HSBC's Education Forum : Dr Madhav Chavan - Pratham

Dr. Chavan on the quality of education being affected over the rush of putting every child in school.

Every child must be in school. However the problem does not lie in about putting every child in school but we being a semiliterate country.
All our human resources are of a semiliterate country. In an educated country, you have many well-informed people.

In a semiliterate country, teachers even to the extend of some of our engineers do not know what they are doing. As the quality of education and higher education is poor, the product also of it is also deprived.

We have multiple problems. I think we have to raise quality of our teachers; apart from the teaching methods, their knowledge base should be improved.

It is not about the hurry of putting the children into schools, they should be in school.
Even though I complain that children are not learning, it is for them to come to school and learn to socialize, get to know how to deal with each other.

There is evidence that once a child gone to school will get their children educated. There is enough proof that when a child spends 5 or 6 years of his life in school, even with out learning too much; It does impact the family environment of the chills

So the result not of a small value but has large values. It is a very important achievement.

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