Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Could you guys maybe start a new thread? None of this is related to my photos. Cheers Geoff *Australia, paying for the world's carbon sins, one tonne at a time**.* On 20 July 2011 12:54, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >