Education, beyond politics.
Four Saturday conversations asking a question every parent, teacher and student already feels but rarely gets to discuss openly: is the way we teach actually preparing anyone for what comes next? Free, in public, no party line.
Education debates usually become political ones.
Across Tamil Nadu and beyond, students clear exams without necessarily learning to think, question or apply what they’ve studied. This series is our attempt to step outside that pattern — a month of honest, evidence-based conversation about what’s actually working, what isn’t, and what education could still become.
No predetermined answers. Just four Saturdays of people who care about this thinking out loud, in public, together.
Four Saturdays, one question.
From whether the system works, to what it should deliver, to what we would build instead.
Is the current education system working?
A live debate weighing the real case for the system as it stands against its sharpest criticisms — where it genuinely succeeds, and where it falls short.
What should education actually deliver?
Employment, wisdom, quality of life — education is meant to serve all three. We ask what balance actually serves the next generation.
Ideas worth building
Concrete proposals for making education meaningful for this generation — and resilient to where learning, work and technology are heading next.
Where the month leaves us
A summary and synthesis of the month — what we heard, where views converged, and what’s worth carrying forward.
Every update lands on @tech_piparty first.
These sessions aren’t being live-streamed on a fixed platform. For how to join each week, any schedule changes, and recaps as the series unfolds, follow us.
Register to be part of the discussion.
Save your seat for all four Saturdays. Tell us who you are and we’ll keep you posted on how to join each session and any schedule changes.
Bring your disagreement. Session one includes genuine defenders of the current system.