feeling a little like the cross product of (Vonnegut) Harrison Bergeron
and George Santos ?
On 6/1/23 12:07 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:
Hi Glen
In so far as the report of dropping the periodic table and evolution
from the Class 10 syllabus, it is essentially a question of Hindu
class and caste dynamics operating in India.
Traditionally, education / knowledge in India was the domain of the
Higher castes like Brahmins (Pundits), the next caste beneath them
(Kshatriyas) were warriors so didn't need much bookish knowledge as
they also had Brahmins to advise them, the 3rd highest caste
(Kayasthas) were scribes and scriveners so allowed to read books but
not to apply them .. and so on. All the castes beneath them were
prohibited from reading books or acquiring Brahmanical knowledge - on
pain of death.
Over the centuries by marrying endogamously the genetics of the
various castes evolved to amplify the physical
characteristics required for each castes' profession. The Muslim and
then the British rulers of India were more than happy to allow this
state of affairs to continue while they ruled as it kept the Hindus
divided and segregated.
However, after India became independent in 1947, with the spread of
universal education the Brahmins were subjected to intense reverse
discrimination and negative reservations intended to curtail their
education domination. With the infiltration of the lower castes
throughout the education system the education standards of India have
been pulled down to the lowest common denominator. To take a simple
example which I cited earlier, a Brahmin student needs to score a 99+%
percentile to get into a top engineering or medical college
(scoring 250 marks out of 300 in a negatively marked exam) whereas a
low caste (barely literate) student gets in even with a score of
negative 50 out of 300, with over 40% of the students unable to score
+ve marks.
The reasons these chapters are being removed has nothing to do with
religion or creationism, and everything to do with the poor state of
the Indian education system where the bottom students can't cope. The
low caste Prime Minister of India (who has only passed Grade 4) claims
to have acquired graduate as well as post-graduate degrees from top
universities (which seem completely fake), Universities which he
publicly admits he never set foot in, especially seems determined to
pull everyone in India down to his semi-literate level.
Sarbajit
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 9:29 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't follow Indian politics. But these seem scary:
Religion and the decline of freethought in South Asia
https://freethinker.co.uk/2022/04/religion-and-the-decline-of-freethought-in-south-asia/
India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01770-y
Again, going back to Sweet Tooth, the tension between having to
sacrifice hybrids to get the 'secret sauce' for the anti-viral (or
the cure) against a vegetarian ideology is interesting, flies in
the face of naïve utilitarianism.
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