then i came to know about this site through one of my friends so i am leaving a link so that you can check them

http://www.ginindia.com

Lately, I have been visiting various universities in USA in the process of figuring out the best school to pursue my MBA. All universities I visited were started around 100 to 200 years ago. After visiting them, I started concluding…

I think the beginning years, post-1947, were most important. There were other much capable men with vision and drive who should have been appointed the Education minister but Nehru unfortunately appointed his lifelong crony, the Muslim fundamentalist Maulana Azad as Indias first education minister.

I think the decline began with this nihilist decision made by Nehru in the very beginning years of Indian independence. As more is learned about this Maulana with the passing of time, he comes out not just a fundamentalist but also a very deceptive charlatan.

In 1985, Rajiv Gandhi created a stalinist style HRD ministry and all hopes for vision and educational reform died permanently. Our education system now lies firmly in the grasp of babus who have mugged text books all their lives. They cannot be expected to have any vision to affect any change or reform. Our minds on the other hand is firmly in the grasp of the communist-muslim combine who write all the textbooks being read in our cbse run schools.

Unless the teachers are paid well enough – people like me would feel inhibition in going for it – …

Atanu’s response: The school is named after the company which started the school for benefit of its expatriates who were working in Pune. As it happens, the company is an engineering firm, which makes cars among other things.

First: Its not just India where there is much hand-wringing about education. practically, every day in the New York Times, there is a op-ed about the deplorable state of education in the US. world-over, there seems to be concern about education although of course the nature of the problems vary.

Second: There seems to be rich irony in the fact that IB schools in India are importing teachers from UK and US while Indians are tutoring students in America over the Internet!

The other side:
Here’s a detailed story on the Mid-day meal schemes across India.

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2016/stories/20030815002208500.htm

Trivia: The GOI pays Re.1 per student.per day to the state government for implementing the Mid day meal scheme. The remaining part of the meal is financed by the state govt.

I know a personal example, my wife did her M.Sc.Education from the Regional Insitute of Education Mysore and then joined a college in Hyderabad to teach Chemistry to the B.Sc. students. She joined at a salary of Rs. 2,400 and four years later it was Rs. 2,800 !!

No wonder she gave up on her idealism and the long hours and went ahead and did an MBA.

A nation where undergraduate BPO workers get paid more than post graduate teachers is a time bomb waiting to happen…!

Among all the subjects in secondary school until class X, the one receiving the shabbiest treatment is History. This is true across boards – CBSE, ICSE, state boards. The aim is simply to regurgitate voluminous junk, and spit out numerous bullet points verbatim. There is not even a token pretense of debating issues, making educative comparisons, and creative exploration. With our IT and science mania, this important subject is completely neglected. Later in life, IT actually becomes a blessing for the curious, as the web allows us to so easily explore what we aren’t taught.

A huge missing component in the Indian school curriculum is Music. All prestigous intellectual schools in Europe have mandatory instruction in Music, and it shows. We don’t necessarily need to ape the west and learn western classical music (though its not a bad idea at all!). Our own Indian classical music is replete with brilliance, inspiration, and math.

Atanu’s response: Nath, I am afraid that “the sheer volume of mindless work” instills mindless work habit, not “useful work habits.” Mindless practise can only lead to mindless outcomes, otherwise we would not be calling them mindless and instead call them useful.

Maybe the top of the heap that comes out of the Indian educational system can be compared favorably to the top of the heap of other educational systems. But the merits of these outliers cannot be employed to justify the proposition that on average the Indian educational system is working for the children of India.

Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Random Education Thoughts writes about his thoughts after visiting one of the most expensive schools of India. I would describe the Mercedes Benz International School in Pune to be the Rolls-Royce of schools in…

It also reminded me of the following anonymous quote –

If you are planning for a year, sow rice, if you are planning for a decade, plant trees, if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Atanu’s response: Vikram, I had used that quote in my post “Education for a Nation” which started off with

An old Chinese saying (I assume all Chinese sayings are old except the ones that come from the little Red Book) goes:

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

In the context of development, I think the last bit should be “if you are planning for a nation, educate people.” Especially, primary education. For among all the factors that are necessary for economic development, none is so basic as primary education for a nation. Primary education is the essential basic public good engredient without which there is no known receipe for development.

The myths of education are too well documented for me to elaborate here. And yet, majority of the country will choose to blame parents of kids when they drop out of schools. .. sigh.