ABSTRACT
While educational policies claim that “national development” is important for policy making, what is forgotten is that humanity is left out from its ambit. This chapter, as a philosophical reading of educational policy, stresses constitutional necessities like free and compulsory education, teachers’ character and personal qualifications, academic freedom and autonomy along with the development of scientific temper. It stresses the need to articulate the principles of democratic socialism to redefine education and national development. The humanist Marx is recalled, which highlights the idea of a universal human nature to define socialist morality and national development.
