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M iddl e c l a s s in dif f e re n c e . Edu- First Party of India (regstd.2013) that an ill-educated nation can never
cation and nurturance of children which solicited membership sub- become internationally respected and
and youth in bottom-of-pyramid scription (Rs.100 per year) drew competitive, let alone be acknowl-
households is a necessary precondi- negligible response. edged as a global super-power.
tion of national development. This Indifference towards education Therefore, a mind-set sea change
majority within generation next must and human resource development is required in all sections of society in
be transformed into skilled and high by the establishment, the country’s favour of truly — instead of ritually
productivity blue and white collar great estates and middle class lends — educating India’s children through
workers and managers required by credence to communist/socialist provision of globally benchmarked
industry, business and government. dogma that in democratic societies high-quality K-12 and higher educa-
Yet the country’s middle class which the bourgeoise has a vested interest tion. Indeed, this is the precondition
sign up their children for relatively in illiteracy and poverty to ensure of sustained national development.
superior private schools and higher availability of a vast pool of cheap On the 23rd anniversary of Edu-
education is utterly indifferent to labour engaged in informal low paid cationWorld, we invite leaders in all
sliding standards in public educa- employment. Yet however convenient great estates of the Republic to make
tion. this situation may be for the ruling common cause with us and explore
A high-potential project ‘Million and middle classes, it’s self-evident ways and means to raise teaching-
Memorial Libraries’ which proposed learning standards to best global
the philanthropic establishment of norms. A coordinated and orches-
low-cost (Rs.5 lakh) libraries in gov- On the 23rd anniversary of trated national effort to educate and
ernment and/or NGO schools drew EducationWorld, we invite skill the world’s largest child and
no response at all despite your editor youth population is imperative to
establishing a model Malati & Vinoo leaders in all great estates make India — which less than two
Thakore Memorial Library in the of the Republic to make centuries ago contributed 20 percent
Parikrma School, Sahakara Nagar, common cause with us of global output and wealth — great
Bengaluru. Moreover, the Children again.

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