There is in England today a debate on what they call a cultural war in teaching British history. British slave ownership, 800,000 Africans who were legally owned, were freed by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. This history has raised a new debate new culture war in Britain today. Two years ago there was this…
Category: Education
Is education a business pursuit or a collective call for finding our destinies or destinations?
Education becoming a business! This trend is not a happy development. There are very many diverse sides to education, culture, and our own destinies.Do you know the size of the Indian education market size?Every day you almost see the front pages of the mainstream newspapers, both the print and the online media ads, and other…
RADICAL THOUGHTS FOR HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION!
DISRUPTION OF EDUCATION IN THE WORLDYOUTH OF THIS GENERATION CAUGHT IN A WEBALL ARE QUESTIONS! NO EASY ANSWERS! The unending lockdowns keep everyone, the kids, and parents indoors, and there doesn’t seem to be an early end to this continuing disruption and no light at the end of the tunnel. Even the best of medical…
Who are the educators today?
Where are they and what are they doing? Education for democracy must be our goal!Our education must build a robust democracy!Now we are ranked, not as a big democracy!But a flawed democracy, you know? Corona virus and our current education practices are a deadly combination! There is an undeclared lockdown whose timing and extent is…
In the name of education, what are we all doing? Where is India going?
As per the latest authoritative report in the London Financial Times newspaper (dated. 22, April, 2020), students from India, to be exact 2,11,015, migrated to the USA, UK, and other countries like Australia and Canada for higher education. This is not a one-off event but a trend that is going on for years. And because…
Indian higher education has a task to perform
To make India a global power It is time that Indian education has to get out of the colonial bondage. We have to reverse the mass migration of Indian students to the UK and USA and waste precious foreign exchange. Let us create many institutions of international specialised studies. Do you know how many Indian…
Let us teach culture and values in our schools and colleges
We need to recast our humanities education to revamp Indian attitudes and character. The British legacy seems to have had not a so positive an impact. We have not become a self confident nation! Not yet. Why this is relevant today? Education at present in India is stagnant. Why we say so? We see this…
Education in a non liberal society
Our education status today! Many of us, why, even the majority of us, as a society are not, or don’t make, an open society, right? By this, what do we mean? See the recent controversy that broke out over the making of an indigenous vaccine for e.g. Covid 19. Discovering an India made vaccine must…