If you have always wanted to create an institution of learning here in India that actually teaches children to construct and nurture a model of the world that empowers them, and not one that simply equips them with skills for corporations to exploit, Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges is one of the books you need to read. It debunks the idea of a degree from Ivy League colleges in the U.S. being the wildcard it’s promoted to be for all opportunities its holder comes across.

Elizabeth Coleman’s incisive TED talk on the current state of education, which seems to encourage fragmentation and super-specialization in every area of knowledge, expanded upon in her speech delivered at her institution’s 75^th anniversary, will act as a clarion call to your capacity to build and deliver a more meaningful educational system to us.