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 the
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:36 AM, ss 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 about being eli
On Wednesday 06 Oct 2010 10:19:11 am Mahesh Murthy wrote:
> The first ever exam that happens in his life will be the IGCSE / IB in the
> 10th grade. And here is the IB policy on calculators:
>
Good for your son.
In any case your experiences with your son do not in any way repesent the
experienc
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 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
proces
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 Wed,
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
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 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 seeing academi
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
