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“Educational development is the only Panacea for all the country’s ills and evils.” Critically examine the above statement with reference to NEP-2020.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 20 marks
  • Visions of Social Change in India

The statement carries a defensible claim inside an indefensible word. Education is indeed the most widely distributed instrument of change a poor democracy possesses; but "only" converts an instrument into a cure, and sociology has spent a century showing that schooling reflects the social structure at least as much as it reforms it. The National…

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  • The strongest case for educational development
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