may 17th, 2012 CEindianns have comprehensively screwed up education, but now there's a chance to recover. will be grab this opportunity? well, the bad guys are certainly likely to use it, if they are not already. so why not the good guys? for instance, all those who complain about left-wing bias -- you can build curricula that you make available on the web, with credit towards certification from a decent college. well, even if there is no certification here's an opportunity to make available factual (not ideologically politically correct) material to a global audience. also, increasing penetration of smartphones means that even lower-income students will be able to access this on a mobile device via streamed video, so you don't have to wait for high-bandwidth internet links to come up either. http://www.rediff.com/news/column/rethinking-education-in-india/20120510.htmhttp://www.rediff.com/news/column/is-the-future-of-education-leaving-india-in-the-dust/20120516.htm
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Can a Bell Labs survive in a free market economy? The words 'high cost of low price' come to mind.
I am surprised you have signed up to the latest fad in education. this net enabled education is a passing thing.
the real basis of learning is the emotional bond between the student and teacher (as recognized in our guru-shishya traditions). internet enabled education will simply replace one paper certificate factory (the university) with another e-paper certificate factory (net enabled classes).
I think the western university tradition of capital intensive, multi-disciplinary university will continue to produce great things in the physical sciences. the humanities are doomed if they stay in the university. I think they will eventually be replaced by 'specialist outsiders' working on the principle of collaborative projects by scholars. Rajiv Malhotra's book Breaking India is a good example with him and Arvindan Neelkanthan working together.
overall - it will be good for the humanities if this happens, because only genuinely interested and capable scholars will work on social science problems. As things stand humanities courses are just a means of reducing youth unemployement in the west and perpetuating a class of 'eminent donkeys' in India.
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