BANGALORE: Though the Constitution itself has provided for free universal and compulsory primary education (Article 45) within ten years the rulers of India neglected this during the past 45 years and went on expanding higher education. Why? There is a method in this madness. If the entire population of India gets educated that will naturally bring awareness and along with awareness comes the desire to assert their human rights. The ruling class thinks that if all the people of India get educated and secure their human rights that will not be in the ruling class interest. The ruling class pig philosophy is everybody else should be deprived if the ruling class has to remain happy. The rulers do not want anybody to get educated So they have kept the whole country deprived poor and hence illiterate. So India has just 30% name-sake literacy after 45 years of “independence”. The literacy among SC/ST is almost half of this. The ruling class does all this in the name of democracy socialism. This is also done in a non-violent way in the name of the Father of their Nation.
If the primary education is neglected what about higher education? This is what the “experts” (also belonging to the ruling class) Say:
A seminar at the SNDT women’s university in Bombay on Jan4 has revealed shocking details. The educationist’s present “expressed concern” about the rapid growth in the number of students enrolled in institutions of higher education. Their number has grown from 265000 in 19 universities and 400 colleges in 1947 to 3681000 students in 155 universities and 6040 colleges in 1988 representing a growth rate of almost 10%. Several efforts to slow down this growth have failed as the demand for higher education continues to grow Further more political realities restrained the Government from taking any steps that would deny any section of society equal access to higher education “(Hindu Jan.5).
That means the country is suffering from excess of higher education Why the primary education is neglected and higher education pampered? This is because the ruling class wants it so Not that the ruling class is not conscious of the lopsided growth of the education system in India. It knows it Yet it consciously creates this lopsided growth Because it wants the general mass of people meaning the SC/ST/BCs and Muslims to remain deprived and illiterate so that they will continue to serve the upper castes who are also the rulers. It is investing this “poor” country’s scarce resources in higher education so that the upper caste children get the best of education that will prepare them to go to Western countries on fat salaries. They get education subsidized by the govt. and after getting educated they run away to Western countries without repaying the debt We must stop this.
English for the Elite: Besides this the ruling class is also enforcing a dual education system. The chaotic govt. education system for the “poor” is imparted in their mother tongue. But the ruling class sends its children to expensive and exclusive private education institutions where the medium is English. That means English for the rulers and Indian languages for the ruled.
Can we think of such a set of a ruler in any part of the world? And these rulers have been ruling” us in the name of Gandhiand all its crimes are done in the name of Gandhi. And they also say their crimes have the blessings of Gandhi. We must stop this.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 8, 1991
