British Quote by Nayantara Sahgal

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce…

— Sugata Mitra

In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life.…

— Anand Mahindra

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small…

— Aravind Adiga

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

— Indira Gandhi

I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the…

— Pankaj Mishra

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as…

— Richard Rogers

“It didn't help that I was never allowed to study anything remotely contemporary until the last year of university: there was never any sense…

— Nick Hornby

The Indians seemed to be living in a place and in a way that was of immense importance to me. So I associate learning…

— W. S. Merwin

The history of the British empire, the chapter of our national story that would have explained to my classmates why a child born in…

— David Olusoga

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Trouble-strewn India was no longer a rich source of career opportunities for English graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, who for decades had taken Indian…

— Stanley Wolpert

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

— Mahatma Gandhi