Indians emigrated to USA have singly coached their children upto University Entrance examination like SAT thanks to provison of home schooling being there in USA.

In India at secondary and higher secondary level very little teaching gts done by teachers whose salaries are being paid by the Government. Many of these teachers run coaching classes outside school hours and often force students of their classes in school where they are employed to pay for their coaching classes.

Please read more at
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/114625/1/7589

I think Sebastian has the causal arrow the wrong way here. I think this should read:

“Education may or may not spark development, depending on whether DEMOGRAPHIC conditions favor it, but education certainly can spark a DEMOGRAPHIC takeoff.”

I’d like one, just one example of where mere economic policy provoked development absent the demographic transition. Just one will do.

IEB’s posted earlier about the woeful state of education in India. Sebastian Mallaby has an interesting [...]