Hey! > > you just sent your name and details on a public > mailing list with > perhaps thousands of subscribers, in delhi. did i > mention the list *may* > have several lurkers from the instt you mention?
Hehe, good thinking! ;) I was just thinking (and let me not be flamebait foe this!) - does learning Linux (or for that matter windows or what have you) really require an insitute? Lets see what an institute *should give you, in terms of infrastructure and instructors. 1)A/C labs with machines running the required software 2)Course material with excercises and things 3)Experienced faculty 4)A certificate (in or without association with an company like RedHat) Now, based on certain bad experiences which people have made public on the list (including but not limited to inferior facilities, inexperienced instructors etc), as well as having come across people who've faced similar experiences, why don't we decide before hand whether an institute is up to the mark or not? Now, that in itself is a tough task, since there exist no *definite certification guidelines (is the ISO or something valid here?). And, It is obviously not possible for a newbie to determine the standards being followed at any of these institutes. Another important factor here is, most graduates of such institutes rejoin them as faculty, without gaining too much practical and application specific knowledge (Correct me if I'm wrong). The result is imparting knowledge which itself is partial. (As an example, if someone is taught by an instructor, he/she doesnt gain 100% of the knowledge which the latter has. At the very max, may be about 70%. If this person then goes to teach another newbie, the resulting decline is easily noticeable.) Maybe its possible for the community to actually get together and form/or propogate a certification scheme? or at the very least, do (on a volunteer basis) a review of the more famous institutes as a guide to neophytes. and IMHO, getting your hands dirty sitting on a computer, with a couple of tutorials on the side, and actually *working on something new beats going through a book from cover to cover. Unless you actually try and manipulate your computer to do something, you're really not going to learn much. And as sorry to as I am to say it, most institutes (and even a few universities) hardly give focus to practical matters. (BTW, I'm currently *Not in Delhi, and these statements are *not directed at any particualr institute or individual on this mailing list. This is a general amalgamation of my thoughts :-) Regards, vik ===== -- Viksit Gaur http://www.viksit.com me[at]viksit.com viksit[at]linux-delhi[dot]org 'Not all who wander are lost.' - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
