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…
Category: Education
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,…
What makes for good schools?
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…
Classics on education
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…
Delhi Schools blamed for high fees
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.
Education orthodoxy questioned
Is there anything called pure education? Education standards as such can’t do much to improve the standards of living or the quality of living. For the later virtues we have to search for salvation, not in education but in economics and culture. Here in a perceptive review of an education report just published in the…