Education in Delhi Schools: Rhetoric vs. Reality Delhi-School-Education-Rep-June-2018 | Page 50

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO) “literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to
achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully
in their community and wider society.”
That is literacy. So, India should accordingly change its archaic definition of literacy
and develop a realistic definition. By the new definition, in all probability, the number
of educated persons in India will not be more than 5% of the total population.
While school education should only be treated as a foundation for higher education,
the persons who have completed only the school education in the current system
must be bracketed with uneducated people.
Today, the Indian government boasts that India is a nation of the young people with
more than 54% of its 1.3 billion population below the age of 25 years.
But the government does not realize that in the absence of right education, these
young people are like time bombs. They will not be able to achieve the right career
without the right education. Then in desperation today’s young people will become
tomorrow’s criminals (such as politicians) and bring disaster for India.
It is, therefore, an imperative to immediately revamp the entire school education
system of India to save the lives of millions of children by giving them the right
education.
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