Dear Roland, There are many myths propagated about Americans by Indians but none that I dislike more than the one that assumes intellectual superiority over Americans. America is home to be best and brightest, and I find it incredibly hard to believe that Harvard and Yale students failed IIT entrance exams while reciprocally IITs aced University tests. If we are to compare then, we must compare apples with apples. Which universities were these? Was it Stanford, MIT, Columbia? Or one of those Universities advertised on TV with a nice jingle at the end?
I know parents here who disdainfully send their kids back to India, because American education is too lax for thier taste. Really? What are they sending their kids back to? 10 years of primary school, learning by rote and cramming everything from a guide book at exam time to secure the much need percentage to get into a professional college? I wish someone would do a parity study between India and America to see how many historians, writers, philosophers, scientists, doctors are produced per 100,000 students. Then we'd get a better picture of the intellectual wealth of each country. Just because India managed to supply the former colonies of the British Empire with Accountants and now supplies America with IT technicians doesn't make the India system one to be garlanded with accolades. It merely speaks of an undue emphasis on Maths. One that has served the country well but neglects other aspects of a well rounded education. Selma --------------------------- --- Roland Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I happened to be in conversation in Toronto with a > Goan father of a > young lad studying at Harvard and he was mentioning > thus: > > As part of their undergraduate studies, in the third > year Harvard, > Yale and in fact some more Ivy League schools are > requiring their > business students to spend a year of studies in a > comparable level > school in developing countries. For India therefore, > the IITs are a > natural choice. In exchange, they are allowing the > IITans to spend a > year in their own universities. > > It appears that an entrance exam is required both > ways and when they > are scored, the Harvarders and Yalies failed the IIT > tests while the > IITans aced the US universities' tests. > > Could this really be true? > > -- > Roland Francis > _______________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
