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In every country in the world there is an “access axis” that dominates education policy. There is a powerful coalition focusing on “business-as-usual” expansion of existing systems. The temptations are near irresistible: politicians get to hire more teachers, contractors get to build more build ....Read more

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Education mess IVBy: Dr.G.Srinivasan | Monday , 6 Jul '09 5:55:59 AM Reply | Forward The mere introduction of the word educational reform suggests that all is not well with education!!! The prioritization is a must for policy makers. Indians were kept out of decent education and an ID card for the past sixty and odd post independent era by a so called socialistic system .Which should get priority ?ID card or education ? The answer is obvious. But both will be a waste in one of the most corrupt systems if there is no proper checks and balances. If I am able to think clearly and coherently it is because of the education I received and not because of the literacy.So education bereft of moral values or value based education will e worth nothing and a colossal waste. So instead of tinkering with a system which produced many educated people who are in different parts of the world functioning as good useful citizens .The people should think of the same good quality education with minor upgradation accessible to all!! This does not require anything except common sense

Education mess IIIBy: Dr.G.Srinivasan | Monday , 6 Jul '09 5:37:38 AM Reply | Forward THE SSA is a populist measure which may or may not have an impact and cannot be taken as a model unless it has proven efficacy. The people who are at the helm recently wanted to scrap the board exams for secondary education because it was traumatic!!!!Spiting the face because we do not like the nose!!! That shows scant regard for scientific understanding !!! The middle order is dominated by inefficient fat arrogant bureaucracy which is probably not existent anywhere in the world.They throw spanners in the assembly !!!! In fact most of these people who manage education do not know anything about rural poverty and the abjectness of it nor have they worked in rural areas for a single day. So the people who do not have education are at the receiving end of it and the people who manage have literacy but no education !!!Somebody could have thought of this than going for an expensive smart ID card system !!! Then what happens to the unsmart /silly ID card system we had previously?Waste ?

Education mess IIBy: Dr.G.Srinivasan | Monday , 6 Jul '09 5:20:48 AM Reply | Forward India did an experiment in satellite education , but the results of which are probably not analyzed, making it a costly exercise. But now that we have internet and computers we can effectively utilize this to provide both conventional education and vocational one at the same time. India is at an advantageous position to give mass education effectively and wonderful teaching through computers. Call it e learning or whatever. This has to strike a cord in the minds of politicians who are computer illiterate!!!! To give generously to people and the best thing you can give comes from a broad mind which is rare among the political class!!! And though Socialism in fact tries to iron out the differences in society it actually does the opposite because the root cause of this is jealousy towards the better and affluent. However the best education to those who had been deprived of for thousands of years can only be achieved by being innovative and that lies in bridging the digital divide.

Education mess IBy: Dr.G.Srinivasan | Monday , 6 Jul '09 5:09:06 AM Reply | Forward This is one of the areas where Statistics could be lies lies and damned lies.First of all there is a glaring deficit of teachers in both urban and rural alike because of the misconstrued and mis-executed policies of so called socialism, which was a failure for the past sixty years.You need to only read "Ayn Rand classics" to imagine what could have happened in the past to realise the flaws of few people who dominate the public thinking .India is not a democracy in the truest sense nor does the politician think about people. This divide makes them play with statistics as well as with peoples lives for decades on end /without end. Education for everybody is a good thing especially primary education and India is short of good teachers. This is a fact which most of us know and accept.To be a leader and not copy slavishly the people who dwell in education should be innovative.At no time in the past did any country had the opportunity to reach out to remote areas.