A successful failure

November 14, 2022 /Posted byqureshi_yasser

EducationWorld @23 Although disappointment with achievements of this publication, which has been ploughing a lonely furrow for over two decades exceeds contentment, there is cause for some satisfaction. Today, there is substantially greater acceptance within the establishment and society of several causes consistently advocated by EducationWorld, Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen WITH PUBLICATION OF this issue, EducationWorld — The Human Development Magazine (estb.1999) completes 23 years of continuous, uninterrupted publishing. Given the thousand unnatural shocks that flesh is heir to, and formidable hurdles of public ignorance, institutional indifference and establishment hostility, uninterrupted publication of 276 issues of this pioneer education news magazine posed many a testing challenge. In retrospect even if we haven’t quite fulfilled our goal to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, we can justifiably claim to have advanced the long neglected subject of quality education for all…

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“An uneducated Indian is not a free Indian. India’s education system remains trapped in regulations that reward compliance over learning and scarcity over opportunity. The solution to exam leaks, coaching factories and unemployability is not more licensing, but more supply. We need more schools, more colleges, more competition and more education entrepreneurs. A 21st-century education must not only impart knowledge but encourage questioning. India does not need fewer cooks in the kitchen; it needs more cooks, more recipes and fewer bureaucrats guarding empty plates.”

- Manish Sabharwal, The Indian Express, (2/6)

India’s examination system rests on a foundational assumption that the process is fair, even when outcomes disappoint, and once that trust erodes, the system loses its legitimacy. This is not merely a technical controversy but a credibility crisis, because digitising evaluation is not the same as reforming it. Technology can assist evaluation, but it cannot replace the intellectual responsibility that fair assessment demands. The controversy has shown that technology has not removed subjectivity or error, it has merely shifted them into a different format. Educational institutions cannot run experiments on students whose futures depend on these results, and the obligation is to anticipate failure before implementation, not offer explanations after the damage is done.

- P John J Kennedy, The Indian Express, (26/5)

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