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The Cost of Instruction, the Value of Education


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1 CSIR National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi 110 012, India
 

Cost, price, worth, value - we all know that these have similar but distinct connotations. Oscar Wilde dismissed as a cynic, anyone who could estimate the price but not the value. The global financial meltdown has been wrought by several clever people who thought they knew how to make these distinctions.
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Gangan Prathap
CSIR National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi 110 012, India

Abstract


Cost, price, worth, value - we all know that these have similar but distinct connotations. Oscar Wilde dismissed as a cynic, anyone who could estimate the price but not the value. The global financial meltdown has been wrought by several clever people who thought they knew how to make these distinctions.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv104%2Fi12%2F1605-1605