Mending the education system

Now that Bill Gates has said it, here's where we must start

I don’t know if any of you noticed but the Microsoft co-founder spoke up on India’s education system and how it was broken a few weeks ago. All these years Indians of all hues, shapes and sizes saying the same thing may have had little impact but now that Bill Gates has finally said it, it acquires a new significance and may even be acted upon.

In the last three years, I have been meeting school principals and headmasters, educationists, academics, teachers and the like. And here’s a short summary of what I’d like to see the government begin to do.

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