C-da,
Ofcourse you could have become what you are by going to the local govt engg
college -- and never went to IIT without dreaming of being an IIT engineer. So
also for your Stanford educated daughter - she never dreamed of being there. It
all happened by chance :-)
Umesh
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not that it needed any validation from you, but you just proved my
point, once again, Umesh.
At 7:45 AM -0700 6/11/07, umesh sharma wrote:
C-da, tell it to the thousands and million who dream of getting into top
colleges after high school - in USA!! Umesh
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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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
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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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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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