C'da Mornin! Sometimes it looks like I am here to always take a different position than you :) :)
Most people in India (today and I guess before as well)) know very well what admissions to a good institution means and what kind of degrees are better. For instance, engineers and doctors graduating from India have almost always done quite well ($$ wise). Now, that doesn't mean a History or an English major from say a non-descript school may not do well professionally or even self-actualization. Today's India is very much different from what you and I came from. Its a more intense rat race there as ever. When Indians come here , most are able to do quite well professionally - specially in the sciences, engineering, software etc. Why is that? Are you per chance suggesting that the quality of education/and or training (from India) has little value? And they have been able to fool American employers for such a long time? This "degree culture" you talk about implies that a degree are "just a piece of paper" so lets not worry about it. And because Indians are obssesses with them - they must, by default, be useless! --- nothing could be further from the truth. The "degree" may be a get-your-foot-in-the-door for many jobs, but obviously, I can't practice medicine (even if allowed) if I don't have the training - can I? --Ram On 6/11/07, 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 ------------------------------ 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: .ExternalClass P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;} Now You need Introspection!! 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 Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ ------------------------------ Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it now<http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU> . ------------------------------ Want to look great? Get expert opinion on beauty and skin care. Ask the expert! <http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default01.htm> _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ ------------------------------ Too much spam? Try Yahoo! Mail<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailuk/taglines/hotmail/inbox_junk/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48524/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html>and we'll help keep the junk out of your inbox. ------------------------------ The idiot box is no longer passe; It's making news and how! <http://content.msn.co.in/Entertainment/TV/Default.aspx> _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
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