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Education’s unfinished agenda!

Posted on November 12, 2005October 12, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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!…

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Exam-driven schools, Schoolheads show Hostility to new knowledge! To outside knowledge!

Posted on November 4, 2005 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Do Union Education Ministers write letters?

Posted on October 12, 2005October 12, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Engineering and medical education

Posted on July 12, 2005October 12, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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…

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Education for all: Attainable Objective?

Posted on June 5, 2005October 12, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

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,…

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What makes for good schools?

Posted on June 5, 2005October 12, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

Schools occupy the minds of parents, thinkers and governments as the very basis of a civilized society.  No country underrates the importance of educating their children.  There are advanced countries like the European nations and the USA where schooling evokes strong feelings of warmth and fierce criticisms.  Warmth as schools gives families and children that…

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Classics on education

Posted on April 6, 2004April 9, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

What was ancient Indian education like? It is a million pities that a modern Indian is very much aware-let alone proud-of India’s heritage. In the long process of assimilation of foreign influences we have lost our own identity. After nearly half a century of freedom our educated minds are not free from foreign ideas and…

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Delhi Schools blamed for high fees

Posted on April 6, 2004April 9, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

How true? And how justified this criticism? Everywhere school fees are rising. Why not? That’s how school managements justify the fee hikes in the face of rising costs. While this doesn’t make use in our dailies, in Delhi the school fee hike is a raging public debate.

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V. Isvarmurti is a leading public figure from south of India. He is a former member of the then Madras Legislative Council. He had his education at such reputed institutions like Tagore’s Santiniketan and Oxford University. Read More

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