American Indian academic on Indian education Prof.Devesh Kapur expresses disappointment on education. He warns about how we can’t take the middle class euphoria seriously. The middle class could be progressive at some time but other times it could easily turn into a reactionary force. So, one has to educate the middle class opinions in the…
Category: Education
How Britisher’s view point
An Indian point of view also! This is the first time since US President Barack Obama came to power that an international investigation is made by the UN anti-torture watchdog about the widespread use of torture by the US government against helpless victims like prisoners, alleged terrorists and many other citizens in the name of…
How to lay the Macaulay Ghost?
Medium of education in mother tongue? Medium of education compulsory or voluntary? Who has the fundamental right to choose? Parents, state governments or the courts? There is a 5-judge Constitution Bench enquiring the matter! There is the Karnataka High Court order not to close down a 104 year old Kannada medium school! Medium of education…
Education of the people, the aam aadmi!
Education of public opinion! Aam Aadmi Party: before and after the Delhi Dharna! An appeal to the Indian middle classes and the Indian youth! Is this the Indian democracy you wanted? To fight corruption and usher in good governance? This is not a political journal. This is an education journal. As such we have to…
Come friends one and all!
We welcome the educators and friends from far and wide! Readers would have found in the last few months once again we are reaching out to friends and educators from far and wide. There are now more features and more coverage of schools and education from across the country as well from across the seas…
There is no rest on the education front!
Education is a continuous process! America is undergoing peculiar distortions in its national outlook! It is tie Indians build an Indian education brand! Education is no more an ideal and an imaginative field. Yes, you need ideas and philosophies. Every thinker is an educator. This is history. Rousseau started out as an art it rather…
What is education?
Education is what it does, right? Education must define an individual’s moral calibre? Indian character and its moral disabilities. Two aspects of education. One, what is the intrinsic meaning or value of education? The second aspect is what is education is actual life? What it does for us? How it helps us to make way…
What are new ideas in education today?
Who thinks afresh in education? In India? In the USA? Each country and culture has its own challenges and opportunities? Readers this time would find on the other page, an edited version of an interview with Mechelle Rhee, a South Korean American lady of high intelligence and grit, who is an education director of schools,…