Learning Curve: Two Ways to Educate India

Whatever APF may be doing is just about a few generations behind the state of the art for developing countries. Consider this, if you can run at 10 miles an hour, would you like to run at 2 miles instead? That is what APF and Satya Bharti Mittal and all the rest have been doing in the country ever since they started.

Consider this, if you want to go to Patna from Darbhanga, how far will you go? Unlikely farther than Patna. You will hardly ever reach Delhi. APF is on its road to Mysore from Bangalore. Its not thinking tomorrow. Its thinking 1950.

These approaches make them look good in the hearts of people but keep India decades behind the world.

India has not even reached a point of learning where, other than what the western world dazzles us with in gadgets, technology, education, services, products or what have you, where it can evaluate technologies. Of course each of thinks we know more than anyone in the rest of the world. Just that it does not show in what we do. Jingoism is what underlies our thinking process and that must change to becoming a knowledge driven society again that India was before it began following the rest of the world!

Have you examined what One Laptop per Child has achieved in 40 countries in THREE years? Does any Indian initiative come close? How will India be in 5 years had they adopted that?