Very detailed and articulate response.
Are you sure you are studying in India? The NY Times article says that you are supposed to have very poor communication skills and who just memorizes things without understanding them.
I hope the idiots who think they know the whole education system in India read and can understand this.
'Master's level exams were being graded by 10 year-olds based on: length, neatness of writing, number of paragraphs, and the 'prettiness' of the graphs'
------- It is highly suspicious that this is true, even with all the negative comments that this post is receiving. How could you have known this?
'Any Indian with money can get a masters degree. If you pay your bill at exam time, they will pass you onto the next level'
-------- Your limited exposure gave you such tremendous insight huh? I pity the persons that you interview be it American or Indian.
'I just want to share my limited exposure'.
------- Dude, you did have very limited exposure.
Is it not ironic that the discussion starts of with 'Who gives a shit?' and yet the responses and comments seem to be endless.
I did my undergrad in engineering in India and did my Masters degree in the US and I worked in the engineering and IT fields. I certainly agree that there is more freedom to express ideas and flexibility in the learning process in the US, but it is far from what it needs to be. I had professors in my Masters degree program that would give Cs and Ds for students who did not use the specified font in the assignments and reports. There were many professors who absolutely did not encourage any questions in the class. My Masters degree was not very helpful in my engineering job either. We were taught design using software that the industry had long abandoned.
One thing the education system gives, both in India and in the US, is some good exercise for the brain to analyze, comprehend and solve problems in different domains.
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Very detailed and articulate response.
Are you sure you are studying in India? The NY Times article says that you are supposed to have very poor communication skills and who just memorizes things without understanding them.
I hope the idiots who think they know the whole education system in India read and can understand this.
'Master's level exams were being graded by 10 year-olds based on: length, neatness of writing, number of paragraphs, and the 'prettiness' of the graphs'
------- It is highly suspicious that this is true, even with all the negative comments that this post is receiving. How could you have known this?
'Any Indian with money can get a masters degree. If you pay your bill at exam time, they will pass you onto the next level'
-------- Your limited exposure gave you such tremendous insight huh? I pity the persons that you interview be it American or Indian.
'I just want to share my limited exposure'.
------- Dude, you did have very limited exposure.
I did my undergrad in engineering in India and did my Masters degree in the US and I worked in the engineering and IT fields. I certainly agree that there is more freedom to express ideas and flexibility in the learning process in the US, but it is far from what it needs to be. I had professors in my Masters degree program that would give Cs and Ds for students who did not use the specified font in the assignments and reports. There were many professors who absolutely did not encourage any questions in the class. My Masters degree was not very helpful in my engineering job either. We were taught design using software that the industry had long abandoned.
One thing the education system gives, both in India and in the US, is some good exercise for the brain to analyze, comprehend and solve problems in different domains.