A presentation summarising some of the arguments from - http://www.learninggeneralist.com/2013/08/why-my-daughter-doesnt-deserve-school.html

1. Schooling ke side effects(a.k.a why my daughter doesn’t deserve school)

2. When I was 5 years old, my
mother always told me that
happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked
me what I wanted to be when I
grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’.
They told me I didn’t understand
the assignment, and I told them
they didn’t understand life.- John Lennon
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3. Drunk for a penny
Dead drunk for
twopence
Clean straw for
nothing
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4. England in 1800 vs The Stone AgeEngland in 1800 vs The Stone AgeEngland in 1800 vs The Stone Age
Material Lifestyle England c.1800 Forager Societies
Calories Per Day 2322 2340
Protein per day (g) 48 61
Male Height 67” 66.5”
Male work hours per day 8.5 5.9
Life Expectancy at Birth 38 33
Life Expectancy at 20 34 39

5. 24.3%of World GDP

7. Let all that’s Indian within you die.“
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8. We must at present do
our best to form a class
of persons Indian in
blood and colour, but
English in tastes, in
opinions, in morals and in
intellect. -Macaulay’s Minute on Education
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9. A familiar pattern(destruction, conversion, education)

11. School propagates the same injustice

12. Imagination is the source of
every form of human
achievement.And it's the
one thing that I believe we
are systematically
jeopardising in the way we
educate our children and
ourselves. - Sir Ken Robinson
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13. Bells and Cells- Aarti Rajaratanam

14. Education = Job

15. Really?

16. 26 million births(at a minimum, per year)

17. Most will go to school under
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
(96.5%)

18. 389
Universities
14,169 Colleges
1,500 Research
Institutes
3,500,000 Graduates
850, 000 Post Graduates
(per year)
(per year)
550,000 Engineers
(per year)

19. Second Largest
pool of scientists and engineers in the world

20. Second Largest
pool of trained doctors

21. 17 million enrolments into higher education
(in 2012)

22. 450,000 jobs(per year in the best years of economic growth - 2009/2011)

23. Small IT Shops
30,000
MNC/ IT Companies
50,000
Going Abroad for Studies
20,000
Approximate hiring numbers per year

24. 70%engineering graduates
remain unemployed

25. 30%remain unemployed a year
from graduation date

26. Most are notin Engineering jobs

27. Youth Unemployment - 10.5%

28. 93%unorganised workforce(labourers, owner manned general stores, handicrafts and handloom workers, rural traders, farmers, etc)

29. 52%are farmers

30. The Side Effects

31. 1. English Rules the World

32. 2.West is Best

33. ackward
and PrimitiveB3.

34. 4. Invention of
Failure

35. School forcibly snatches away
children from a world full of God’s
own handiwork …It is
a mere method of discipline which
refuses to take into account the
individual…a manufactory for
grinding out uniform results. I was
not a creation of the schoolmaster:
the Government Board of Education
was not consulted when I took birth
in the world. - Rabindranath Thakur
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36. You do it my way, by my
standards, at the speed I
mandate, and in so doing achieve a
level of output I ordain, and I’ll pay
you handsomely for it, beyond
anything you might have imagined.
All you have to do is take orders
and give up your way of doing the
job for mine.- Frederick Winslow Taylor
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37. 5. Forget initiative, just conform

38. 6. Consume! It’s awesome.

40. 7. Be fiercely competitive

41. 8. Environment is an externality

42. The great purpose of school can be
realized better in dark, airless, ugly
places. It is to master the physical self,
to transcend the beauty of
nature. School should develop the
power to withdraw from the external
world. - William Torey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education 1889-1906
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43. 9. Eew! Working with hands?

44. Real freedom will come
only when we free
ourselves of the
domination of Western
education,Western
culture, and the Western
way of living. - Mahatma Gandhi
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45. So whatdo I want?

47. Dearest Avni,

48. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
Dearest Avni,

49. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
Dearest Avni,

50. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
Dearest Avni,

51. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
4.Build respect for tradition and indigenous livelihoods
Dearest Avni,

52. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
4.Build respect for tradition and indigenous livelihoods
5.Gain mastery over all our family languages
Dearest Avni,

53. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
4.Build respect for tradition and indigenous livelihoods
5.Gain mastery over all our family languages
6.Pursue knowledge for its own sake
Dearest Avni,

54. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
4.Build respect for tradition and indigenous livelihoods
5.Gain mastery over all our family languages
6.Pursue knowledge for its own sake
7.Follow your passion without fear
Dearest Avni,

55. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
4.Build respect for tradition and indigenous livelihoods
5.Gain mastery over all our family languages
6.Pursue knowledge for its own sake
7.Follow your passion without fear
8.Question the status quo of the current world
Dearest Avni,

56. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
4.Build respect for tradition and indigenous livelihoods
5.Gain mastery over all our family languages
6.Pursue knowledge for its own sake
7.Follow your passion without fear
8.Question the status quo of the current world
9.Learn to work with others, not against them
Dearest Avni,

57. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
4.Build respect for tradition and indigenous livelihoods
5.Gain mastery over all our family languages
6.Pursue knowledge for its own sake
7.Follow your passion without fear
8.Question the status quo of the current world
9.Learn to work with others, not against them
10.Find challenges in life to drive your learning
Dearest Avni,

58. 1.Enjoy your childhood and grow organically
2.Develop a respect for nature
3.Experience the dignity of labour
4.Build respect for tradition and indigenous livelihoods
5.Gain mastery over all our family languages
6.Pursue knowledge for its own sake
7.Follow your passion without fear
8.Question the status quo of the current world
9.Learn to work with others, not against them
10.Find challenges in life to drive your learning
Dearest Avni,
Love, Dada

59. A journey. Not a Formula.