If one were to imagine the future of education that is relevant to India’s strengths, we cannot ape countries that are devoid of natural resources, and therefore are reliant purely on industry that is service oriented - technology, strategy etc. In short, the world doesn't need more coders or MBAs. 

The answer lies in going full circle back 500 years and relying on becoming the master makers of things that the world vied for. And this time, resisting the exploitation that came with that vying. 

For many centuries, vocational crafts such as carpentry, jewellery making or weaving were passed down from father to son, son-in-law, and so on, with no systemic public education systems that imparted this knowledge with all its trade secrets. 

In fact this was one (of many) reasons why clannish systems of marrying within one's community was perpetuated, to be able to channel this knowledge down and keep it. 

As we find global service industries crippling worldwide with ai replacing it, Its time to set up cutting edge universities that teach us how to conscientiously use our raw material to create the finest personal goods for the world, like we did during the peak of the Mughal reign, when our GDP was 30% of the world.  

What does this need? On the one hand, a bit of a change in mindset to understand that it's no longer going to be prestigious to make your child study engineering. Rather, perhaps you want them to study carpentry. 

And on the other, for us to look inward and see what technologies, resources and pedagogies work for us, enabling health (infra and training in villages to avoid urban crowding), atmasamman (by not wanting to ape the others), and environmental consciousness in order to nurture these resources.

Crafts that inherently were used to make rural objects for a rural way of life may not survive and that is fine. This isn't nostalgia for the way things used to be.  Rather it's the technology of beautiful objects that are functional for today's way of life - furniture, lights, clothes, jewellery, mural making etc. Not Bidri vases which unfortunately are highly non-functional. 

P.S: I understand that many crafts educational facilities exist today both state sponsored and private. However, unless these become aspirational centers of wealth creation, scientific advancement, and prestige (like going to a Cambridge), they will always be viewed as needing patronage, and not centers that attract the best talent in the world.