Mr Modi and parts of his party and government have paid lip service plenty to "education". Mr Modi gives advice to students and has even apparently written a book about exams. And yet, the underlying thread within Modi's ethos is that education is elitist and not as good as...

...canninesss and streetsmarts which Mr Modi has in spades. Hence snide remarks like "hard work more important than Harvard". Tied into this jeering insecurity is the reluctance to provide a degree certificate in spite of claiming its advantages. This has been explained to us...

...as part of Modi's great popularity. He appeals therefore to those tired of elitist claims to education and its privileges. This gives him the "common touch". Yet go anywhere in India and at all levels of society, parents want their children to get a good education. ...

Rarely if ever do you hear a parent saying "no no, education is for the entitled, my child will never be thus sullied". Yet that is what Mr Modi's enablers would have us believe.
Rather, what Mr Modi has bolstered is enormous feelings of insecurity which can be manipulated...

...for electoral benefit. The need for this dangerous contempt for education is to keep people in a state of inferiority and belief. By engendering mediocrity. The dangers of this mindset are clear now in Government where ignorance and lack of experience reign...

If this continues and people continue to encourage this thinking, we are doomed. There is no great benefit in ignorance for the ignorant. The benefit accrues to those who keep them in that state.
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