[Ilugc] Interview of Linus Torvalds; He Also Speaks Of Sad Situation Of India
- From: santho89@xxxxxxxxx (santhosh kumar)
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 14:55:45 +0530
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:34 PM, technocraze <technocraze at gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/3/2011 12:51 PM, santhosh kumar wrote:
The most important problem is the poor quality of education and
curriculum
set forth. Final year engineering students are studying HTML and believe
me
ive seen people by hearting the tags, and scratch their heads when doing
a
practical exercise in HTML. Its that bad. To add to this, the quality of
faculties, people who have just completed thieir PG's which they
obviously
completed immediately after their UG is taken as a lecturer. Without any
real world knowledge what good are they to the students they teach.
Adding to it, the daily tests being conducted even in engineering
colleges. Recently i conducted a small meeting for students in my
relative circle. They told, that they have no time to spend for
learning other things, as they have daily drill tests. Can we save
our students from all these?
Sure, apart from just tests, there are bunch of useless activities, like
writing assignments, which are nothing but copying chunks of text from
various sources, with a bit of graphs, which students mostly copy, writing
observations notebooks and so forth. The question is are any of these
actually adding value? Giving assignment is not wrong but it must be
something that students will gain some knowledge, like giving them a
problem statement and ask them to write an algorithm or bring up their own
solutions and stuff like that, but to do this the staffs must be proficient
so as to give the problem sttatements in the first place which brings us
back to square one. So its all interconnected. Like many have said, this is
not something which can be mutated but should be evolved over a period of
time.
Regards,
Senthil
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