Why Isn’t India Doing its Best to Educate Children of the Poor?

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Why Isn’t India Doing its Best to Educate Children of the Poor?

Why Isn’t India Doing its Best to Educate Children of the Poor?

Education policies have a strong class bias in neo-liberal India.

Every society tries to realise its vision of the future through its education system. Providing a decent education to every child is essential if the future is to be democratic. If egalitarianism is the guiding principle, every child must enjoy the right to good education as much as any other right. India’s liberal democracy could have been expected to educate every child born after independence but it seems this was not a priority for the people running the country. Only now, three generations after independence, are most Indian children finding a place in schools, in an educational scenario stamped with gross inequalities of resources and learning outcomes. Its prime victims are children of the poor who, years after schooling, gain minimal literacy and numeracy.

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