India is a glorious democracy with an economically literate government and pockets of real economic achievement.

But I promise you, now that I will be educated I will always take care of you, and I will come back and I will build you a house.

Obama rightly emphasized that competitiveness in the world today depends on an educated workforce and modern infrastructure.

I've met a young man in New York whose illiterate mother in a village in Senegal takes a bus once a month to the capital city of Dakar, just to watch a Bollywood movie.

The result is that students are not educated by qualified professionals and worse, when they graduate from primary school they are inducted into a secondary school system that is not able to accommodate them.