India is typicall in the way education is approached in this country. Right from when we are born we are stressed upon with importance of marks. Weare forced to sacrifice our dreams and we mug up all the textbooks. The topper is not the most intelligent guy , its just the most hard working guy - one who can mug up faster and retain it longer !
Why only schooling , look at evn MBA courses. Studetns are mostly freshers and interested more in marks and CGPA than anything related to practicall management learnings.
I asked a kid what do u wanna be - i expected an engineer or pilot or actor as an answer but pat came the reply - MBA. On being asked why MBA?, declared than MBA's have good jobs and thy are rich !!!
MBA institutes in our country take advantage of this and treat applicants like lesser mortals. One needs to apply separately to all institutes , give 100 different entrance tests and play according to whims and facies of the administration.
Even in corporate world one will find interiewer stressing on the candidates 10 yr old 12th standard marksheets !
Look at Indian Entrepreneurs. The reason we dont think big enough is coz of the Preserver's atitude our education and family system inbibes in us. We dont wanna think big and take risks. we just wanna keep wht we have intact.
Great that India has the brightest brains but till we realise that education is just a means to the end and not the end in itself - we will continue to work for countries like United States , and continue to be a third world country. Till then any1 who reffers India as a superpower definately needs to introspect a bit more and look behind all the hype.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Indian Education System
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2 comments:
Completely agree with you.
nice article but your saying that in corporate world 12th class mark sheet is looked is not true..i mean they dont look it out to decide who has got 90% in science n 75% in science...and i have a 90% in PCM and still struggling to make a mark here :)
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