My friend asked me to read his blog on foreign education bill.
So in the least amount of words let me put my opinion on the foreign education bill as following--
Sibal is missing out the main point. The focus should be on primary school first. Without proper schooling who will qualify for college? That is what he should address and work to improve.
Competition is one of the best things to happen in a market. Don't you love the low tariff on mobile call rates? Isn’t the revolution of mobile good? Think about it. And if you consider that it is not then why use it, just throw away your mobile and don’t call other people on their mobile set either. Protest against it.
Once upon a time there were only government universities in India. But then the quality got deteriorated and hence it was open for private sector. The idea was also to bring about the changes at a faster pace to adjust the country and its huge population to modern day. There are definitely more people with college degrees now, than there used to be earlier and many things have got standardized in this way.
But how many colleges and institutes are teaching their students to think? I see so many colleges and so many people who are exceptional in their field but how many of them managed to mould their students in a way that they can out-smart their teachers? Not as many as, we would like to believe.
I think this is what Sibal is trying to achieve, create a competitive environment like mobile where each university tries to nourish the leaders of tomorrow. And in this race the people of India can benefit.
Though he is missing on the basic problem the primary education needs to improve. Without which there is no point in bringing any higher education.
I say, we should fear more of ignorance than brain drain, because it is ignorance and the lack of thought that can derive one to kill fellow people on behalf of those who call themselves our leader.
The right to primary education should be made compulsory and then there is nothing to fear. Reservation will not be required when the system ensures that everyone gets fair chance in primary education.
As far as monetary benefit is concerned that too can be fixed but it’s always better to work one step at a time. First the primary education, then second would be the requirement of more colleges to improve the standards. In the process of creating leaders and visionary the system will improve.
There will arise a different type of problem later but then I think we will cross that bridge when we come to it.
