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The dismal legacy of Chuck Schumer and Harvard s class of 71 The university has been transformed from an institution encouraging free enquiry to one seeking to inculcate a message Follow Us
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“The worst class ever”: that’s how Nathan Pusey, Harvard’s then-president, described my undergraduate cohort of 1971.
With a half century’s leisure to contemplate that bitter judgment, I’ve concluded that he was just about right. Of course, one can’t be sure, as no one can know all of Harvard’s 385 graduating classes. I can assert, however, that ours was not just feckless in college what Mr. Pusey observed and condemned but in the 50 years since, when it actively joined in the degradation of American higher education and culture.
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 lays down the path to learning, practising, and building skills and careers that thrive within the country, instead of being lost to ‘brain drain’
Jawaharlal Nehru emphasised that freedom from ignorance was as essential as freedom from hunger. “Only through right education can a better order of society be built,” he said. A right education is one that favours rational thinking, love of learning, cultivation of a scientific temperament, and fostering the spirit of fraternal cooperation. This article will try to examine how the New Education Policy’s (NEP 2020) proposed revamp of the entire education system would tackle the pressing problem of “brain drain” from India.