The significant judgment from Karnataka high court on 2nd July, 2008 ruled out the order of govt. stating that primary education should be given in Kannada medium . It is a biggest drawback not just for Karnataka Govt. but to the whole education system.

By this judgment, unaided private institutions will make hell lot of money in the form of capitation, donation and management quota seats. As of now there is a bug in the minds of parents that only English medium schools are good. Taking undue advantage of this situation, it’s very easy for private unaided institutions to make money.

At this time we can remember the famous quote saying “Science is not a difficult subject, but learning science in English medium is very difficult”. While the western countries like Germany are accepting Sanskrit as a powerful medium for teaching science related subjects, we are still hanging our self to English. This is applicable to most of the Indian local languages which are very close to Sanskrit.

From last few year if we observe the court judgments related to education field, it’s always biased towards privileged, owners of institutions. It can be regarding CET, Fee structure for professional courses or distribution of seats among management and govt., those who are making education a business won the cases. It clearly shows that, now the judicial system also getting corrupted. Till now not even a single judgment protected the interests of millions of students. It lead to lot of suicides among student central. It’s really shame on these systems to come up with such a biased judgment.

This judgment though directly won’t hit students, in long run definitely will ruin the local language. I’m not against English or any language but mother land, mother tongue should always be given top priority. Please raise your voice against this. Please share your opinion here by commenting.

Related Links:
New Ind Press: Kannada not a must for private schools, says HC
Indian Express: Kannada medium not must for private schools, says High Court
Yahoo! News: Kannada medium not must for private schools, says High Court

Few years back VTU of Karnataka successfully implemented distance education and live broadcasting of lectures through Edusat. Now IIT-B also joined the force.

From 2^nd Jan, 2008, IIT-B is launching live lectures through Edusat. IIT-B will broadcast the lectures to all the engineering colleges in India.Not only that, the students can also interact with the lecturers of IIT-B.

That’s really a great news right. login to IIT-B website for details.Details regarding Live Transmission is available in their distant education program website. For more details about the news visit TOI

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There is no doubt that India is the seat of knowledge and wisdom of world. Only the intermediate British rule faded our education system for a while. As the cloud passes we can see the brightness of sun again. That is the power of India.

Here is one more feather to its crown. New York Times came up with this interesting article titled “Losing an Edge, Japanese Envy India’s Schools”. The article notes the declining confidence of Japanese towards their education system. Also how they are turning towards Indian education system.

It is a clear sign that slowly the world is waking up and realizing that India will not accept defeat so easily and it will come back again with it’s glorious past. Now it’s our turn to keep this race going on and ring back the glory of ancient India in terms of its richness, knowledge and wisdom.

Today in blogosphere this article is the most discussed topic. Visit these blogs also for interesting posts:

http://indiablogs.searchindia.com/2008/01/02/japan-goes-gaga-over-indian-education/

http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/01/education-nyt-o.html

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004934.html

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