What is their impact on Indian Education? Excerpts from an autobiography Gopal Krishna Gokhale was a remark able Indian in his time.He was considered the greatest living Indian, said Annie Besant in a letter to Gokhale. Lord Curzon, the headstrong imperialist Viceroy wrote to his boss, the secretary of state that Gokhale was the most…
Category: Education
Emerging education tragedy!
We are destroying the core education values There is a need for a de-schooling movement today. To cut down the craze we see today, to get merged in the crowd, the migrate wherever there is money prospect. Do educators care for such core values? I don’t see anyone even bothering to ask questions. Neither they…
Arjun Singh’s education agenda!
A more broader agenda only can tackle the country’s education priorities. Mr. Arjun Singh the Union HRD minister is making a news! Unlike other Ministers, including the PM who are not seen or heard. Education priorities in India have got so distorted in India for so many wrong reasons many of the defeat of the…
Tele-medicine should reach India’s remote areas
Budget allocations for education and health Corporate hospitals. The budget makes generous allocations for education. But not enough for health. The allocations in the budget for national rural health mission allots more than just less than Rs. 2,000 more ( from Rs.8,420 crore to Rs.10,280 crore). We have a non-speaking Prime Minister and an over-talking…
Teach science or no education is simple ignorance!
Dangerous Asian bird flu threat! Yet we live in bliss! Already hit 3 countries! There are serious knowledge issues.Science only gives the students,more so the parents too,what is happening in the world.What is likely to happen in our own lives.We were happy to see that readers of the previous editorial in this place had taken…
Manmohan Singh Government has an education policy?
Education for All? In our lifetime? The Manmohan Singh Government is in office for more than four months The American Presidential candidates are debating face to face as we are writing this editorial! The Democratic candidate Kerry says that India is adding more graduates into its IT industry while America is doing nothing! Fine, even…
St.Stephen’s College and the alumni
Delhi bureaucratic class distort education values There was this column in a national newspaper, on Stephenians in Parliament. About the students of St.Stephen’s College in Delhi entering Parliament by one old student now serving the UN in New York and a talented writer. The column added some names that were not the college alumni! St.Stephen…
How to sensitize our teachers?
The world environment is so much damaging our sensitivities. Do we, as parents, teachers realise these developments? Are our children growing up in this environment of utter insensitivity? We are not sure how far the education community is sensitive to these questions. Consider some of the developments. September 11, commonly referred to as “9/11″ came,…