Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Five bizarre
'lessons' in Indian textbooks
India is
committed to enhance education for children. Of course. With the largest
illiterate population of the world especially among women, they’ve got to have
all children sit and study in the classroom. As of 2011, it was estimated that
less than two-thirds of the women in India were literate while 82% of men were
able to read and write.
Why is the gap
so wide? Some background cultural or religious was shown in one of the
textbooks used in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, which
compared the donkey to the housewife. And there are other weird or even ridiculous
errors or content in other textbooks.
What kind of
education are those children getting?
Enjoy reading a
few examples in school textbooks in India.
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