Education and Moral Quest

Keeping in lime with his Indian interpretation of critical theory, Pathak's education would have two necessary components: first, it would teach reflexivity, a connecting of the self with knowledge, to participate, to laugh, to suffer in the process of knowing, and thence to awaken the self and get the Inarmer to think about what she is learning; and second, it would cultivate a bomd of compassion and understanding, not one of domination or conquest, with the subject that is being studied.

-Contemporary Education Dialogue

Pathak's stand against the neo-liberal backlash is unique by its philosophical grounding. Approaching from a transdisciplinary perspective, he attempts to cover the broad contours of developmental debate in India's education. He provides a philosophical critique of neo-liberalism from the framework of the sociology of education. His central arguments in this book run counter to the stark current social reality that treats education as a marketable commodity.

-Sociological Bulletin