12-25-2009, 10:34 AM
In fact sometimes i wonder, if the skewed IQ distribution among Indian population ( preponderance of low IQ folks among labor classes ) is a direct result of Nehru/Early Indian leadership's obsession with higher education, 5 year plans etc. and neglecting basic universal primary education. Unlike China.
Hypothetically if , say India focused all her energies on achieving close to 100 % primary education until say 1970's , it appears, our population would not have grown so much, as well as , the poorer sections would not have disproportionately grown faster, so perhaps the population of SC/ST and OBC ( and poorer FC's ) folks as a percentage of total population would have been lesser. I am not peddling this theory as a fact, but generally it appears to me to be true.
If the above trajectory was followed, perhaps, the Indian story would have been different. ANd our economic reforms ( and even the robustness of our democracy) would have been even more meaningful with a 95 % + literacy rate!.
- Krishna
Hypothetically if , say India focused all her energies on achieving close to 100 % primary education until say 1970's , it appears, our population would not have grown so much, as well as , the poorer sections would not have disproportionately grown faster, so perhaps the population of SC/ST and OBC ( and poorer FC's ) folks as a percentage of total population would have been lesser. I am not peddling this theory as a fact, but generally it appears to me to be true.
If the above trajectory was followed, perhaps, the Indian story would have been different. ANd our economic reforms ( and even the robustness of our democracy) would have been even more meaningful with a 95 % + literacy rate!.
- Krishna