what's our wealth?

An observation that was impressed upon us in our Macro Economics class by Professor Karma was that the wealth of any nation is it's people. This is truer for some nations than others. For instance, our nation India has been built only by the human resources as we have not been blessed with natural resources (read oil) like Saudi Arabia, Iran or some of the countries in the world.

Whatever modest achievements, we have had, have been through our people's enterprise, perseverance and grit. So, essentially our true wealth lies in our people rather than any particular mineral, stone or whatever. So our goal should be to pay most attention to the grooming our people. This is a question that I would like to pose to the audience of this blog -- are we really doing that?

Is our government, rising above the petty partisan politics, ready to consider education as an equally important asset as roads or electricity. Our we as individuals ensuring that we become a stakeholder in the education of not our own kids, however of the whole society itself. I am sure the answers to all these questions are very grim and so is the future of nation.

I have thought about this a lot and have also worked on a long-term solution. I will post my solution on the blog in next couple of days. However, would be interested in listening to yours as well.

Further, we just launched a new feedback form on our website as we consider that the parents and teachers are the most important stakeholders in the whole educational reform process and we intend to learn a lot from their suggestions -- if you happen to be one of those concerned with the wealth of this nation, please give suggestions over here.