Goa, Aug. 28 -- MARIAN PINHEIRO

In almost every Indian house hold, the arrival of a child re arranges the family's priori ties overnight. Everything bends around the child's needs. As the child grows, schooling becomes the family's central preoccupa tion: which school, which teach ers, how the child is progressing. Parents instinctively understand that the family's future is bound up with the quality of the child's education. It is one of the most universal instincts in Indian so ciety. As far back as 1966, the Kothari Commission, India's first major post-Independence re view of education, recommend ed that the country spend at least 6 per cent of its Gross Na tional Product on education, ar guing that no nation could devel op without tr...