On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>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 academics certificates before > your first job, and then insisting on hiring people from "the best schools" > to perform tasks that dont require the services of a nuclear physicist or > electrical engineer. > My common lament is that the 60s / 70s / 80s / 90s Indian parent dream of their son being an IIT-IIM is in reality about the kid learning 4 years of computer science followed by 2 years of marketing to then become an Excel-jockey investment banker at Goldman / Lehman. A complete waste of any and all government-subsidised education offered right through the process. Analogously, it is like learning 4 years of swimming followed by 2 years of knitting to then become a carpenter. The much-ballyhooed Indian education system that we apparently take great pride in is a chimera.
