What it means to have an uneducated leader
May 23, 2014 10:54
Extreme certitude, of the sort we observe in Gujarat's chief minister Narendra Modi, is actually a negative quality when coupled with a lack of proper education.
Modi has never been to college and his degree is from a correspondence course.
His writing, which is all in Gujarati, is mainly hagiography. It is mediocre (perhaps it will come to wider attention now that he is where he is) and shows little awareness of the world.
He has not travelled much outside India. Unfortunately, his English is also poor, which, in my opinion, has contributed to leaving his mind unopened because there is little access to the world for the Gujarati-only individual.
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Modi has never been to college and his degree is from a correspondence course.
His writing, which is all in Gujarati, is mainly hagiography. It is mediocre (perhaps it will come to wider attention now that he is where he is) and shows little awareness of the world.
He has not travelled much outside India. Unfortunately, his English is also poor, which, in my opinion, has contributed to leaving his mind unopened because there is little access to the world for the Gujarati-only individual.
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