Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, said youths should learn from incidents in their daily lives to augment their strength and build confidence to achieve future goals.

“Pick those incidents that re-emphasise, re-energise and reiterate your strengths,” he said, adding, “You accumulate them, and then you realise that you are quite a strong person.”

Mahfuz Anam said the present world has two types of people -- talkers and doers.

“Unfortunately, most role models that you’ll have in Bangladesh are talkers,” he said, “Unless the talk are backed by hard work, those are just empty words.”

Ayman Sadiq, chief everything officer, 10 Minute School; Suraya Jahan, head of programmes, English Education and Skills, British Council, and Sohel Iqbal, director of education at US Embassy spoke at the discussion among others.