Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’?
by mantas on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:31AM
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Fun part is, high school is/was the other way. USSR curriculum was full of stuff that 99% of students wouldn't ever use. There was little incentive to use anything in practice. You had to memorise, pass test and then you can forget it. This practice continues to this day in big parts of ex-Soviet sphere. I had plenty of teachers who took pride in saying that "stupid Americans learn this only in university!". Yet Americans I meet remember what they learned and know who to put it to use. Meanwhile I don't remember jack shit :D
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> I had plenty of teachers who took pride in saying that "stupid Americans learn this only in university!"
Can absolutely confirm this saying for Romania of the late '80s and throughout all of the '90s (so, even after the Wall had fallen).
It's still the same logic even today. Worst thing, updates programmes double down on pushing even more facts. While PISA scores are getting worse and worse. I guess it will take few generations to forget about glorious soviet schooling :(
You highlighted a very important. Getting degrees for sake of getting degrees.
This is a big thing in India too. People become engineers and then decide what they want to do.
My teachers and peers and even parents used to say this and I would always be mighty proud of it.