Indian Education As Seen By An American Educator on His First Trip To India

In January-February 2012, accompanied by his wife Ellen Winner and his son Andrew Gardner, both educators, Howard Gardner, Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education made a seven city, three and one half week trip to India. Gardner spoke informally about his impressions of precollegiate education in India, a collaboration that he and his team are carrying out with a chain of schools across India, and some aspects of education in which India differs from China and the US. Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of SAI, chaired the event.