Most of the Indians think that America has better education system, excellent universities, better infrastructure etc etc. Majority of us have studied in an ordinary school (me not even CBSE!), some college and came out with average percentage. After hunting for 1 yr or so, end up getting a decent job.
When we were in college, GRE was our top priority, so that we can go to US for higher studies. Why? US has better education system, good universities or just because of dollars!
Today I was attending a training along with clients in US, we were around 12 people in the room. During lunch time, one of my collegues (Andy) asked, you would have loved to drink Kingfisher or TajMahal here. I said yeah, I miss that, though we don't get much of TajMahal (Its a beer brand!) in India. Then we just went into our normal conversation, Have you been to India blah blah.....! Then I noticed out of 12 people in that room 5 were of Indian origin.
Then Andy said you know around 5-6 years back, if I walk thru my aile, I hardly see an Indian in my office, but now I see six of them. You have made a really good progress. It may be because of your education system (!!). You guys have really good education system. American economy is going down, and you guys are coming up.
And he was really appreciative about Indian Education System. Then one of my Indian collegeues said, Indian universities take inspiration from US education system, we look towards MIT, Howard etc etc. Andy replied, I know only the university I studied in. These big universities don't make much difference unless you want to start your own business. Untill you are doing your job, who cares which university you are from!
Well I was suprised when he said, Indian education system is better. If you ask anyone in India, which is better, even without knowing they will say US system is better. But all might not be true!
I don't know what should be the conclusion, but it did kept me thinking for a while!
Monday, July 03, 2006
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