Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bharani, You got most of the education in India spot on, with all its disadvantages. But there are some surprising positives as well - as of now, I consider college here as a sort of vocational training for the service industry - no bad thing when you need 20 million jobs every 5 years or so. The educational system, for all its faults, also throws up a fair amount of creative and entrepreneurial people, maybe not as many as we would like, but it is not a waste land. They are also far less destructive than MBAs (which to me the most useless degree known to man) as well - remember the brightest brains of a generation routinely go on to sell toothpaste or mortgage backed securities - there is something in that curriculum that inculcates individual greed at the cost of society as a whole. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:01 AM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote: > dear gene + ric, > that is all true. > but a teacher who pushes the parents is invaluable too. > it takes everyone. > > and yes, chasing marks in some exam kills education completely. > it killed education in india 30 years ago already. > which is why you now have 1.1 billion people who know just what they need > to > be good little employees > in whatever is the current popular field (information technology for the > past 15 years) > and absolutely nothing beyond that. > :-( > even worse are schools in india who throw good children out because they > "will bring the school's top grade average down in the annual state exam"! > the children per se do not matter, nor does their actual education and > development. > school bragging rights trump all! > bharani > >