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Flexibility also means a redistribution of risks away from the state and the economy towards the individual. The jobs on offer become short-term and easily terminable (i.e. ‘renewable’). And finally, flexibility means: ‘Cheer up, your skills and knowledge are obsolete, and no one can say what you must learn in order to be needed in the future.’
The Brave New World of Work
Ulrich Beck
the best way to mitigate interventionism is to ration the supply of information, as naturalistically as possible. This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what’s going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that “science” means more data.
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The 1930s are widely regarded as the crucible of modern Indian history, holding the key to our understanding of the final phase and outcome of India’s independence struggle. From our perspective the changes that were taking place in education at this time are worth probing for two reasons. One, they may help us grasp better how educational data reflect the sociopolitical milieu; and two, they may tell us how education contributes to the formation of a political atmosphere.
Political Agenda of Education
Krishna Kumar
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