Should Indian political leaders ban low - quality educational institutions ?

Good to keep this important conversation going. Let me try sharing my perspective from years of research in the Indian education space and my recent interactions at the grass-root level:

• Is the commitment, quality of teaching (and the administrators ) same as a few decades ago ? 
  • To answer this question, I might have to digress a little bit :-)
  • the actual deterioration of the quality of education in India accelerated with the introduction of the lord macaulay education policy. It had started over a 1000 years ago when we were invaded by barbarians who had no formal education.
    Here is the speech :
    “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a begger, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever counquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will loose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation. ”
    Probably Macaulay (an english) understood more , the strength and power of Indian culture , education and heritage more than most Indians do today.
    
    
  • not to spark another thread but a few policies of the post-independence era pushed a lot of educated people (brain drain) who could have made a big difference to the country out of India to seek for refuge outside of India.
    Here is the speech of Lord Macaulay in the English parliament which is available for pubic access:
    “I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will loose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.”