Liberty For The Edupreneur

The Economic Times has an important editorial on education, one that calls for an immediate end to the license-raj in the sector. In particular, the editors rubbish the Yash Pal Committee Report, calling it “too socialist,” and draw attention to a note of dissent to that report penned by the Cornell economist Kaushik Basu. I particularly liked this:

Glorious socialist tirades against commerce in education cannot obscure the fact that government-provided education, in schools and colleges, is often so pathetic that to call it education is preposterous.

Tragically, the editors fail to think things through to their logical ultimate conclusions, and call for an “independent rating agency” in education, to be set up by – you guessed it – The State!

That apart, an excellent editorial that calls a spade a spade.

Nothing much else to blog about this morning. The new bridge in Bombay – its being named after Rajiv Gandhi, and Sonia flying in to inaugurate it. Now, what can one say about that?

Or the Liberhan Commission submitting its report on the demolition of the Babri Masjid after 17 years and 8 crore rupees.

All this I can stomach.

But let’s get ‘em OUT of education.