In chapter 8 of Countries and Concepts by Michael G. Roskin, India is discussed. The book discusses how India's population will be far greater than China's in the future. However, India faces a demographic bulge, that China does not. Half of India is under 24 and educating them has become an urgent concern. Indian schools, specially elementary schools, are terrible. They have no money, no buildings, and no teachers. Education in India is a state matter and many states do not have the money to spend it on education, they rather spend it on other things. Public schools have fees that the poor cannot afford. Private schools that some Indians can afford don't even compare to the education american education system. And India's top universities only teach a small elite group. India's literacy rate is 60 percent as apposed to Chinas's which is 90 percent. \
I found two articles about how education will be hard for females to obtain and how aspirants to be teachers failed their teacher tests. The first article talks about how it will take 56 years for India to achieve female youth literacy. India is expected to to gain female literacy around the year 2070 or 2080. Irina Bokova, the director general of Unesco, states: "It is simply intolerable that girls are being left behind. For poor girls, education is one of the most powerful routes to a better future, helping them escape from a vicious cycle of poverty." The second article states how 98 percent of aspirants to be teachers failed the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET). According to the article: "The papers feature objective questions which test the aspirants' knowledge of English, mathematics and environmental science." This year's results actually "mark a marginal improvement over last year, when over 99% of the candidates failed to pass. But CBSE sources said the board had worked on the difficulty level as well as extended the duration of the test, keeping in mind dismal results in the past."
This shocks me very much because it shows how India is terrible at Education.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-will-take-around-56-years-to-achieve-female-youth-literacy-Report/articleshow/31758534.cms?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/98-of-aspirants-fail-test-for-teachers-in-India/articleshow/32444979.cms
I was reading another classmate's blogpost about a criminal running for office and how some Indians would actually vote for him. It got me thinking about education and whether many constituents were educated on such topics to even consider voting. There are some extremely smart people in India, but it isn't enough. Also it is terrible that females are left behind in this department and it probably goes back to the country's history.
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