[Assam] Counterpoint: elite college education

[umesh sharma]

http://www.news.harvard.edu/worldmedia/botswana/stories/students.html

study abroad takes students to see AIDS patients in Africa, why not India - 5 million AIDS/HIV patients - second highest in the world!!????

Is that something to be proud of (for India)?
Umesh


--- On Sun, 29/6/08, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
Subject: Counterpoint: elite college education
To: assam at assamnet.org
Date: Sunday, 29 June, 2008, 3:07 AM


http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html

interesting perspective , though not always true.
However, there are indeed a few, I have encountered , in person or thru online interactions, who fit the bill, perfectly.

you will find them in old boy networks of any region's elite , even Delhi, Jaipur and perhaps Guwahati, and you will feel like complaining only if you have occasion to be at the receiving end.
joining the elite liberates you- was that Amartya' