02206nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100120008308200180009510000330011324500600014626000540020630000260026036500530028652013820033965000240172165000220174594200120176799900190177995201780179820260123110728.0240917b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780670098637  cAL  aEnglish  223a370bVASS  aVishal Vasanthakumar9252343  aSmart and the Dumb : the Politics of Education in India  aHaryanabPenguin Random House India Pvt Ltdc2024  a179 p.bHBc21x14 cm.  a3641b₹479.00c₹d₹599.00e20%f05-09-2024  a‘When racial and sexual injustice have been reduced, we shall still be left with the grave injustice of the smart and the dumb’—Thomas Nagel

Education achieves many things—it pulls people out of poverty, enables socio-economic mobility and promises a route to dignity. But what does education mean to different people, what does it do and whose needs are being met by education?
Even as globalization and formal education have established themselves as unquestionable truths, only a privileged few have cornered its benefits. In this process, education is being reconceived and its promises are being rewritten. Today, there clearly is more to education than going to school, getting credentials and getting a job.
This book is an attempt to capture what this ‘more’ is, by exploring education’s connections to caste, class and gender and understanding how they affect the promise of education. In documenting the fractured realities of the many children who want guns for Christmas and the psychological trauma of conflict in Manipur, how a ban on toddy-tapping affects educational choices in Tamil Nadu or why a grandmother chose to get her fifteen-year-old granddaughter married to a seventeen-year-old truck driver in rural Rajasthan and many such stories, this book attempts to paint a portrait of the political and cultural processes that affect education.  aNon-fiction9179164  aEducation9179165  2ddccBK  c231808d231808  00102ddc40708PSYaALbALd2024-09-13eBiblios Book Point Surathkal Mangalore 575014g479.00l1o370 VASSp077328r2025-01-13 00:00:00s2025-01-04v599.00w2024-09-17yBK