Friday, June 07, 2019

Don't fall in to the trap of western rhetoric of liberal education.

Don't fall in to the trap of western rhetoric of  liberal education.
 The latest  Draft of indian educational policy is a topic of contention because of the old dravidian  resistance to imposition of Hindi.
As expected even BJP will back track on the 3 language policy mainly because they never  believed in it and it  was never implemented in Northern states only in erstwhile Andhra pradesh during  60s and 70 s this was really implemented in earnest.

but more than this the so called lofty ideal of  adding liberal education to professional education  is should be the  main topic of discussion.

American Students drop ou  of the education stream at high school and undergraduate level and   have to import immigrant doctors  and engineers  mainly due to this importance given to " Liberal education"

Let us not fall in to this trap/ let us not burden the  parents and students with yet another year of wasted time and money. keep the  professional education sharply instrumentalist

we will get to learn the meaning of the  convoluted  paragraph by an English professor

The unwitting subtext of the bitter conflict between the liberal university and anti-liberal nationalism around the world has often been that between an expansive humanistic education and a sharply instrumentalist one. The proposal of mutual symbiosis between professional and liberal education in the draft of the New Education Policy hints at some possibilities of resolution.

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