Macaulay's education model is a reality even today, as our education system was first tuned to generate instruments to run the British regime and now generates robots to mindlessly serve the current masters.
Few realize this, but the CBSE board is a major factor in homogenising our national discourse and giving it an excessively Delhi dominated slant which is starting to rattle a lot of citizens.
We need to be aware that our books for Hindi are incredibly boring for young children. In an era of trains, planes, cars, computers and internet, the excited school student does not want to read a sermon on morals, culture or patriotism.