About the Book: Smart & The Dumb : The Politics Of Education In India
‘When racial and sexual injustice have been reduced, we shall still be left with
the grave injustice of the smart and the dumb’—Thomas Nagel
Education achieves many things—it pulls people out of poverty, enables
socio-economic mobility and promises a route to dignity. But what does education
mean to different people, what does it do and whose needs are being met by
education?
Even as globalization and formal education have established themselves as
unquestionable truths, only a privileged few have cornered its benefits. In this
process, education is being reconceived and its promises are being