{"id":23839,"date":"2013-03-05T22:06:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T04:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=23839"},"modified":"2013-03-05T22:06:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T04:06:34","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-the-indian-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/03\/what-is-wrong-with-the-indian-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What is wrong with the Indian Education system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>India\u2019s education system \u2013 the structure and the attitudes \u2013 is a legacy of the Colonial past.\u00a0 We have neither changed it nor replaced it.\u00a0 We want to move to the new world, but with old hangovers.\u00a0 The interesting question is what is wrong with the Indian education system?<\/p>\n<p>A good answer is that very little.\u00a0\u00a0 But here is an interesting take on this question:<br>\n<span class=\"quora-content-embed\">Read <a class=\"quora-content-link decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/India\/What-is-wrong-with-Indian-Education-system\/answers\/1871828\/quote\/329402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quote of Anon User\u2019s answer to India: What is wrong with Indian Education system?<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quora<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a decorated-link\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none;float: right\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=ba48b748-e182-4299-b69e-05cd94bd31ca\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s education system \u2013 the structure and the attitudes \u2013 is a legacy of the Colonial past.\u00a0 We have neither changed it nor replaced it.\u00a0 We want to move to the new world, but with old hangovers.\u00a0 The interesting question is what is wrong with the Indian education system? 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