Ramesh Jain analyses some recent remarks of Amartya Sen on education in India:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.These remarks are quite accurate, maybe not as harsh and critical as they should be, in describing the situation. Quite sobering. But if you objectively analyze the situation, even for the positive aspect you see that it is the number of people and competition that brings out top people from the so called Great Institutions, rather than the quality of those institutions.
I too feel that primary education is the key. Primary education for females seems to be particularly neglected. See:
http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map201_ver5.pdf
Education of women and their status in society are important according to many reports.