[Reader-list] Shame on IITs

[radhikarajen at vsnl.net]

Hi, 

A person who dares to teach shall never cease to learn, teacher is always a student.?

  Regards.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Baruk S. Jacob" <b_a_r_u_k at yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:41 pm
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Shame on IITs
Cc: sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>

> hi radhika,
> 
> the point, i think, was not reservations for students, but 
> reservations for teaching positions in the IITs.
> 
> regards,
> 
> ~baruk
> 
> http://bottlebroke.blogspot.com
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 7/18/08, radhikarajen at vsnl.net <radhikarajen at vsnl.net> 
> wrote:
> > From: radhikarajen at vsnl.net <radhikarajen at vsnl.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Shame on IITs
> > To: b_a_r_u_k at yahoo.com
> > Cc: "sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>, "Ranjith Thankappan" 
> <ranjit_hcu at yahoo.co.in>> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 12:35 PM
> > Reservation and quota is needed, BUT NOT for the individuals
> > of any caste or faith, IT IS needed to the funds in national
> > exchequer to provide basic education to all, to give them
> > opportunity to improve the skill sets, then best of all
> > communities and castes and faiths will have equal
> > opportunity to study any professional course with better
> > grasp and capacity to learn.
> > 
> >    Present system of langda HRD is only to garner votes
> > with the guise of uplifting the downtrodden, but in
> > reality, the individuals who get seats can not cope up as
> > the fundamental education that they got is skewed,
> > lopsided.
> > 
> >   Regards.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Baruk S. Jacob"
> > <b_a_r_u_k at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:09 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Shame on IITs
> > To: sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>, Ranjith Thankappan
> > <ranjit_hcu at yahoo.co.in>
> > 
> > > Hi Ranjith,
> > > 
> > > Read the article with interest-I am in the strange
> > position of 
> > > having seen both sides of the reservation debate, and
> > am yet to 
> > > really make up my mind. A snippet caught my eye,
> > though, 
> > > 
> > > "IIT-Delhi professor Pankaj Jalote said
> > reservation for students 
> > > had to be viewed differently from faculty reservation.
> > In case of 
> > > students, he said, there is no compromise on the
> > quality of 
> > > education. "But if selection of faculty is done
> > on anything else 
> > > but merit, it will affect education,"
> > > 
> > > Do you disagree with this? 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > ~Baruk
> > > 
> > > http://bottlebroke.blogspot.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- On Fri, 7/18/08, Ranjith Thankappan
> > <ranjit_hcu at yahoo.co.in> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > From: Ranjith Thankappan
> > <ranjit_hcu at yahoo.co.in>
> > > > Subject: [Reader-list] Shame on IITs
> > > > To: "sarai"
> > <reader-list at sarai.net>
> > > > Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 8:37 AM
> > > > hi
> > > > Few days back Manuwadi director (former) of IIT
> > Madras made
> > > > a comment “'HRD minister has injected AIDS
> > into
> > > > IITs” (Please visit this link for news
> > > > 
> > >
> > 
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/HRD_minister_has_injected_AIDS_into_IITs/articleshow/3176486.cms)>> 
> > > >  
> > > > these are the kind of "meritorious"
> > Directors
> > > > available to IITs. No wonder IITs produce IT
> > koolies for
> > > > the developed world and degraded to the extent of
> > > > brahmanism. what a shame!!
> > > > regards
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >       Explore your hobbies and interests. Go to
> > > > http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/
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