Raises very disturbing questions! 300 academics and seven long months. And now we have a New Curriculum Framework of 125 pages dense text! Globalisation had accelerated the process of Westernisation, modernisation and also make us to face the knowledge acquisition an international type of using reason and science and the tools of knowledge like logic…
Happiness and money. What makes people happy?
Can education give us happiness? Nature, the most respected high science research journal of some 200 odd years old is a delightful tool for knowledge. Our Central government has constituted a Knowledge Commission! We are not sure who conceived the idea! Whoever had conceived it,the Commission has a daunting task to provide India and the…
What to teach in our schools? Universities?
We should teach India’s place in the world! There seems to be utter confusion in education sector. Policy makers seem helpless! Even the initial noises seem to have died! Yes, the statistics and budgets are on paper. On the ground nothing is happening! Once a while it is nice to stand up and have a…
Buy more books for public libraries!
Buy more foreign magazines for libraries! Free speech, free press? Good questions, good rhetoric. Somehow, there are obstacles in India too much! Citizens empowerment is a concept that had not received the attention of our politicians. Our people must be enabled to read more good books,read more latest serious foreign journals.That is the only way…
What to teach in our schools? Universities?
We should teach India’s place in the world! India is now an Independent country for over half a century. And yet what India we Indians all have as a country, as a people as an independent identity? What our children, from the children at the nursery stage, at the high school stage, at the college…
US-bound Indians growing!
Manhattan Indians and ‘illegal Indian aliens’! We read so often about tapping the talents of Indians living in America. Dr.Manmohan Singh, our Prime Minister had in his wisdom constituted one more Commission, this time, it is Knowledge Commission! High sounding? Yes, it is! What is it by the way? No one knows for sure. It…
Prof.Krishna Kumar on Indian education
Prof.Krishna Kumar is a retired Delhi university professor of education. He is currently the Arjun Singh nominee as the Director of National Council for Education(NCERT). He along with Prof.Yashpal are charged with revamping the School Curriculum. Both are eminently suited to the job. Let us hope they succeed where others, other angels and devils failed!…
A second language is a secure job!
So, teach more foreign languages! The world is changing. More wealth is being created now than in any previous generations. More Indian families are migrating toforeign countries. So, be prepared. That is the message.A report in the American press brings home the latest need for more new language speaking persons. One car distribution firm in…