Question

short speech on right to education is possible in India

Answer 1

1.Government has already shown its inability to provide adequate funds of 1.71 lakh Crores as it does not have sufficient resources and is keen to involve private sector in the name of Public Private Partnership (PPP) which will be diluting the rights based concept of elementary education.
2. There is no reliable statistics regarding out of school children in India, who have been excluded from the mainstream education for decades.
3. The RTE Act does not include its regulatory mechanism to private un-aided schools.
4. Government is keen to open "Model Schools" rather than introducing "Common School system" and hence promoting a multi layered education system to device rich and poor children.
5. The quality in education is still an unanswered issue in the RTE Act 2009.
6. The Act covers children between 6 and 14 and does not cover above 14 till 18 and below 6 years.
7. The Indian Child Labour Act (The child labor prevention and regulation Act-1986) and the article in the constitution (Artcle 24) on child labour draw line between hazardous and non hazardous child labour and non hazardous child labour is allowed below 14 years. As per the RTE Act and Article 21 A of the Indian constitution Education up to 14 years is a fundamental right and it should be free and compulsory. Necessary amendment need to be made to made to declare that all forms of Child labour is hazardous and should be banned.
8. 10The RTE Act covers children between 6 and 14 years whereas the Art 45 of the constitution envisaged all children below 14 years to be covered within 10 years to come under free and compulsory education. Also it is in contradiction to the definition of children as per international covenants

Answer 2

The right to education means that the State should make adequate provision for educating its citizens. Education sharpens intellect, equips individuals with the capacity to work and trains them in the art of citizenship.

Education is an indispensable condition to free individual development and makes man fit for the tasks of citizenship.

An uneducated individual can neither understand politics nor can he become vigilant about his interests and consequently his actual participation in the affairs of the State is generally negligible.

Such a citizen is bound to be the slave of others. He will not have the opportunity to rise to the fall stature of his personality. “He will go through life a stunted being whose impulses have never been ordered by reason into creative experiment.”

This means the failure of democracy, for the people who are ultimate masters will not be able to exercise their franchise intelligently or perform their other civic duties satisfactorily. Hence, the democratic slogan is: “Educate the masters.” Apparently, the right to education is a civil right, but really, it is a political right as it safeguards them.

Right to education does not, however, mean an identical intellectual training for all citizens. It only means provision for that type of education which should give an equal opportunity to all citizens in that branch of knowledge for which they have an aptitude. Then, there should be a compulsory minimum level of education below which no one may fall, if he is to conform to the standard of a good citizen.

Every citizen should have at least as much education as may enable him to weigh, judge, choose, and decide for himself. “He must be made to feel that this is a world in which he can by the use of his mind and will shape at once outline and substance.”

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