I can no longer accept a narrative of education which teaches me that my village grandmother was illiterate, primitive, backward, stupid, uneducated, underdeveloped, uncivilized and not capable of managing her own affairs

~Manish Jain

Manish Jain is Coordinator and Co-Founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India. He is committed to new models of learning and unlearning that unleash the imagination and creativity held captive by our current education paradigm. While Manish has given me permission to reprint the article in its entirety here, because his articles are copyleft, I have simply provided the link to the article, as it is quite lengthy:

http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/healingdiplomadisease.pdf

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