Anuradha Ma’am teaching civic class, 9B Circa 1998
Why is the right to education for all children under the age of 14 on the Directive Principles of State Policy and not a Fundamental Right?
Does it mean the government refuses to accept education as a fundamental right? Does making education a fundamental right automatically mean everyone will have access to it? How does matter to the government as to what education is – ain’t it imperative on the government’s part to ensure access to education for all? And probably it ain’t just access – maybe we would also need laws to enforce compulsory education for all.
And some twelve years later, Education does become a constitutional right!
PS: I am not expecting much immediately.But this shows a lot about our attitude. And hopefully things will fall in place.
but constitution safely refuses to recognise what *education* is.
ReplyDelete65% of the private-parterniship business run in TN are by english-illiterate people with less than 5th std *education*. Needless to say that they are more successful than their *educated* counterparts. :P
Asuri,
ReplyDeleteIf my memory serves me right, its at least a primary education guarantee (that is till class five).
Education and street smartness are different things. Education is not synonymous with the ability to converse in English. And the people you are talking about are what they are inspite of not being educated, and not because they are uneducated. My two cents on what it is worth. :)
right basic education is must..also about the point that the businesses run by illiterate people might be doing well cos they are street smart..but if it has to be sustainable then even those businesses will need educated people to support it.
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ReplyDeleteWC back. I keep visiting your blog for updates. Nice that you are now an alumnus of IIMC. Where to, now?
And I now know your name :)
Sometimes I wonder if we aren't over-hyping the importance of education. It is important for all of us to be literate. But how much education is enough? And an education doesn't necessarily mean learning the sines and cosines by heart.