The following excerpt that addresses education in the Indian context has been adopted from Dr. Vidyut Joshi’s research paper ‘A Century of Basic Education in Gujarat: Shifting Paradigm and Crisis Management’ published in the Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Volume XXVII No. 3 July 2013.
First of all, let us not be complacent and accept the fact that the basic education system has problems. Not only that it is not doing well, but it is losing grip. We will have to accept that education can bring desired social change only if other and larger contexts are congenial. Let us also accept that we can bring about only ideational change. In absolute terms, we cannot become a social reform agency. Having done this, we will have to deal with the tensions (or diseases) and revitalize basic education again. How can this be done?
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