Fundamental Right To Education And The Constitution

The volume is remarkable for its pithy remarks in the form of aphorisms and axioms on the current issues of school education. For example, “the attempt of the government to change the textbook is a deliberate endeavour to propagate a particular ideology”. It is “unequivocally dangerous and antithetical to the best interests of the children and their future”. This amounts to making the textbooks the “manifesto of political parties”. “Compromising the interests of children for narrow political gain is an indication of immature democracy”. …“Education is a process of socialisation to achieve pluralism and adhere to the core values of fraternity, of brotherhood, cooperation and peaceful co-existence”. “Right to Education epitomises the indivisibility and inter-dependence of all human rights”. The failure of a child in an examination “is a failure of the system as a whole rather than of the child”. On the whole, this book stands out as one of the most valuable and brilliant additions to the current literature on school education in India.