On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you mean banning private education, then? that's the only way it'd work.
ouch, ban is a harsh word to use to describe a business man who charges Rs.10,000/year as Bus fees when the child stays a stone's throw away from school. State owned public schooling sounds nicer but Indian government's have outsourced education to greedy capitalists who dont care much for quality or standards. Guess who will be crying foul the loudest if the state had to provide quality education... the politicians. OTOH, what if every politicians child had to study in the public school (since no private schools would exist with for-profit motives) and they also had no 5-star private hospitals to check themselves into. Do you think we would not get better public amenities for all? or would the status quo prevail? Currently we follow neither the American nor German model properly with standards poorly implemented and of course the bane of any project - complete lack of accountability (which is true for many many things in India, not restricted to only education or public health). > same thing for hospitals and doctors. -ditto- above. > > this does work in some countries, but only when they're able to > implement high quality public services. "when" is too vague a timeline. Unless there is accountability public schemes in India will never be implemented properly, with red-tapism, corruption and sheer apathy making it tough for any public service to be provided. > do you seriously think > better-off indians are going to wait for public education to reach > above-abysmal standards? and if private services are allowed as a > "temporary" solution, we're back to the present situation - where even Allowing pvt services as a stop-gap arrangement _is_ the problem. It eases the governments responsibility and forces everyone to fly away instead of getting the government to take accountability and provide the most basic of amenities they tax their citizens for : Public schooling and a Social health system. The current competition between the public system and a private sector is an unequal comparison in many ways but whoever said changing the (br0ken) system is easy! .
