Obsession with quotas in education is misplaced

Too much is made of the policy of reservations for disadvantaged students in colleges and higher educational institutes. Eventually, a small proportion of these students pass out of high school to access the portals of higher learning through the quota route.  At any rate, the overall education scenario is far from bright. Unesco’s ‘Education for All Report, 2008’ has pointed out that only 66 per cent of Indians were literate, with 76 per cent males and 54 per cent females. The number of children aged 6-14, who were not in school, was estimated to be 40 million; and over 92 per cent of students did not study further than primary school.

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