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    The document discusses the issue of whether education should be nationalized in India. It notes that the current education system leads to disparities between rich and poor students. Nationalization could help set uniform standards and assessments across states. Nationalizing textbooks and exams could improve transparency and quality of education. While sudden changes may not be accepted, gradually implementing nationalized policies through groups like common schools could build support. Nationalization may be necessary for better organization and coordination of India's education system.

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    The document discusses the issue of whether education should be nationalized in India. It notes that the current education system leads to disparities between rich and poor students. Nationalization could help set uniform standards and assessments across states. Nationalizing textbooks and exams could improve transparency and quality of education. While sudden changes may not be accepted, gradually implementing nationalized policies through groups like common schools could build support. Nationalization may be necessary for better organization and coordination of India's education system.

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    The document discusses the issue of whether education should be nationalized in India. It notes that the current education system leads to disparities between rich and poor students. Nationalization could help set uniform standards and assessments across states. Nationalizing textbooks and exams could improve transparency and quality of education. While sudden changes may not be accepted, gradually implementing nationalized policies through groups like common schools could build support. Nationalization may be necessary for better organization and coordination of India's education system.

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    The key takeaways are that the passage discusses the arguments for and against nationalizing education in India, presenting benefits such as standardized testing and textbooks as well as counterarguments about reducing local control over schools.

    The passage argues that nationalizing education could help achieve equality of opportunity, remove mismanagement, standardize textbooks to promote national integration, provide free textbooks to poor students, and reduce regional disparities.

    Examples given of benefits include making performance comparable nationwide, making it easier to assess student, teacher, and school performance, achieving uniformity in textbook standards, and providing research institutions that make important contributions.

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    SHOULD EDUCATION BE NATIONALISED

    The greatest knowledge and the greatest riches man can possess are by
    inheritance.... But the full soul rich with the inheritance of the past, the widening
    gains of the present, and the large potentiality of the future, can come only by a
    system of National Education Sri Aurobindo

    Education- a fundamental right of every childreads our constitution, reminding


    us about our contemporary system of education- its polarised state and steps
    that must follow, for a sustainable future of our country. Because more and more
    people view education as a key factor in the development of economy and
    society, the reform of education itself is becoming the focus for more and more
    people. The importance of education can be derived from the role it has played,
    starting from the ancient proto-languages to the modern Indian languages, in
    shaping our nation. It has been proved that education is very closely related to
    the public life of the nation. Education builds the man so it builds the nation.
    Today we claim to be the biggest human resources supplier for the world, but are
    we concerned; what quality of human capital we are building and for whose
    needs?

    It is true that the educational system in India has faced a basic dilemma ever
    since its introduction by the British. The essence of this problem was summed up
    by Mahatma Gandhi in his historic statement at Chatham House, London; in
    1931- The British administrators, when they came to India, instead of taking
    hold of things as they were, began to root them out.and the schools established
    after the European pattern were too expensive to fulfil a programme of
    compulsory primary education of these inside of a century. This very poor country
    of mine is ill able to sustain such an expensive method of education.

    If we peep into the progress in the post-Independence Era, the subject of


    education was put in the state list keeping in view the diversity and cultural
    diversity & ethnic differences in the different states of India. In fact, whatever
    system of education existed before independence was simply distributed to the
    Union, State and the local administrative units with some changes. It was thought
    that the respective state government will be able to monitor process of education
    at micro level and provide quality education and thus it was put in the State list.
    In fact, the entire system of education was based on the mutual cooperation of
    the 3 units, but practically it is absent. Now almost sixty year down the line the
    question arises, whether we have achieved the goal we set for ourselves on the
    subject of education?

    One may say we had few. Yes, we had. M. S. Swaminathan who made India self-
    reliant in food grains, Dhiru Bhai Ambani who proved a common man can become
    a billionaire, Dr. Varghese Kurien who is the father of Amul milk movement, Dr. A.
    P. J. Abdul Kalam who dared to build missiles for India. Such people though in
    small numbers, were always there. But can we consider them as the products of
    this education system? This system did not teach them how to become
    innovators or entrepreneurs. Had it done so, there would have been millions in
    numbers.

    Contemporary Situation

    Education System in India today went through a lot of changes before it emerged
    in its present form. Today our education system is governed by number of policies
    and schemes considering that Successful population policy is directly linked to
    successful education policy. Today we are trying to correlate raising literacy
    rates and school enrolment rates with the delayed onset of marriage and child
    birth, improved mortality for both mothers and children, and reduction in family
    size. Yes it is indeed true that successful education policy forms the bedrock of all
    fields of national development- political, economic, technical, scientific, social,
    and environmental. Recently India became one of 135 countries to make
    education a fundamental right of every child when the act came into force on 1 st
    April 2010, thus strengthening the above cause. But the quality of education
    provided by the government system remains in question, as the Union
    government is mainly concerned with financial help and specific education.

