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    "content": "research differently is what is contested for by this Motion. We should look at research differently and inculcate research on ourselves right from the very beginning; the way we model our education and its structure and the tools we use in our education system. This should encourage our students to be innovative. I am aware, for example, that in Japan, the tools that we use in nursery schools are ball bearings. These are the tools that are used by the children in the school. You can do anything with the ball bearings; you can arrange them in any order and form patterns. These are the kind of things that we want to inculcate in our education system so that our minds are jogged to begin to be innovative. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also important to make research a rewarding activity. That, therefore, calls upon us to re-look at legislation that is governing royalties and intellectual property rights so that there is some reward in research apart from just getting a promotion. At the moment, I am aware that in this country, you probably do research in order to publish and be promoted. Thereafter, the research is stored and never used again. We have to come out of this and apply research in our own individual lives. There are many areas in which we can do this. There are things that are changing daily that we need to do research on. One of them is environmental change. There is so much that is happening in the environmental arena that unless we start to do research, we may become extinct very soon because we may not be able to understand how the environment is affecting our lives. This is a very important Motion that I would urge those who are going to speak to it, to look at it positively and consider the long-term benefits of conducting research and probably looking at research differently. I beg to second the Motion."
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