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A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE

Although disappointment with achievements of this publication,
which has been ploughing a lonely furrow for over two decades
exceeds contentment, there is cause for some satisfaction. Today,
there is substantially greater acceptance within the establishment
and society of several causes consistently advocated by
EducationWorld

Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen

W ITH PUBLICATION OF for the past two decades, and although disappointment

this issue, Education-
exceeds contentment, there is cause for some satisfaction.
Today, there is substantially greater acceptance within
World — The Human
the establishment and society of the message consistently
Development Magazine
proclaimed by EducationWorld that universal quality
(estb.1999) completes
23 years of continuous,
uninterrupted publishing.
tion for India to attain middle class nation status and
Given the thousand un- K-12, if not tertiary education, is the necessary precondi-
national prosperity. Our message that generation of
natural shocks that flesh financial resources is impossible without development of
is heir to, and formidable hurdles of public ignorance, human resources, has struck a resonant chord in mil-
institutional indifference and establishment hostility, lions of hearts across the country, and perhaps within the
uninterrupted publication of 276 issues of this pioneer establishment.
education news magazine posed many a testing challenge. This is evidenced by several causes and policies consis-
In retrospect even if we haven’t quite fulfilled our goal to tently propounded by your editors having — without at-
“build the pressure of public opinion to make education tribution as is customary — been incorporated into public
the #1 item on the national agenda”, we can justifiably policy. For instance, EW was the first strident voice in
claim to have advanced the long neglected subject of qual- post-independence India to highlight the critical impor-
ity education for all to at least mid-point of the national tance of professionally administered early childhood care
development agenda. and education (ECCE) for youngest children.
Since no public personality or media publication is In 2010, we hosted the first ever international ECCE
likely to proclaim the modest achievements of this outlier conference in Mumbai followed by annual national ECCE
publication which has been ploughing a lonely furrow conferences, and began rating and ranking the best pre-

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