Analyse any one advantage of the Western education introduced by British
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Western education in India was introduced by the British . But they introduced it in all their colonies which might approximately be 1/3rd of the entire globe at that time . We got a global language , global culture etc . I think introduction of western education was a pre-condition to globalisation . If India were not introduced with it , we would be having difficulty in competing and participating in the global arena . English and all its education kind of made a new slate for India which was at the time of introduction were all divided into many states, many cultures and many languages . The unification of these diverse people were significantly introduced by white education . The other major part for unification was the rise of nationalism . The country India started to stand united against British because of their education . Everyone had a common thread by which they could relate to each other . So in the long run , western education did India more good than it is supposed to do for the British itself .
India had become a superpower in the iron age.
We all know the ages right. First was the bronze age, when Indus valley was a superpower. Then was iron age, when Ganges was.
What India missed, or was forced to miss was the industrial age. That was the time when Europe, especially the UK was a superpower. After that was silicon or electronic age when the US and USSR are superpowers.
The next age might be of carbon nanotubes, or data age, or something else which we did not yet imagine.
The British did not introduce western education for the benefit of Indians. They introduced only to make a class Indian in blood but English in tastes. Indian's using the same education, empowered themselves, got themselves freedom, and rode onto the industrial age, late better than never.
When the electronic age came, India was still poor, this time it did catch the bus, and not so late. This was possible due to western education.
By this day, we have indianized the western education upto a certain extent, and we will continue to do so. Currently the education system is being judged as successful or not by only one metric, ability of to make money/employment.
Judged by that metric, the western education system in India is doing well, it is removing people from poverty in a very rapid pace, producing engineer's doctor's who can have a stable job with stable salary.
In the same education system, we should start judging it with other metrics, like creativity, morality, social responsibility, health, sports etc. The day we start doing it, the western educational system will be no different from our ancient Indian systems.
Then India can be next superpower, the power that has invented for the new age.