So, why not Rahul Gandhi too? Rahul Gandhi had again spoken. This time on education. In Parliament. His speech was watched and applauded by ‘Mummy’, sister, brother in law and the ‘Daddy’s old pals, Suman Dubey and Romi Chopra. TN leaders, Karunanidhi “had been moved to tears by the speech and CM J mocked him…
Category: Education
Why I remain unimpressed by our scientists!
They may be intelligent and clever.They are also cunning and quite callous too! Yes, I know what protests I would invite if I say this! We have great scientists and technologists.Nobel Prizes are not alien to Indian science. All these are known and widely publicised and we often pat ourselves what we have achieved.My only…
Inequality in education: can we avoid it ?
Class divisions in education: we are just silent! Equality is a great illusion! In India we have been fed by our leaders from the Freedom struggle days that we will create a democracy and there will be equality of opportunities for all. Yes, our Constitution is a great document and it had proved its worth….
Education’s unfinished agenda!
Middle In equality? Poverty? Or, denial of freedoms? You can’t have everything in life, can you? Life doesn’t offer you too many choices, does it? Have you ever thought of these questions, do you? Yes, there is too much poverty in the world, in India! There is too much inequality, in the world, in India!…
Exam-driven schools, Schoolheads show Hostility to new knowledge! To outside knowledge!
Over- schooling is killing students and teachers! Bureaucratisation of school education had reached its limit in India.So too the minds of students,teachers and parents in the unshakeable government fixed school texts,exams etc. The other day we visited a well-established school in a district suburb.There was also a National Award won Headmaster in the car.When we…
Do Union Education Ministers write letters?
Macualay Ghost still dominates Indian Education? Yes,ever since I bought the hardcover edition of Akio Morita’s”Made in Japan”,way back in 1985 or so, I was drawn to Morita’s story. I remember the day when the Janata party was in power in Delhi. I one day went to see the education minister Dr.P.C. Chundar. Now his…
Engineering and medical education
The trends and the tensions! Nearly 1 million engineering graduates and others are now being employed in the IT industry in India. This is expected to go up fast, given the projections for the IT potential in the coming years. He says it is the small start-ups, by unknown names and faces in Bangalore that…
Education for all: Attainable Objective?
When the current regime assumed office in Delhi with Deve Gowda at the helm, there was some noise about making education for all a reachable goal by 2000 AD. Under Gujral, this goal seems to have receded to the background. No one talks of education these days. Education at any time is a boring subject,…