Educational qualification for Politicians

My opinion about this is;

Mandatory educational qualifications for politicians is a rightly debated topic as on one hand our country has a crucial need of educated MPs and MLAs, however, on the other hand, it risks marginalisation of a section of society who cannot afford quality education, or any education.

Moreover, there are numerous factors to keep in mind.

But first let’s get a fact straight- literacy does not equate with education, it’s a part of it, and many of our current leaders are literate but not educated — they lack manners, basic understanding and empathy.

Second thing, being literate does not necessarily make a person have empathy and manners.

Third thing, a person deprived of basic education and yet having a vast knowledge understanding of how a country should run or having innovative ideas to take our country forward should be classified as a person who is qualified for being an elected representative.

Fourth point is of marginalised sections of society who cannot afford education and thus might loose representation in the country: these people are citizens of our country and they should have access to affordable and quality education; but they don’t. This points to a systemic failure when the government schools of India cannot even provide basic elementary education to its citizens. This problem might be solved when we have in our parliament EDUCATED and responsible MPs.

So to present a solution;

There should be a qualification for the ministers, but it should not be a simple degree, but a test of sorts.

•This test should test the candidate’s (politicians) basic knowledge about the country, world and current affairs, along with critical thinking, mental agility, empathy, public and communication skills, and such.

• It should be conducted in all major regional languages of the country and have no prior requirements (basic 12th-grade schooling can be put as it) to make it accessible to all.

There will be many issues with this solution as well, and hurdles like corruption will prove challenging, but taking a step forward is crucial.

In my opinion, Education shouldn't be mandatory to play a role in Politics.

Democracy is of the people by the people, and for the people.

Nowadays, if we make education compulsory, it directly excludes millions of poor, rural and unprivileged citizens. Leadership is not born from degrees; it is born from experience, honesty, courage and connection with the people.

Nowadays, with a large range of education still not a good politician. In a democracy, voters have the power to choose. If people want an educated leader, they will elect them. The law should not decide who is worthy.

So, it should not be made compulsory.

"Education is powerful and important, but democracy is about choice".

Yes, we have completely agreed with this. There should be criteria for a political leader at least a graduate. We observe their language and tone of speaking. They also use vulgar and offensive words while communicating. Only speaking is not important in leadership, but quality speaking matters. The reservation is currently a hot topic in the news. As per our study, the leader should anounce 33% reservation for girls in all the fields. Because if the girls of a nation are educated, then the nation will make progress.

Hello Everyone,

In my opinion, Politics is all about what you do for the country, and for the people.

But today's condition is worse. Now. Politics is all about money!

In my opinion, politicians should be educated and have the skills to manage the country. Only a degree can not decide whether he/she will be a good politician it's their passion which determines it. Imagine a situation, In a village, there's a well-educated person, who has the right to stand in the elections. But because of the study he is living outside of the village he doesn't know the needs of people or what they want. Will he/ she be able to manage. ?

And. There's another person who is not educated but living in the village who knows what are the people's needs what they want. What is good for the village! What should be done for the village?

But when we see it from the country's perspective. The person should also be well educated as they will be able to understand what is good for the country and what is not. He will be able to talk In the parliament. !

So, In my opinion, The politician should be well-educated and should also have skills. !

Thank you.

My opinion is that every politician needs a minimum degree qualification. Because they ruled our country. In India, many of politicians don't have a minimum qualification even if they are not completing their matriculation.

But they did some acts in parliament And legislation without any knowledge. I think from the village level to the parliament level politicians need a qualification based on their designation.

In my opinion, both the educational background and degree and leadership skills are important. You cannot judge anyone on the basis of their degree, we never know how much potential they carry, their ability to think critically and problem solving skills. In political scenario, people of that country while voting for whom they like to be elected is important, they should have choose their candidate consciously, the most important aspect of this is that most of the people prefers to vote on caste basis in place of the qualification and character of the candidate. They thought that the candidate is of their caste and i.e. he/she will be helpful towards them. The candidate should also not try to get vote of a particular caste to which they belong, instead they must focus public as a whole. No person single-handedly can change the country, citizen also play a pivotal role in this.

Hi everyone.

My thought on this topic is that politician should have education qualification because of reason that if a person does not have proper knowledge how can he or she run a country if for example education minister doesn't even know how schools run so does this condition seems good if a sports minister doesn't even know that how cricket is played does it give any sense. In India, politicians only know how to disrespect the opposition party or how to gain votes.

If a person doesn't know how to speak in parliament do you think he can run the country? Only having skills always does not help. Sometimes having deep knowledge about your streams matters a lot. Now the condition is worse. Thank you.

In my opinion, compared to the present scenario every representative should be an educated person because the ministers don't know about their portfolios, and they even don't know how to talk in Parliament sessions or assemblies (because what they talk is listening in entire India, but simply they fought each other and talk bad words in front of media, see if a representative should talk like that it will impact on every citizen in India).

For example, a sports minister doesn't know about sports or how he can encourage our young youth into sports. They don't know what is present in the Constitution. If they appear in media they don't talk about what they did, talk about the opposition leader's mistakes.

So if a representative is well educated then our country is developed.

As to me, it is important that in politics there is a requirement of an educational degree because if a politician is nominated in the election then it's degree helps the citizens to think about that person, is he or she works well for them.

If a politician is more educated then he or she will think more about the good or bad for the citizens.

Yes, of course for becoming a good politician who can think, plan and execute for the development of society and the country, he needs good education and can understand all problems and his decisions benefit and are in favour of the condition of the country.