Why India is India? - The Education System

When we started our journey in a new direction in 1947, a direction which we could choose, I don't believe we chose the right one. Though I am not an expert in these matters, I think, from the very first day we started with pretext in mind that India is an agricultural country. Nothing wrong in it, absolutely, but what it did, it narrowed our vision for the future.

So, when you start with such a myopic view, it shifts attention from other aspects of development and it included education. India did its own bit in promoting education, established IITs, IIMs, IISc but where it didn't focus was primary education. That is one aspect of it, and even after 60 years of independence we are no where close to saying that everyone gets primary education in India. Is it so tough a philosophy to propogate.

Why I think primary education is important because it is the first stone of any developing country. If a large number of population is not educated to a basic level, how are you going to promote any thing related to technology even if you have narrowed focus. That kind of supports the fact that India took more than 20 years to start Green Revolution and even though it was a great move, there wasn't a lot of acceptability and a lot of time was required to make people understand why it is better than what they were doing earlier.

(not complete, to be contd...)