UPSC Aspirant 2025-26

👉 For education to be successful in its social goals, there must be a consensus among political, economic and cultural policies. 👉 (Imp*)  The term “racism” is much too general to accommodate different kinds of prejudices, and even the term prejudice or bias does not accommodate the different kinds of dislikes people may have towards certain other groups or causes. 👉 Like race, religion remains an important axis of prejudice in all parts of the world. Attitudes towards religious groups other than one’s own, often reflect deep prejudice internalised in childhood. 👉 (V. Imp*) There may not be total consensus between the goals of education and those of political and other social institutions, but a certain scope for freedom to function with intellectual acumen is necessary for dealing with entrenched prejudices. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/school-education-textbooks-counter-caste-and-religious-discrimination-7401582/lite/