India, April 27 -- The National Progressive Schools' Conference (NPSC) entered the second day of its 52nd iteration, taking forward this year's message of "conflict management and peace education in schools".

The second day started with a light-hearted performance by ventriloquist, Santhosh - known for his work in the field of puppetry and story-telling - which was followed by an address by Sudhanshu Trivedi, member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.

Trivedi said teachers are architects of the society's future. "The pivotal people in this journey forward are school children, whose mindset and orientation are yet to be decided.Knowledge without proper direction can have disastrous results," the MP said.

The next session was an expert dialogue ...