Politician and educator, Atishi Marlena, and founder of some of India’s leading educational institutions, Pramath Raj Sinha talk about the purpose of education in a rapidly changing world. Can government schools provide a ‘good’ education to our children? Is the private sector the answer to a failing system? What are our children and youth really learning in their schools and colleges? All this and more in this episode on the education system in India.

Highlights

• Has the education system veered towards producing workers for the economy, and away from producing better citizens for society?
• How do you learn something new, when you haven’t been trained for it?
• What will it take to make government schools work, and how should we be thinking of private institutions?
• Is it possible to create reflective spaces where students can learn values and ethics?
• Can excellence in education be measured?

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Read more:

1. What the National Education Policy 2020 has gotten right and what it hasn’t
2. Why Indian children can’t read
3. Incorporating play to improve cognitive learning
4. Standardised tests ignore indigenous knowledge, language, or problem-solving strategies
5. Our solutions for education aren’t working
6. Seek and you shall find

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