    While in India, the number count of the implemented policies is rising, it suffers
    from shortages of teachers and infrastructural. There are also frequent
    allegations of government schools being riddled with absenteeism and
    mismanagement and appointments are based on political convenience. Despite
    the charm of free lunch-food in the government schools, many parents send their
    children to private schools as children attending the private schools are seen to
    be at an advantage. But a recent findings of a Quality Education Study' (QES) by
    Wipro and Educational Initiatives (EI) shows that even the country's top schools
    exhibit signs of rote learning. And in their formative years, children in primary
    and upper primary classes show lower sensitivity and demonstrate lack of
    progressive thought on issues related to gender equality, acceptance of
    diversity and in civic responsibilities.

    Should Education Be Nationalised

    Though we empowered the state government to handle the issue of education


    during the initial days of the post- Independence era, their lack of imagination
    and innovative ideas has turned Indian Education system into an inferior quality
    school education system (considering most of the cases); where there is
    discrimination between childrens whose parents are rich and childrens whose
    parents are poor, children who resides in the rural area and those who lives in
    metros. And this gap is widening with every passing day. It is the right time to
    nationalize the education system and make it uniform throughout the country.
    The Right to Education Bill is one such step, although a small initiative, to provide
    access as well as quality education to all children irrespective of caste and class.

    The ideology of Nationalisation is given by Communist or Socialist philosophy.


    According to it, Nationalisation of education of education is the most powerful
    means of providing equality of educational opportunities. It removes bad
    practices and mismanagement in the field of education. As our nation is a
    Socialistic in nature, the above philosophy can be engraved in our system of
    education. The advantages of following a nationalised system of education can
    be as discussed below:

    It will help in making performance comparable across classes and schools


    throughout India. It makes it easier to tell whether a given students poor
    performance is an exception within a class or whether the whole class is doing
    poorly relative to the country as a whole. In other words, centralized exams
    make it obvious whether it is the student or the teacher who is to blame.
    It also makes the whole system transparent: parents can assess the
    performance of children, teachers, and schools; heads of schools can assess
    the performance of teachers; and the government and administration can
    assess the performance of different schools.
    Also, nationalisation of text books can help in achieving national integration
    and in generating a sense of international goodwill. It will affect the uniformity
    in the standard of textbooks which is lacking in the present system where we
    come across lots of study materials that may not have the threshold standards
    but are published for the sole aim of earning money. The government can also
    provide textbooks, free of charge, to poor and deserving students if the
    system is nationalised.
    It will also reduce the regional disparity and thus will create a common
    platform for the launch of ones career. For example, it will be easier for the
    companies and higher educational institutions to choose the students based
    on a common performance indicator.
    Giving schools the power to set their own budgets, performance goals, and
    standards of what to teach will have an adverse impact on student
    achievement. Such powers are probably best left to central authorities when
    the whole system is nationalised.

    Some of the present day examples supporting the above views are:
    The central universities administered by the Centre are better than others in
    organisation and standard of education.
    All India institutions and Research facilities by the centre like IITs, IISc, IIMs,
    etc. are making important contributions in the field of education, environment,
    etc.
    The state governments and other local administrative councils depend more
    and more on the suggestions and assistance by the centre.

    Yes, it is true that Rome was not built in a day. Sudden changes may not be
    acceptable to the people but, slowly injecting the changes with positive outcome
    will gather more support. For example, showing inclination towards
    nationalisation, the Kothari Commission (1964-66) has suggested opt for a
    Common School System and to establish advisory committees and boards at the
    central level. Governments need social programs to create equality and freedom.
    Though Government has set certain standards of qualification of teachers and
    implemented the Mid-Day Meal scheme, etc. for encouraging primary education,
    this should only be a beginning in the direction of more nationalized policies and
    not be an isolated act.

    Thus, centralisation is necessary for better and satisfactory organisation, prompt


    administration and coordination in the educational sphere. Even the father of
    neoliberalism, Milton Friedman, said, Education is a simple case The public
    purpose is to provide education If you subsidize the student you will have
    competition. The student could choose the school he attends and that would
    force schools to improve and to meet the demands of their students.

    Name: Eswar Prasad Choudhury

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