ss [06/10/10 09:31 +0530]:
Incidentally how many people on Silk can recall how to calculate the square
root of a number manually? If you were taught in the first place. How many
cooks need to know how to grow wheat or milk a cow? Or slaughter a cow for
that matter?
Having thrown my maths and
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote:
ss [06/10/10 09:31 +0530]:
The question would then arise as to whether most of what is taught - and
learnt with anywhere from resentment to resigned impatience - is any use at
all beyond HR managers insisting on
Had read this in a friend's dissertation on the education system and
this thread reminded me of it. I think it articulates pretty well what
the malaise in the system is:
They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become
blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment
there
It's not about what you learnt- the whole point of hiring people from a
certain institute is that you are picking people who were good enough to get
into that institute. By going to a top rated institute, you ensure you have
a working method of getting access to the 'top of the gene pool'.
On
On 10/5/10 9:01 PM October 5, 2010, ss wrote:
Incidentally how many people on Silk can recall how to calculate the square
root of a number manually?
Not that I was a product of the Indian education system, but I can
calculate a square root manually. It's not a particularly difficult
I calculate square roots manually using Newton-Raphson even though I
was taught the manual method, it's been entirely useless to me.
However Newton-Raphson continues to be useful.
I believe manual calculation of square roots to be a canonical example
of useless rote knowledge.
-- Charles
On
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:36 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
In any case your experiences with your son do not in any way repesent the
experience of the majority in the Indian education system. You are one of
the
elite who will bypass the system as long as possible.
Shiv, the point isn't
This is a deliberate top post.
Mahesh - while not denying the existence of all that you are talking about I
am extremely cynical about any change in the short to medium term
The phrase short-to medium term is selected deliberately by me. A person who
has a child and has to held that thild
