Educational Systems of the World and India': AAP leader Manish Sisodia begins new video series; efforts to create awareness about quality education

Former Delhi education minister and senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia has begun a new video series called "Education Systems of the World and India", with the aim to create awareness about the role of quality education in national progress.

In the first episode, which came out on Friday, Sisodia contrasted India's education system with Japan, Singapore, China, Canada and Finland, suggesting that these countries made world progress by making education reforms a priority.

Referring to global examples, he said that Singapore, having achieved independence almost two decades later than India, is now one of the richest countries in the world. He credited this change as achievable there because of the nation's strong education system. Likewise, he referred to the early national priority of Japan, China's focus on industriousness in schools, Canada's diverse and inclusive method and Finland's emphasis on teacher training and child-centered pedagogy as areas of study.

The series, he explained, was motivated by a public discussion he had with Grok AI on education. "Millions of individuals read our conversation, inquired, and made suggestions. There was a great interest in how the world teaches children and where India is placed in comparison. That's what inspired me to begin this series."

Sisodia contended that in order for India to realize meaningful change, education needs to be a top political priority. "India will only change when its education changes, and education will only change when the thinking of our leaders changes. If their thinking doesn't change -- change the leaders," said Sisodia.

He also warned against simply aping other nations' models, emphasizing the necessity of India establishing an education system appropriate to its own specific social and economic environment. 

"We are India. Our needs and ground realities are different. The country will change only when education changes," he further added.