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Does Our Education System Stifle Entrepreneurs?

5 points by jaybol 16y ago

irahul 16y ago
The education system, in India or any other nation, is largely broken. And it can't be fixed. The system has always been designed taking into account what suits the vast majority of students, and it's fair in a way. There is a lot to improve upon but even the improvement is going to focus on the dense parts of bell curve. The onus lies both on the parents and educators to realize that every kid is different from other and it isn't necessarily a good idea to force them to fit within the existing framework. No one can claim to create Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page etc. All that can be done is to provide environment and encouragement for kids who tend not to follow the convention. More than the super smart kids who suffocate in a system designed for mediocres, it's about kids who are living someone else's life - kids studying medicine because their parents asked them to, kids struggling through engineering because all their friends chose engineering, kids trying to be programmers because they have been told again and again that that's where the jobs are.... The article kinda nails the point but then goes astray citing bi-polar as CEO's disease. If you are reporting on a supposedly thought provoking subject, greater amount of responsibility is expected.
known 16y ago
Ideally Education System should create Employers and not Employees
fexl 16y ago
I liked what I saw in Lima, Peru: excellent private schools everywhere I walked throughout the city. Even the poor send their children to private schools. The elementary schools are brightly painted with pictures of happy children, flowers, and mottoes about healthy bodies and minds. Notices are posted about upcoming parent-teacher events. One prominent example is the "Albert Einstein Institute" for kids. Trade schools and universities abound. Near one major shopping center for computers and software, which occupied 5 whole floors of a building, I saw a large computer training school. I looked in the large windows from the street and saw rows of huge Apple monitors (30 inch I guess), must have been 50 of them, each with a student concentrating intently. I thought: there's the future, right there.

5 points by jaybol 16y ago

The education system, in India or any other nation, is largely broken. And it can't be fixed. The system has always been designed taking into account what suits the vast majority of students, and it's fair in a way. There is a lot to improve upon but even the improvement is going to focus on the dense parts of bell curve. The onus lies both on the parents and educators to realize that every kid is different from other and it isn't necessarily a good idea to force them to fit within the existing framework. No one can claim to create Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page etc. All that can be done is to provide environment and encouragement for kids who tend not to follow the convention. More than the super smart kids who suffocate in a system designed for mediocres, it's about kids who are living someone else's life - kids studying medicine because their parents asked them to, kids struggling through engineering because all their friends chose engineering, kids trying to be programmers because they have been told again and again that that's where the jobs are.... The article kinda nails the point but then goes astray citing bi-polar as CEO's disease. If you are reporting on a supposedly thought provoking subject, greater amount of responsibility is expected.

known 16y ago

Ideally Education System should create Employers and not Employees

fexl 16y ago

I liked what I saw in Lima, Peru: excellent private schools everywhere I walked throughout the city. Even the poor send their children to private schools. The elementary schools are brightly painted with pictures of happy children, flowers, and mottoes about healthy bodies and minds. Notices are posted about upcoming parent-teacher events. One prominent example is the "Albert Einstein Institute" for kids. Trade schools and universities abound. Near one major shopping center for computers and software, which occupied 5 whole floors of a building, I saw a large computer training school. I looked in the large windows from the street and saw rows of huge Apple monitors (30 inch I guess), must have been 50 of them, each with a student concentrating intently. I thought: there's the future, right there.