Push for education yields little for India's poor

International Herald Tribune ^ | 01/17/08 | Somini Sengupta

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Sixty years after independence, with 40 percent of its population under 18, India is now confronting the perils of its failure to educate its citizens, notably the poor. More Indian children are in school than ever before, but the quality of public schools like this one has sunk to spectacularly low levels, as government schools have become reserves of children at the very bottom of India's social ladder.

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... as government schools have become reserves of children at the very bottom of India's social ladder.

Likewise in this country. People with aspirations don't trust the government with their most precious resources, their children. Future-oriented people save, invest, and provide non-public education for their children.