Comments on: E-Drexler in India — where do all the visitors come from? http://metamodern.com/2009/11/02/e-drexler-in-india-%e2%80%94-where-do-all-the-visitors-come-from/ The Trajectory of Technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:15:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Asian Universities are Lagging (according to lagging indicators) http://metamodern.com/2009/11/02/e-drexler-in-india-%e2%80%94-where-do-all-the-visitors-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-2020 Asian Universities are Lagging (according to lagging indicators) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:35:18 +0000 http://metamodern.com/?p=5463#comment-2020 [...] E-Drexler in India — where do all the visitors come from? [...] [...] E-Drexler in India — where do all the visitors come from? [...]

]]> By: Eric Drexler http://metamodern.com/2009/11/02/e-drexler-in-india-%e2%80%94-where-do-all-the-visitors-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-2016 Eric Drexler Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:03:29 +0000 http://metamodern.com/?p=5463#comment-2016 @ fiaorsh — Thanks for your remarks, which note important questions and facts relevant to understanding Indian education as whole. My response grew into this post <a href="http://metamodern.com/2009/11/05/indian-education-top-to-bottom/" rel="nofollow">“Indian education, top to bottom”</a>. @ fiaorsh — Thanks for your remarks, which note important questions and facts relevant to understanding Indian education as whole. My response grew into this post “Indian education, top to bottom”.

]]> By: MyMyMy http://metamodern.com/2009/11/02/e-drexler-in-india-%e2%80%94-where-do-all-the-visitors-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-2014 MyMyMy Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:37:28 +0000 http://metamodern.com/?p=5463#comment-2014 fiaorsh, you have to remember something: "The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's... ... Is GREATER than the total population of United States." <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY" rel="nofollow">- Did you know? by SingularityU</a> fiaorsh, you have to remember something:

“The 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ’s…
… Is GREATER than the total population of United States.” - Did you know? by SingularityU

]]> By: fiaorsh http://metamodern.com/2009/11/02/e-drexler-in-india-%e2%80%94-where-do-all-the-visitors-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-2013 fiaorsh Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:32:49 +0000 http://metamodern.com/?p=5463#comment-2013 Please try not to be so sweepingly generalized about the Indian educational system, even in the science and math. "This widespread interest and implied level of knowledge both fit with what I encountered when visiting India (especially at IIT Delhi and IISC in Bangalore), and they are also consistent with the quality of Indian education in science and mathematics." No doubt Indians will feel flattered, since they are always desperately in need of any westerner's approval. However that is an absolutely nonsensical observation. Your experience has perhaps been with those who belong to the fraction of the top percent of people who get to attend the IITs and IISCs in India. To top that, those are institutions that still do not rank in the top 100 of the world's best educational institutions, despite their oh so glorious scientific and technical education. Look at the real statistics and ground realities, and you will discover that the Indian educational system, at high school or college level is abysmally bad for the incomprehensibly vast majority of people in India. The dysfunctional system has actually lead an alarming decrease in functional literacy and the inability to generate a coherent or articulate thought for most, including the educated elite. Taking your approach if I look at people I only know from Stanford, Harvard and MIT and consider them the representatives of all Americans, well then all Americans are absolute geniuses! Please try not to be so sweepingly generalized about the Indian educational system, even in the science and math.

“This widespread interest and implied level of knowledge both fit with what I encountered when visiting India (especially at IIT Delhi and IISC in Bangalore), and they are also consistent with the quality of Indian education in science and mathematics.”

No doubt Indians will feel flattered, since they are always desperately in need of any westerner’s approval. However that is an absolutely nonsensical observation.

Your experience has perhaps been with those who belong to the fraction of the top percent of people who get to attend the IITs and IISCs in India. To top that, those are institutions that still do not rank in the top 100 of the world’s best educational institutions, despite their oh so glorious scientific and technical education.

Look at the real statistics and ground realities, and you will discover that the Indian educational system, at high school or college level is abysmally bad for the incomprehensibly vast majority of people in India. The dysfunctional system has actually lead an alarming decrease in functional literacy and the inability to generate a coherent or articulate thought for most, including the educated elite.

Taking your approach if I look at people I only know from Stanford, Harvard and MIT and consider them the representatives of all Americans, well then all Americans are absolute geniuses!

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