On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Danese Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[fascinating account of Danese's childhood schooling snipped] > Okay, enough about me. I typed all of this out because I think my > experience speaks directly to the original topic. I would not have given up > the chance to attend this school because the academic education I received > fed my little geekess soul...but also because I got to see first hand the > high cost of that elitism. This sparked a train of thought in me. I belong (inter alia) to the TamBram elite. I strongly suspect that the kind of high cost you're talking about might be absent, at least in the more traditional societies, because of the utter focus on academic performance and 'centum' in the society at larger, which translates into a different set of high costs for the students [1]. Re-looking at the sentence I just typed, I think it will probably be gibberish to any non-TamBram. :-\ I will leave it as is, for some less distracted soul to translate for the list at large. Deepa? Ram? Cheeni? Udhay [1] http://www.vijayv.org/wwwvijayvorg/FunStuff/TamBramLegacy.php - though the tone of the piece is light, it speaks to a real set of issues. -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
