Education News – Newsletter for December 26, 2010

In India, a school for democracies world over

NEW DELHI – They come every year from many countries to learn how the world’s largest democracy works, at a little known school in the Indian parliament that came up five years ago.

The latest bunch of 46 officials from 26 countries who attended the school have gone back impressed. The month-long 26th edition of … Read : In India, a school for democracies world over.

Bhagavad Gita studied by Hindus and Muslims in this school

LUCKNOW – Schools across the country may have modified textbooks over the decades, but an institution in Lucknow has persisted with the Bhagavad Gita as a moral science textbook for the last 75 years. Hindu as well as Muslim students have to study it.

Besides being the “prescribed book” for the moral science subject, the …. Source  : Bhagavad Gita studied by Hindus and Muslims in this school.