He made lot of money doing fake video's and sensalizing issues. What did he do to upturn the education system? Why blame others? Why such a headline rediff ??
He blamed funding by rich to temples but who does not. It's not rich's job to fund for anything, its up to them. Its failure on the part of government, to be put bluntly. Afterall, so many private schools, colleges, coaching classes do good. They do not bring in people from heaven for god's sake. They are people among us. Government functioning and bureaucrats are so corrupt that nothing seems visible to them beyond their family, relative, district or state.
Beside, all the terrorists funding comes from Gulf and their aaka's around world. Government don't have any machinery to track illegal hawala's. Government pays Haj subsidies.
Why blame other's when the main goal out of political career is to make money?
Sure we need corporates to live up to their social responsibilites and fund social development, but it is also time to change the focus of our primary education steeped in the colonial traditions of learning by rote to an education system based on learning by interest and inquisitveness, specially at the high school level. It is also necessary to encourage creativity and problem solving skills in the youngsters so that we can graduate from a nation of service providers to a nation of solution providers and inventors.
Re: Corporate involvement in social development
by Jas on Dec 21, 2009 10:53 AM
When people see that zillion of rupees collected in taxes end up in pockets of KARUNA NIDHI, MADHU KODA, MAYAWATI STATUES...
what makes you think people will want to shell out more again!
India needs a common syllabus and uniform study from kindergarden to university level. there should be facilities to study local language but one main langauge after high school should make compelsory.
no caste-no reservation- help the education field with more fund so that each and every poor can afford good education.
is any political party have that guts? might scared about the vote bank.. so indian education is divided i to several wil be same like that only.
US education system is good only at graduate and higher level. Otherwise, it is not really impressive. Many undergraduate engineering students in the US who are in their third year do not even know partial differentiation. And most of them are not even aware of what the sine of 180 degrees is!
Re: US education system
by Happy Indian on Dec 21, 2009 01:23 AM
What you said about American undergrad education is true.
But my biggest problem with Indian education system is that teachers aren't encouraging at all, they look down upon students from lower backgrounds. They are lazy and have stupid rules like you can't talk to your friends out of school, shouldn't talk to teachers, shouldn't talk in native language.
Re: US education system
by Raphael Mathew on Dec 20, 2009 11:15 PM
if someone thaught you a lot of shit when you were young and playing rather than mugging your brains - which you will never use do you want to say that everyone should study it, do you think a student who graduates from US cant learn this on his own if need be - they are not rocket science if you can learn it or mugg it up why cant they do what you did at kindergarden or junior school after being graduates I think your school of thaught is wrong you need a 360 degree change
Re: Re: US education system
by fun lover on Dec 20, 2009 11:18 PM
You seem to be over sensitive and outraged for no reason. If you call partial differentiation and trigonometry as pieces of shit, then I am sure you have no idea of either engineering or mathematics.
Re: Re: Re: US education system
by Jas on Dec 21, 2009 10:55 AM
You are right. Partial Differentiation is the Fundamental requirement for building a house ;-)
Re: Re: US education system
by Happy Indian on Dec 21, 2009 01:28 AM
You don't have to memorize everything. But there are certain things that you DO need to memorize. You cannot become a chemist without memorizing functional groups.
It is good to see Mr Tarun analyse the education system in India and give people his enlightened opinion. However saying that the rich fund temples in a negative connotation simply exhibits his ignorance and prejiduce. The christians build a thousand churches every year in the constant endeavour to change the geopolotical fabric of our society, something that can harm our integrity and is dangerous in the long run. Selling God and making it look holy is a practice they follow. Mr Tarun, please be fair in your statements, or else you may get branded a secularist with a negative connotation and a sarcastic undertone.
Re: Re: reply
by KS Powar on Dec 20, 2009 11:00 PM
That is what Mr. Tarun is pointing out at, the fact that government schools are at best poorly equipped leaving little option.
First of all the temples are illegally controlled by the govt, instead of trust.There is a minister for temples in every govt, because of the huge lands that are under the temple trust,and politians are corrupted enough to eat god's property. Hinduism cannot survive if we all dont act now.with already external forces trying to multiply and also people converting
If education reaches to all, how can u rule like leaders are today.Today's leaders are moving like a miscreant under security. Remember days,kings were moving at night to see how persons are.now ministers thinks their own security.
Whenever any issue concerning our country is raised in any public forum, a blame game begins. First we question the integrity and intetions of the person who raises this issue. We start blaming a religion, a caste, a linguistic group or some section of indians. While there maybe malafide intentions of the person who speaks out about some issue, we entirely forget to recognize the genuine problem that is faced by us. I suppose he should have said In India the rich fund churches, gurudwaras, mosques, temples, and shrines. I think that would include most of us in our country. We forget that our country does face the problem for low quality of education and many other ills. These problems need to be faced unitedly. We all have a common problem. Our children means Hindu children, Christian children, Muslim children, Sikh children, and children of all religion - above all INDIAN CHILDREN! Why do we forget this whenever any issue is raised by anybody in our country????
Re: are there any indians in india?
by RSSFakeNationlist on Dec 20, 2009 04:52 PM
Because people are divided in our country based on religion faith comes first for all not just for one community, believe it or not.
D. Goel Pkl. afternoon, 2.55pm, Sunday, 20th Dec. 2009 While what Sri Tarun Tejpal speaks in the Interview about poor condition of our majority Schools in poor neighbourhoods is true and we do need to revamp our Primary Schools to a very large measure;it is quite unfortunate that Rich corporate millionaires hardly ever launch good Common Schools for every body's Children and not for elite Broods , as lately some have started launching such Schools , too. i find that turf is occupied by Christian Church appartchicks who wish to create a west oriented generation through their objectionable preachings and subtle cultural drift. The same is true of Army institutions, that continue to perpetuate Colonial Hang-overs,still. The Rich Corporates are basically reactionary in their beliefs and share Casteist Mentality. We need A secular, modern elite for an Egalitarian Education which is still not emerging! D. Goel
