Comments on: Proud to be ‘educated’? http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=proud-to-be-educated Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: MW http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-15054 Fri, 27 May 2022 03:17:45 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-15054 In reply to Shilpa Acharya.

Sorry saw this only now. No notification..

]]> By: Shilpa Acharya http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-15050 Wed, 18 May 2022 15:51:59 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-15050 Its an irony that Maria, you who came from Germany sees this clearly while none of us even question this. Mainly because we for years together have been trained to think what came from west is superior and our ancestors, their way of life was inferior. Its a shame that Mahabharata and Ramayana are labelled Mythology too.when they are clearly Itihasa (history)

The education system truly needs a revamp. And we are blessed some have identified this and have opened up Alternative Schools.
One such school in Bangalore is https://www.udhbhavaha.org/ where I am now sending my daughter ..
Please go through schools like these and forward to other parents who may be keen to provide such education to their children

]]> By: Suyog Ketkar http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13436 Wed, 09 May 2018 11:42:42 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13436 In reply to MW.

True that.

]]> By: MW http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13435 Wed, 09 May 2018 10:30:17 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13435 In reply to Suyog Ketkar.

You are right. Even a talent like Srinivas Ramanujan would have almost fallen through the system.

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]]> By: Suyog Ketkar http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13434 Wed, 09 May 2018 10:09:47 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13434 In reply to Suyog Ketkar.

*translates to MONEY, I meant.

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]]> By: Suyog Ketkar http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13433 Wed, 09 May 2018 10:08:04 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13433 I handsome share of what you write makes sense. I can relate to your question for I too had one or more during my schooling. I now know that the knowledge will be valued only if it translates to knowledge. Sentences like “What will you do with this knowledge snippet? When you go out in the market, people will pay you based on how much you scored in your exams” can very well tell you the value association. The trouble is that a one-person’s opinion is still a one-person’s opinion. But, when hundreds of us are talking the same thing, even lies turn to truths.

On the flipside, there are a lot of organizations (especially in the Information Technology domain) that require you to have scored good percentage in school. People get rejected from such organizations despite having the required work experience and skill set. Why are school marks given such an importance, while none of what was taught in the school would be put to use in daily work lives? You may find this question worth adding to the list you presented.

]]> By: Arun http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13432 Tue, 08 May 2018 18:36:07 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-13432 Happy that I am here! Thanks, Maria! It’s a mere irony that someone like you, who was to pass by India, had to raise such pertinent questions that have shaken the very foundation of our rich heritage! Good that you did! May you be blessed to carry out this mission!

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]]> By: Kashif Ansari http://mariawirth.com/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-12558 Sun, 16 Jul 2017 18:04:17 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/proud-to-be-educated/#comment-12558 Slavery to the west has really crippled many third world countries. But now slowly yet surely things are changing. All these multinational corporations and NGOs are getting their comeuppance as more indigenous knowledge and forms of culture and civilization begin to take root in the local soil. Thus such diseases of affluence as obesity and certain forms of mental illness will also be done away with in the near future since they are just the symptoms of wrong ways of eating and thinking. With right conduct and a more natural home-grown culture of doing rather than just vegetating, most people can begin to appreciate their own values and traditions which were right all along and had just been forgotten due to the curse of 200 years of colon-ialism.

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