New Delhi, July 17 -- For the better part of a century, India's education system has trained humans to behave like machines-to calculate, memorise and follow logic-and perfected that craft just as machines began doing all three better than we could.

We still mass-produce the very skills artificial intelligence (AI) has made abundant and cheap, while the capacities AI cannot mimic-judgement, curiosity, the ability to ask the right question-remain an afterthought.

The old promise, that a skill and a degree guaranteed a stable career, is being dismantled by technology itself. India's education policy must learn how to keep learning.

The journey so far: Our policy has always been reactive to its moment. In 1968, a young nation used educati...