Scientists, writers or leaders? India is a land of Gandhi. It is a matter of great pride to Indians that at least this year, the Nobel Foundations felt constrained to publicly confess it was a mistake on the Nobel Committee not to have given the Peace Nobel to Gandhi. Why? This question is not asked…
Category: Education
Let us understand the dynamics of societies!
An unequal and inequitous society? Our society is inegalitarian; hierarchical only! Only social sciences can give us that rare insight into human behaviour,human psychology and also much of the social dynamics without which we can’t talk possibly with any deeper sense about the future. A new Liberalism in times of so much terror and destruction…
Education’s current priorities!
Winston Churchill dropped! British curriculum doesn’t teach about him! What about teaching at least the current history? The latest terrorist attacks in Glasgow only highlights the new phenomenon. The Indian born, young doctors were implicated in the new terrorist threats. While terrorism is a serious threat to a peaceful world,terrorists among the well-educated and motivated…
Education’s priorities!
Education’s current priorities! Education is not one word! It is a multi-layered concept. So,you can’t grasp the meaning and its reach in any easy way. Education has now acquired a much more complex meaning and significance. Education is a continuous process,its reach is enormous,it effects basic changes in societies and nations! We live in a…
How US textbooks distort India?
American elementary and secondary schools show India in a bad light! USA is home to some strong 80,000 odd Indian students, some 20 lakh well-earning Indian families. Every other American worker or an expert must know how the Indian brainpower moves some of the biggest American enterpprises. So, the current negative perceptions of Indians taught…
Arjun Singh must go! He messed up higher education!
What is a political reality is now entangled in a complex judicial web! It is time Mr.Arjun Singh, the HRD, minister makes way for a new comer! Indian education caught in a man-made crisis! Indian education system is something gigantic by world standards. It caters to a billion population. India is also a young country….
Higher education is in crisis and confusion!
Our morale is so low! Yes, we are now in the midst of a terrible crisis and confusion in our higher education sector. On the one side is the government with no plan. On the other is the new breed of education exploiters who fleece the poor and the middle classes! Now come the foreign…
Public Schools? Where are they? What use they have?
Do they produce leaders? Not anymore! With all pretensions of a public school education, the neavou riche and the old families too stick to an ever-constant Indian prototype. The students are all driven by the predominant middle class aspirations of IIT/IMM/competitive education. The new generation Marwari/Punjabi parents might opt for a family business. Even here…