The short-term and the long-term in education! What do we, the general public, think of education as parents and citizens? We are deeply moved to see that in Britain school children marched with placards to say: politicians! don’t spoil our future! By your narrow, short term agendas! Save the planet, save the future, save the…
Category: Education
Delhi’s Kafkaesque Schools
Let us liberalise the private sector in school education to create new types of secondary education that gives Indian school’s system to promote more quality schools! Yes, this is how the senior most and much-respected civil servant, Rahul Khullar describes the Schools scenario in New Delhi. He has in effect pleaded for allowing the high-fee…
Education growth in India
Quantity, commercialisation and sheer money drives growth,also greedy money-seekers! Education Policy making is in Limbo! Higher education or any other stage of education is highly profitable! There is a very short introduction to education,universities and colleges before me. Great names have been here for ages.Yes,even if we leave out the old names, honorary names, Plato’s…
Let our schools do sciences this way!
Let them read the autobiography of the Indian Nobel Prize winner Venkat Ramakrishnan! The book’s name: Gene Machine – The race to decipher the secrets of the ribosome. The book reads like a thriller. The recent autobiography of Venkat Ramakrishnan, Venki to his friends and admirers, the latest winner of the Nobel Prize (for discovering…
Education must have an integrated concept of education, health and environment
Our education eco-system is superficially constructed. Only the skimpy part, the cash-exchange surface is cared about. Yes, what do we care for when we talk of education? It is the money part, the immediate cash-exchange we seem to care about. Otherwise, who cares for the children in their early years? As per the Global Nutrition…
Why Classical Education?
Thoughts and thought processes after visiting Rome and Greece historic sites! It is a strange thought and yet it is a thought that I would like to register in the minds of Indians and also for others who might be interested in the study of classical world of Greece and Rome. Classical education at Oxford…
What is the meaning of education?
What chance for quality education? Commercialisation of education and the rise of private sector education are having a negative impact! What the money-makers-turned educators say! Yes, everyday there are nowadays, almost everyday, there are educational ads in the newspapers, more so recently on the TV screens as well. More and more news-turned advertisements on education…
Education in the times of uncertain national goals
What happens when democratic governments led to many populist schemes? Is it okay when the government begins to distribute freebies, be it colour TV sets or wet grinders, cash handouts to win elections? There would be widespread corruption and mis-management of affairs. Already we have seen how the high and mighty has fallen? The Chief…