d). Reservation / Affirmative Actions: Do not punish the innocents of today for alleged discrimination by others in the past.

• “Demanding retribution for historic wrongs (eg: Reservation) is not the answer… Talent is a Country’s most precious asset… A great people, like in Britain, can reduce themselves to mediocrity by leveling down.” – Lee Kuan Yew.
• “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly (incompetency), is to fill the world with fools (incompetents).” – Herbert Spencer (1820-1903).
• “Universities should be in the business of excellence, not social engineering. But to ensure that gifted individuals from all backgrounds get to university because of their brains and not their purses (or castes), there should be full public scholarships for university study. If politicians would stop playing politics with higher education and would create an environment in which the quality of provision is the overriding determinant, the current problems would turn into their own solution.” – A. C. Grayling.
• “Upper classes are a Nation’s past, the middle class is its future.” – Ayn Rand.

To enable all students to compete on a realistically level field for entry into an institution of higher education, it is more important that good education be made more accessible to all at the school level, vide scholarships and even school vouchers. Thus reservation is not the answer, better opportunity at the right time is. (See “Education in the 21st Century”).

“Equal rights and equal opportunities, do not mean preferential treatment. Preferences no matter how well intended, ultimately breed resentment among the non-preferred. And preferential treatment demeans the achievement that (others from that group) win by their own efforts” – General Colin Powell

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