Change Kapil Sibal from education! Create two ministers, for education and the Universities! No one Indian university in the world’s top 100 universities, you know? Yet, no one, let alone the Prime Minister or others mention this disgraceful fact anywhere. Not even in the numerous convocation addresses! Indian character is notorious to talk smooth, indulge…
Category: Education
Kapil Sibal is a disaster!
What is happening in education? Or for that matter in his new assignment, telecom? We need a healthy debate in education! Why, even on sports, culture and media etc.! There is a hell of a noise and much on the coming cricket cup series and already much money and much hype are made of the…
A college degree doesn’t ensure middle class status?
Says Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman! Education for all? Yes! But only at the elementary and secondary levels, may be! Higher education for all? No, not needed! Education in India is now an obsession with all classes. The rich seeks it for status. The middle classes die for it. The poor are arm-twisted by middle…
Shame on America!
Radio tags to Indian students shows American culture’s limitations! It is an insult not just to Indian youngsters but also to the rest of the world. An insult to human dignity and a lack of decency and much else in general American behaviour. So, after all America is a very different country and culture? Yes,…
Our education!
Lack of direction, lack of leadership! This generation’s education is changing! It is a challenging task also! Education debate in the country is still narrow. Narrow focused. It is all about everyone getting educated. There is a new awareness across all classes and all communities that an education, in the English medium is the best…
Kapil Sibal is a disaster!
What is happening in education? Or for that matter in his new assignment, telecom? We need a healthy debate in education! Why, even on sports, culture and media etc.! There is a hell of a noise and much on the coming cricket cup series and already much money and much hype are made of the…
Barack Obama talks of education, often!
In India no one talks of education! Why? Our leaders engaged in other activities? See what is the state of India as a country and people? In the UK the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister both talk of education! For the Liberal Democrats education is an article of a creed, a faith! Of course,…
Secondary education
Why we need idealist schools/experimental schools? Just now I was going through an old review article, written by A.J.Ayer, the reputed Oxford philosopher in an old issue of the Encounter, and then edited by the poet Stephen Spender. I was an old-time admirer of Spender in those times and also an ardent reader of the…