A well educated mind vs a well formed mind: Dr. Shashi Tharoor at TEDxGateway 2013
Minister of State,Ministry of Human Resource Development,Government of India An elected Member of Parliament, former Minister of State for External Affairs and former Under-Secretary-General...
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Translator: Riaki Poništ Reviewer: Denise RQ I'm here to talk to you about Indian education, higher education in particular. But I'm actually going to start with demography. How many of you here are under 35? OK, that seems pretty representative of the country; 65% of India is under 35. How many of you are under 25? Then you are not representing because half of the Indian population is pretty much under 25. We are an amazingly young country. In fact, if you just take the age group from 10 to 19, there are 226 million Indians, poised, in other words, to enter higher education, going through school and ready for higher education. This is amazing because it's happening at the time when the rest of the world is aging. If you look at the aver...
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Translator: Riaki Poništ Reviewer: Denise RQ I'm here to talk to you about Indian education, higher education in particular. But I'm actually going to start with demography. How many of you here are under 35? OK, that seems pretty representative of the country; 65% of India is under 35. How many of you are under 25? Then you are not representing because half of the Indian population is pretty much under 25. We are an amazingly young country. In fact, if you just take the age group from 10 to 19, there are 226 million Indians, poised, in other words, to enter higher education, going through school and ready for higher education. This is amazing because it's happening at the time when the rest of the world is aging. If you look at the aver...
