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Hello, I'm Professor
Mukti Mishra, Founder-President
of Centurion University.
Today I would like to talk about an
experiment in alternate education
and what we have accomplished in
remote and difficult geography
of tribal Orissa.
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In India, the present
education system
has devolved to being
inappropriate, irrelevant,
and meaningless to the
majority of its stakeholders.
Education as a product and
service is a derivative
of democratic thinking.
But the educational process
is autocratic, inflexible,
and resistant to the
needs of this society.
The apostasy in the
current education system
has created a situation where there
are millions of degree-holders
without jobs and millions of
jobholders without degrees.
This situational chasm for parents,
students, education institutions,
industry, and society
at large warrants
a blitzkrieg intervention,
out-of-box thinking,
an out-of-circle approach.
The blind alley which the education
delivery system has encountered
because of its failure
to connect degrees
to its commensurate
competency, ability, capacity,
and dexterity of degree-holders.
The disillusionment with
every level of education
has become a fait accompli,
and a socioeconomic challenge.
As I understand, the basic premise
of education leading to a degree
must result in livelihood
with decency and dignity.
However, as it stands, the
basic premises has no validity.
Now it is a matter of
concern for providers
of education and policymakers.
The output, outcome,
impact-driven education has been
pushed to the state of nihilism.
So the question
arises, what do we do
and how do we address
this challenge?
And my response is
disruptive education,
reversing the region.
