Why there can’t be a classroom at a click
Sukanta Chaudhuri | 6 February 2024 | Indian Express
This newspaper recently carried a number of articles on education. While differing in subject, they imply a consensus that India cannot provide quality education to all its youth. Of course, it is never phrased this negatively; rather as constructive, even upbeat proposals that take a fraction of the challenge as the whole. The writers tend to see education as an exclusive, not a public, good — exclusive to a class if not an individual. India has a vast middle class, a dream market for goods and services. This is also the dominant educated class, a thriving market for education as for consumer wares.