Quality education. But how?

In a reasoned op ed piece titled ' Body Of Unequal Evidence ', Sunil Khilnani, Avantha Professor and Director, King's Indian Institute, London says that every politician in India has his own agenda but " each leader sidesteps a glaring fact about the country they seek to lead: rising economic inequality threatens our future." Although inequality is growing everywhere, as evidenced by the ' Occupy Wall Street ' movement in the US, which was brutally put down by authorities, the rapid growth in numbers of young people with little prospect of escaping the poverty trap is widening the gap between rich and poor to unbearable proportions. He says that inequality in India is " rooted in the two-tier education system that primes wealthy students to become global crorepatis while granting poor students skills as flimsy as their certificates ( if they are lucky to enough to get one )." A survey of 100,000 students showed that only 30% are fit to be employed. Prof Khilnani writes," Indian and Chinese growth is viewed as a direct threat to the West's well-being in terms of jobs, environmental conditions, access to resources, and more." We beg to differ. China and India are completely different. While China grew by building a world class infrastructure which supported an industrial explosion of such magnitude that it became the factory of the world, India's growth was based on construction of private and commercial properties, fed by vast amounts of cheap debt, a soaring stock market boosted by billions of dollars from Foreign Institutional Investors and bundles of notes distributed by politicians seeking to buy votes to win elections. The growing inequality in the west is partly due to multinationals shifting production to China, Thailand and Vietnam in the quest for cheap labor and the resulting loss of secure jobs, with health insurance and pensions. The good professor should surely know that students have very different capabilities and those with high intelligence will seek premium institutes and centers of excellence, such as Harvard, Oxford and the IITs, will automatically rise to cater to this market. As in everything in the world it is a matter of supply and demand. To increase the worth of human beings we must reduce supply which means reducing population. By reducing competition for low paid jobs it will reduce exploitation and bring equality. Someone has to have the courage to say so.