Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said the country's education system must foster creativity to create a generation of entrepreneurs in the country.

"Humans are born entrepreneurs. Yet, our education system creates job seekers. It is a flawed education system," the Chief Adviser said Wednesday while he was visiting the Education Ministry at the Bangladesh Secretariat in the city.

"We should reform the education system in a way that it creates a generation of entrepreneurs. We need education, which helps students become creative people. Our young people must fulfil their creative potential," he said.

The Chief Adviser chaired his first Cabinet meeting at the Secretariat and later visited the Education Ministry.

He said Bangladesh should not create an education system that emphasises only test scores.

"The perception that test score is everything must go," Prof Yunus said.

He also called for narrowing generational gaps in Bangladeshi society, saying the country must understand the language of the new generation - their aspirations and their thought process.

"We must understand the language and the thought process of the youth. We need to know how the older generation can share their experience with the younger generation," he said.

"The distance between young and old generations gets bigger; it will create troubles. We must minimise the idea gaps between generations,"
the chief adviser said.

He stressed the need to foster family values in national curricula.

Education Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud and Education Secretary Siddiq Jobaer were present during the Chief Adviser's meeting with senior education ministry officials.