Renowned educationist Soumitra Dutta recently advocated the need for changes in the education system in India so as to encourage freedom, creativity and innovation from the school level itself. As per news reports, Dutta, who is also an author, business man and Dean of Management at Cornell University, has said that the education system in India restricts innovation.
Noting that India ranks 66 out of 140 countries in terms of local dynamics of innovation as per the UNDP, Dutta blamed the education system for it.
"Restricting freedom at early age in schools by expecting children to write exactly as written in text books reflects later in industry, which leaves less scope for innovation due to lack of creativity," he said.
[Reported in India Today online magazine on 01/04/2014]
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