Lots happening for me at work. I think the last time I enjoyed so much learning was in one of my Operations Research classes by Mr. Srinivasan. He taught brilliantly, very aware of that simple killer of a question in every student’s mind – “How is this going to be useful to me?”.
The best part about learning at work is -
- you learn by yourself and
- you find answer for the killer question above so easily.
The teaching in my MBA program was so different and more industry-focussed than my Undergraduate course. If India is to satisfy the growing quality needs of the job market, we really need to critically look into our Education methods. We should come about with a requirement that every college should have a certain minimum percentage of teachers who are from the industry. Or maybe every corporate in India should think about having a certain percentage of their top executives do their society-serving by doing some teaching. We need to have teachers who can bring relevance in our education.
To create that “thirst for Education”, let’s show some water.
#1 by Jo on September 11, 2007 - 11:28 pm
every corporate in India should think about having a certain percentage of their top executives do their society-serving by doing some teaching
Yes, it is very much a good idea indeed. But coming to those who in need, what they need is food before education. So perhaps while the corporate bigwigs fund the basic needs, their top execs can teach those poor children.