Taneja, Shivani
(2020)
Bringing the last child into school.
Learning Curve (7).
pp. 79-83.
ISSN 2582-1644
Abstract
When I started working in 1997, I set out with a
dream that all children should be in school, with
the assumption that this idea was directly linked
with the vision of an equitable world. I believe
many of us have worked on these lines. Whether it
is the state, communities, parents, all of us adults
find ourselves believing/working on the premise
that schooling is necessary as well as productive.
But as we grow from a naïve young person to a
critically thinking adult (unlikely to have become
this through our own school education!), there is
a realisation that this is far from the truth. Some
questions arise that may need to be examined
beyond the classroom setting: Is education merely
a tool for the industrialised world, for modern
civilisation? Do we learn a sense of equality
across gender, religion, caste, class and develop
constitutional values, or is it actually the opposite
that is strengthened through this system? Will this
education build a sustainable world?
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