What Will It Take to Achieve Universal Quality Education?
Business Today › January 12, 2006
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A colleague in office coughs up Rs 20,000 per month as school fees-for he wants his child in a school with great infrastructure, access to all kinds of sports and art, access to internet and technology; and the school claims to build leaders of tomorrow. For some parents, a school's board examination result is the primary measure of quality. Many families consider the rigour and discipline of convent education as the benchmark; others aspire to send their children to English-medium schools.
Given such diversity of aspirations, what form of quality education should we attempt to universalise? To build universal perspective on quality education, it is important to understand quality, not in the context of varied individual desires, but in the context of the kind of society India aspires to be. Let me explain.See the full content of this document
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What Will It Take to Achieve Universal Quality Education?
India was born again in 1947 with the promise of democracy. The premise of democracy is that every citizen is intrinsically and equally worthy. It presumes that each person is independent in his/ her ability to think, act and live. It believes each citizen is capable of seeing the ethic of equity, the essentiality of diversity, the ethos of justice, and is, thus, driven to social action.
If education is charged with the aim of creating such a society, then one can arrive at the touchstones of quality-an education that is equitable; an education that helps children develop into independent thinkers, creator...See the full content of this document
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