Umesh's, like so many others' from India, 'dreams' are formed with
the profoundly faulty notion that getting this degree or that or
getting a top ranking in exams. or even getting admitted to this or
that institution, is the END, the GOAL. Education as preparation,
just the beginning, and learning as something more than mere means
for a livelihood is an alien idea.
There are a number of reasons how this faulty notion took hold and
has not yet been shaken loose, even amongst those who live in
societies where the 'degree culture' is not pervasive.
At 5:19 PM +0530 6/11/07, mc mahant wrote:
In Shakespeare we read long time back:
"Ambition must be made of sterner stuff"
Keep going!!
mm
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:09:13 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Assam] Fulfilling a dream?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
n dreams, for thast what. I apllied for PhD two times - but I am not
giving up . but have to do it part time only since I am on full time
work visa.
Umesh
mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Dreaming of doing WHAT?
mm
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:39:09 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Assam] Fulfilling a dream?
Hi,
I just read a letter (2 pages long -with writings on the side also)
from a 69 yearold gentleman who still says (after all these years)
that getting into PhD is a matter of do or die (for me). He was
perhpas the only person in India who really supported my journey
westwards and got me involved in fire worship (yagna) and its
benefits amidst chantings - Vedas style.
He took me to Aligarh where his real brother in law led a retired
life after 30 years as professor of math at Univ of California ,
Berkeley (who disuaded me from going to US) - he had left India to
become a professor there directly (not as a student) after teaching
at Aligarh Muslim Univ. Further, this 69 year old gentleman's real
unlce had come westwards as a student and become a professor at
Stanford - as the Berkeley professor attested "His uncle was at
Stanford and I was at Berkeley " (they are just a few miles apart).
Today I bettered my GRE score substantially (unknown to the old man)
and walked back home 2 miles (unlike the last time where I was holed
for two weeks in Allahabad 500 miles from home) -esp the verbal
section. I did not prepare at all -since I have been tutoring these
very things .
More later.
Umesh
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