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I did NOT (quoting Umesh) say:
>to say that the education system is responsible for the
>problems you listed is a bit of stretch.
Merely said the educating the 'poor' is meaningless UNLESS these they and
thus the society gains. We had this lovely argument about taxes being
generated by the enhancement of primary education to all. What taxes will
be generated if a farmer's son remains a farmer after receiving the shoddy
eduction we impart today, or a rope-maker's son, a ropemaker, after passing
class 12? And where M.A.s are peons in govt. offices, and Ph.D.s are
unemployed. Hundreds of engineers!!! also are unemployed in the North-east.
All begging for govt. jobs because the govt. has successfully crushed
private enterprise.
We also had this lovely argument about social change being driven by
education. But social change is NOT an end in itself. It is a concomitant
to the way we live. Creation of wealth and freedom are good ends to have.
We are merely creating more MCCs, ULFAs and others radical Marxist
organisations, in the absence of economic opportunity.
The enhancement of job opportunties will DRIVE the demand for education.
Oversupply of education, as is the case today, RELATIVE to the demand for
educated workers, is a serious problem.
My statement was NOT against educating people, but in favour of exercising
tremendous caution in imparting half-baked education to people who have
nowhere to go but back to their ancestral occupations.
I was talking of economic reform and radical reform of the government, as
being critical at this stage.
At 06:01 AM 02/18/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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>"....so-called education is meaningless in the presence of bad economic
>policy..."
>You and I completely agree on this point. Free market and trade, absolutely
>YES. Anything that lessens control from government and bureaucracy and
>encourages free business enterprise and thereby helps generate jobs and
>wealth for the local people, there should not be much disagreement, but
>blaming education system for the problem is like fixing the blame on
>anything you could lay your eyes on. Sure there are problems with the
>existing education system and that's why there is so much talk and so much
>scope of improvement.
>Is the education system responsible for perpetuating bureaucratic control on
>every walk of life or socialism or terrorism or rampant poverty? I think
>not. It certainly has failed to educate people to be free and enterprising
>citizens, but to say that the education system is responsible for the
>problems you listed is a bit of stretch.
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