Wednesday, May 28, 2008

We need the best for the brightest

Arun Shourie, Wednesday, September 13, 2006 An inverse snobbery is afoot. We are lectured every other day: “What is needed is universal, free, primary education.” From this comes the unstated inference: “Institutes of higher learning - the IITs, IIMs - are institutions of, and for the elite. They must be bent to serve the poor, suffering, excluded backwards.”No one can deny that we