Comment its not the education system (Score 1) 1514
I am from India and I did all my schooling and UG back there, and am doing my masters over here in the US. Its kind off funny coz I dont see too many white ppl doing masters in engg. at all. Infact in my school for evey white student, there are 50-60 indian/chinese students in grad school.
I dont know if its coz of the problems in school education or if everybody who finished highschool/UG just goes out n gets a job for whatever salary they get.
In India, not much emphasis is given to alternative education or anything. High school students are not asked to create any powerpoint presentaions or write essays on history or anything too creative. Its just plain and simple classroom education where the teachers keep doing the same old job (not much creativity required), n students depends on the textbooks + notes the teachers gives during class for the exams (plain old system of paper and pen where many kids vomit out the stuff they memorized).
Kids are taught computer programming like BASIC since 3rd grade, and on high school level in C, C++/Java (these were all lastest additions).
I dunno when a country like india with a population of a billion and a huge rate of umemployment (atleast 10 times that of US), doesnt have too much worries about its education system with parents not making much complaints, when a well developed country like US worries abt it, especially when as far as I know students who graduate from high school/UG seem to be satisfied with whatever job they get ?
We have a school in India called IIT (Indian institute of technology), where students get admitted after they gradute out of highschool n then pass a entrance examination conductued specially for that school (only 2500 admitted out of 250,000 applicants). The funniest part is rich kids who cannot get into IIT, get admits into IVY league school in US.
China/India keep churning out 1000s of engineers for jobs in US.
Its just abt the students mindset, the teachers efforts to bring out the best in him and the efforts of parents at home that matters and has got nothing to do with the education system.
I dont know if its coz of the problems in school education or if everybody who finished highschool/UG just goes out n gets a job for whatever salary they get.
In India, not much emphasis is given to alternative education or anything. High school students are not asked to create any powerpoint presentaions or write essays on history or anything too creative. Its just plain and simple classroom education where the teachers keep doing the same old job (not much creativity required), n students depends on the textbooks + notes the teachers gives during class for the exams (plain old system of paper and pen where many kids vomit out the stuff they memorized).
Kids are taught computer programming like BASIC since 3rd grade, and on high school level in C, C++/Java (these were all lastest additions).
I dunno when a country like india with a population of a billion and a huge rate of umemployment (atleast 10 times that of US), doesnt have too much worries about its education system with parents not making much complaints, when a well developed country like US worries abt it, especially when as far as I know students who graduate from high school/UG seem to be satisfied with whatever job they get ?
We have a school in India called IIT (Indian institute of technology), where students get admitted after they gradute out of highschool n then pass a entrance examination conductued specially for that school (only 2500 admitted out of 250,000 applicants). The funniest part is rich kids who cannot get into IIT, get admits into IVY league school in US.
China/India keep churning out 1000s of engineers for jobs in US.
Its just abt the students mindset, the teachers efforts to bring out the best in him and the efforts of parents at home that matters and has got nothing to do with the education system.
