I doubt whether any of our national dailies will carry escapes from Euro-centricism as necessary step to relieve our education system of its bias. However, it was interesting to read that the HINDU can use Gandhi to present Chavez to us!! Interesting!!
The attempts to purge colonial influences from education policy have been evidenced in many former colonies in Asia and Africa. In India, for example, the movement to liberate education policy dates back to pre-independence days. Rabindranath Tagore did not like the system of education promoted by the English rulers, as it only suited their purpose of getting educated clerks to serve the Empire at a low cost. Gandhi, as early as 1909, in his response to Macaulay’s Minutes of Education (1835) observed “The foundation that Macaulay laid of education has enslaved us. (…) Is it not a sad commentary that we should have to speak of Home Rule in a foreign tongue?” (Translation of Hind Swaraj, published in the Gujarat columns of Indian Opinion, December 11 and 18, 1909).
Source: http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/05/10/stories/2009051050170500.htm
The attempts to purge colonial influences from education policy have been evidenced in many former colonies in Asia and Africa. In India, for example, the movement to liberate education policy dates back to pre-independence days. Rabindranath Tagore did not like the system of education promoted by the English rulers, as it only suited their purpose of getting educated clerks to serve the Empire at a low cost. Gandhi, as early as 1909, in his response to Macaulay’s Minutes of Education (1835) observed “The foundation that Macaulay laid of education has enslaved us. (…) Is it not a sad commentary that we should have to speak of Home Rule in a foreign tongue?” (Translation of Hind Swaraj, published in the Gujarat columns of Indian Opinion, December 11 and 18, 1909).
Source: http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/05/10/stories/2009051050170500.htm
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