Category: Education

Education, ethics and money! A fatal combination? Yes, it seems so. The state of Indian education is very depressing. There is a steady quantitative expansion of education at all levels. This is a positive development. While there is a steady decline in quality, again, at all levels too! Quantitative expansion has happened thanks to a…

That is what India needs at the moment!  Internationally comparable standards! In general education and medical education too! See the appalling public health, in Gorakhpur and even in other states! Swine flu threat is also spreading! Education is a public cause, not a private profit! Indian character needs introspection! We are talkers, not doers! How…

Yes, say many: thinkers and others! What about the Indian people? The ordinary citizens and the elite? Yes, there are solid reasons for a New Optimism in India! Of course we need to think much more on positive lines! The media is getting strengthened! See Al Jazeera TV Channel! The number one TV news Channel…

The world’s first civilization in classical Greece! That gave birth to democracy first! Yes, the visit I had the good fortune to undertake, after a life-long quest and seeking, not just opened my eyes, the visit made me dumb-struck for days and, it looks, even by months! The one side is that I don’t know…

Why education is boring and dull! It needn’t be! We, Indians are accustomed to reading English books written by the Brits, right?  That is our legacy! This is not a book review. This page is an outcome of reading an old book that remains a classic and that too in the field of education. C.E.M….

But the ministers, policy makers turn it into a consumer product The rest of the crowd, the private sector educators and the money-minting machines turn it into a fast moving consumer goods sector! Is this all about education we have got to say? You see we are at this sector, at this journal for the…

We live in a globalised world, right? What is the future of global civilisation, if at all? After the ‘Decline and Fall of Roman Civilisation’, what are the new features of a civilized world? What would shape man’s hopes for a better style of living? Is a more equal world, a more equitable world possible?…

That is what those committed to education must be worried about! We live in exciting times, right? Even the kids are playing with iPads! The very small ones talk of so many things, about dinosaurs, DNA and what not! We just now read about a news item on how pre-school kids read about fictional characters,…