Indian Education: Quo Vadis?

Book you are browsing, Indian Education Quo Vadis? is a unique contribution to the important field of education. It consists of seventy nine articles penned by a wellknown teacher, author, contributor and public speaker, Dr. P. M. Kamath at different times as a freelancer to express himself on developments in the entire gamut of education, whenever he felt that authorities are doing something wrong, or they need to do something in a different way or there is a reluctance on their part to take up an issue in the larger interest of citizens of India. The book highlights his views on a variety of issues Among others, on a need to reform Kindergarten education, define its purpose; need to strengthen primary sector as the base of its pyramidical structure by paying the teachers well and recruiting fully qualified persons, who enter the field for the love of teaching and not because they could not get any other job! He highlights prevalence of corrupt practices in the administration of education. He has taken up many issues relating to High School and Jr. College related problems. Since author was a Professor in Bombay University, has not hesitated to critically examine many practices which needed change, mostly under the UGC guidance. He was in forefront of suggesting government making free and compulsory education to all children in the age group of 6 to 14; changing grading system while conducting the examinations to remove the blot of 'fail' from the academic career of a child! He is extremely critical of every minister rushing to reform education without involvement of experts. Every Education Minister in States and the Federal level have changed some aspects of education as often as they come and go making them modern day Mohammad Tughlaqs! Book should be extremely useful to all those who intend to be teachers at any level of growing field of education; all bureaucrats who are perforce placed to handle education by the government of the day and general public who are the stakeholders in the future of generations of students to come within the field of education.