And look at 95% in Assam who cannot even get past Matric -- and do not get
these useless Degrees/Doctorates/Letters/Starmarks/Top iit-iim-aiiims etcs.
And the 5% live off the 95%.
What needs doing? By whom? When?
Things will change in 2020 as per Kalam-- India will be a developed Nation by
then!!
mm
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:45:57 -0700From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Assam]
Fulfilling a dream?To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
C-da,
tell it to the thousands and million who dream of getting into top colleges
after high school - in USA!!
UmeshChan 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 -0700From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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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doing WHAT?mm
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:39:09 -0700From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[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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