Manmohan's Delusions Of "Collective Knowledge"

Our Great Leader, chacha manmohan s gandhi, said the following while giving away the Infosys prizes (for mathematics, sociology, social anthropology etc.):

A nation’s strength comes from the quality of its collective knowledge, the productivity of its working people, the creativity of its entrepreneurs and the dedication of its professional workforce.

What is the “collective knowledge” of our The State when it comes to traffic regulation? – so let’s forget about “regulation of markets” for a while. What about the “dedication” of our The State’s own “professional workforce”? – the bureaucracy. The latest news is that PSUs are losing 1.7 lakh crore rupees!

After this nonsense, chacha went on to oppose for-profit private sector education. He said:

With the growing share of privately funded for-profit educational institutions, this may be emerging as a worrisome barrier to freer access to knowledge for all our people.

The critical word is “access.” He believes that by making this access free, he will be able to give the poor and the unlettered access to “knowledge” – and this is knowledge acquired and disseminated by the “collective.”

Chacha further stressed the importance of “access to knowledge”:

A country’s prosperity too is a function of the knowledge its people possess and acquire. Indeed, it has always been so. But, what has changed in the last few decades is the access to knowledge. We live in an era of greater equity and equality as far as the acquisition of knowledge is concerned.

Actually, knowledge is “produced.” Everyone has free “access” to all the knowledge on Austrian Economics, for example, but very few “study” enough to “produce” even a newspaper article. You can equip a college with the world’s biggest library – access to knowledge – but you will still need hardworking scholars who will pore through all the knowledge of the past and “produce” it afresh for the present day.

State universities never “produce knowledge.” They are simply “teaching shops.” The teachers all teach the same old stuff year in and year out. Like “Indian Economics.” Propaganda.

Collective knowledge, indeed!