It is very much the same situation anywhere Rocky. In the Uk, I would actually enjoy and quite entertain the idea of being a university lecturer, but to be fair - I really could not earn as much doing so. The nearest I get to indulging it is when I teach students robot building at the club.
Orion -- http://orionrobots.co.uk - Build Robots On 4/26/05, Rocky Geddam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The following is neither really technical, nor a > question, nor an answer - it is a _long_ mail listing > my views on something related to technology, if > somebody believes this is the wrong place for this, > blow a whistle, let me know. > > Hi, > > Teachers have always been held in utmost reverence and > equated to god for centuries in India. <cliche> guru > devo.. </cliche>. sadly this is not the case anymore. > though people say things like what the parent mail > (below) says about admiration and teachers, it is not > the case in most engineering colleges in India. > > Teachers are among the lowest paid positions, and > thereby hardly attract any talent anymore. Most people > who end up as lecturers especially freshers, are there > because they do not have another option and they need > the cash. (No offence suchu_it, I'm making a > generalization here). > > If the teacher is not talented, or driven, it is hard > for him/her to command any respect from the students > they teach. they employ various methods to earn it, > I've seen the use of force and screaming - all my math > teachers, I've seen them become buddies with students > and smoking/drinking with them... all in all the > teacher-student relation does not remain the same > anymore. > > in sharp contrast, I am currently in the US and > teachers here are very different, most of them are > driven individuals and passionate about what they do, > money is not objective no 1. But then it also happens > that they end up co-founding companies with their > students and becoming honorary members of boards of > companies and money does not really cease to flow. > > I have a friend who is a brilliant student and a very > good thinker. He is completing his masters soon and is > planning going back to India and joining the > acadamicia. He has a vision for the program he is > planning to join, and is currently submitting project > proposals for award of funds in the tune of 100,000 > USD for robotics projects in India. But when his > parents heard about it, they started fighting him > tooth and nail. for a good student to become a teacher > is a bad thing to do? > > as the quality of teachers and teaching goes down in > India the quality of the technically trained workforce > graduating from these places goes down too. And that > will reflect on the quality of the work we put out. > > I'm not sure if there is an easy solution. > > Rocky > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tech4all/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
