The most important term of reference for the Saman School Pranali Ayog calls for it to specifically recommendways and means to give effect to Right to Education under Article 21A of the constitution within theframework of a common School System. In presents a brief history of the Right to Education (RTE) in theinternational and the Indian context. It has also been argued in this paper that the rights to education remainsa rhetoric if it is not integrated with equality in educational opportunity and social justice. Furthermore, theCommission regards education a matter of child’s right in contrast to her need, and believes that the Statemust respond to the right as its sovereign duty, and not just as a part of its welfare or humanitarian agenda.Education in the Western world, prior to the age of Enlightenment in Europe, was considered primarily theresponsibility of parents and the Church. Education as a matter of public concern’ is the product of themodern secular State. The French and American revolutions gave a ‘fillin’ to the process of the‘democratization of education and moving away from its being the exclusive preserve of a particularsocial class’. Public education was perceive as a means of realizing the egalitarian ideals upon whichthese revolutions were based’. Despite education being regarded as a pre-existing and natural right’, itdid not find a specific mention in the classical civil liberties instruments such as the English bill ofRights of 1689, the American Declaration of independence of 1776 and the French Declaration of theRight of Man of 1789 (ibid). However, the Rights of Man contained roots of the modern thought ofinclusion about equality, respect and decent education for all.’ The rise of socialism and liberalism in thenineteenth century led nation States to promote education as a matter of citizen’s right and incorporate itin their Constitutions and legislations.
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