Ep 185: Fixing Indian Education

It is a humanitarian and moral failure that 73 years after Independence, our education system remains broken. We have failed our children through all this time. Karthik Muralidharan joins Amit Varma in episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen to share his insights from years of research on the ground. We can fix this. Is the NEP part of the solution? Also check out: 1. Karthik Muralidharan's bio at UCSD. 2. Walking the Talk -- Inga Kiderra's profile of Karthik Muralidharan. 3. Reforming the Indian School Education System -- Karthik Muralidharan's chapter from What the Economy Needs Now. 4. The State and the Market in Education Provision -- Karthik Muralidharan. 5. Karthik Muralidharan interview by Pranav Kothari for EI Dialogues. 6. Charting a Course for the Indian Economy -- Karthik Muralidharan in conversation with Arvind Subramanian. 7. Karthik Muralidharan's archived research and articles. 8. Education in India -- Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 9. The Profit Motive in Education -- Episode 9 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Parth Shah). 10. The Right to Education Act -- Episode 19 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul). 11. Our Unlucky Children (2008) -- Amit Varma. 12. Fund Schooling, Not Schools (2007) -- Amit Varma. 13. A Prize for Evidence-Based Policy -- Karthik Muralidharan. 14. Why Abhijit Banerjee Had to Go Abroad to Achieve Glory -- Amit Varma. 15. Poverty and Famines -- Amartya Sen. 16. India’s Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality -- Amit Varma. 17. On Inequality -- Harry Frankfurt. 18. A Theory of Justice -- John Rawls. 19. Anarchy, State and Utopia -- Robert Nozick. 20. Arguments for Liberty -- Aaron Ross Powell and Grant Babcock. 21. Saving Capitalism From the Capitalists -- Raghuram Rajan. 22. Out-Arnabing Arnab -- Episode 8 of Econ Central. 23. Parkinson's Law -- Cyril Northkote Parkinson. 24. Myths of Official Measurement -- Abhijeet Singh. 25. Centrally Sponsored Government Schemes -- Episode 17 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane). 26. The Aggregate Effect of School Choice -- Karthik Muralidharan and Venkatesh Sundararaman. 27. The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review -- Geeta G Kingdon. 28. Extending access to low-cost private schools through vouchers: an alternative interpretation -- James Tooley. Also, do check out Amit's writing course, The Art of Clear Writing.

[@agentK1896]

I usually listen at 1.5 to 1.8x.. Karthik already speaks like 1.5 at normal speed..

[@dawnpiper6002]

Favourite episode till date! Great work.

[@genuinelyhira9275]

Absolutely loved it!

[@ritunjayabhandari4251]

Thank you , for another insightful episode.

[@humanoid9787]

Love this man

[@maramnikhilreddy424]

Why are views so less in these type of videos.

[@shreyaaashi4147]

people in this country don't like podcasts plus this types of content requires thinking and people don't want to use their brain

[@neerajasuresh3752]

Very interesting podcast.Can you please post the links mentioned in the podcast? Thanks :)

[@ruchisharma3504]

Amit, you are the best 🎉

[@lipidsled]

Brilliant episode! Please do the one on federalism as well!

[@chaitanyadutt7183]

A good coffee sponsor from my side Amit.Please keep up the work and like your content.

[@GinzaGeorge]

Next is this! 🤗

[@parindagandevikar4737]

Very interesting podcast, thanks. Those short on time can start after 57 minutes- stuff before that is fun but off topic

[@lipidsled]

I would say don't miss out on the first 57 minutes. It's like another brilliant podcast episode in itself!!

[@irfanahmed9094]

Thx sir

[@abhijeetmalik07]

Very good information but his call centre voice is annoying

[@thegarge7476]

That's spot on, I was wondering why I didn't like this guy even if I liked what he was saying