Educational qualification for Politicians

I personally don't think education should be compulsory. Because nowadays education is directly proportional to grades and nothing else but being a politician or a leader is truly a part of mental abilities. If we go acording to this debate. What happens if we consider that education is compulsory as usual everybody will get a degree by just agregate passing marks and then be a politician but a person with the best thoughts for the country will be discarded cause he could not afford education or just was not capable of doing anything according to our education. Cause its drafted by some one who passed the mpsc or upsc even if by reservation and the best minds were left behind the reservation race. Some of The best minds in the world are not educated. A sheet paper made by a person who himself got the job theough reservation or corruption cannot decide the future of a person. And the minds which would think the best of a country cannot be left behind for a silly reson like you did pass your HSC.

No, education doesn't play a vital role in politics they need high IQ and good ability in problem-solving.

Hai friends, according to me, educational qualification is a must for politics. The current system in India was very worst. Because they didn't know their duties. Corruption and development will be change only by the means of good rulers. So, minimum qualification in education is a must.

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Can I know what is meant by half knowledge? I think we are not dealing with studies so that half knowledge leads to failure in the examination, we are dealing with service to the people. Persons stand by the people when he wants to do something to the people because he knows that what does his community wants and he knows which is the proper way to deal with a particular problem. I think this doesn't require education this requires only presence of mind to deals with problems of people.

INDIA - Independent nation declared in august.
India got it's independence in the year 1947 and constitution was enacted in the year 1950.Constitution of India consisting of 395 articles & 12 schedules at present.

Politicians are those group of people who serves the entire nation and plays an important role in developing our country INDIA.
In India Political leaders role is not meant for serving their duties and responsibilities but has become an open competition in our societies for their independent as well as party fame. Like everybody knows politicians make vastly unrealistic promises before elections but as soon as the party wins promises get crushed under the foots along with their pamphlets seeking votes.

There is no article in the constitution nor any guidelines mentioning the education qualifications of the politicians who would rule India and it's states. It is predominant to look into this matter because India is still labeled as developing country.

I consider education is must to contest in an election because education will provide a clarity to understand our system. It helps us to pin point exactly the flaw in our system and gives a remedy to improve the society. Moreover, education is the prime factor to understand ethics, morality, innovation etc. Widespread of knowledge will, in turn, be cause for better democracy.
In INDIA majority of cabinet ministers are holding their positions in those fields in which they have no knowledge if we look into their past experiences or education qualification.

Note that, As per the rules If a Indian student opts arts field in his matriculation he cannot apply for the science field areas. However a person can become a cabinet minister of any field whether it is of civil aviation , consumer affairs, chemicals ,etc. even if he has not gone to school a single day of his life.

A politician should only rule the country when they are enough educated and have a strong political knowledge.
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Yes, I think education is more important and it should be compulsory in Indian politics.

In South Africa, the level of education for politicians is probably among the lowest in the world. Ex-President Jacob Zuma has only a Standard 6 certificate, meaning that he has a primary school education only.

I predict that 100 years from now one of 2 scenarios will exist. Either the world would have completely destroyed itself through a world nuclear war or the accepted governing system of the world will be the elimination of the voting system and consequently the elimination of politicians. Leaders will need to pass intelligent examinations based on the field of leadership they are seeking. Engineers and technically qualified personnel already ignore stupid laws and communicate with each other all over the world. No person will ever single-handedly be in a position to declare war on any other group of people and in fact war will become impossible, weapons will not be allowed and a minmum collection of humanitarian laws will rule the world.

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.

I think, education for politicians is very important because they are leading our nation. If thy are illiterate will take a bad decision for the nation. Here another aspect regarding literacy of politicians is that they are a lawmaker, an illiterate person even don't know about laws and unable to read contexts.

All we need is political mind, not education qualification Eg: Narendra Modi, PM of India not so much studied but now governing India.