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Ep 185: Fixing Indian Education

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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What Have I Just Done to You?

Education systems have historically served three very different functions in society. There is a part of this which is about creating teaching skills and teaching in actual content. The other function that education has served historically is at also served as sorting and screening function of identifying who is smart, so that you can then allocate the people who are smart into positions of higher education, positions an leadership. We are fundamentally a fistration system, right? So if you look at the i'e cofte, eof oops  you know what its like to go through our school system when it's not working for us. Because we're often stupefied by how things turn out because they don

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