The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, recently said that the “number one reason why we like to be in China is the people. China has extraordinary skills… the depth of highly skilled labour in the manufacturing space….”
The apologists in India point to the IT boom of the 1990s and the export of thousands of IT professionals or doctors and nurses. What they fail to see is that the majority of our students are not able to develop higher order thinking or technical skills that can indeed propel our economy and transform our society.
The sad. . .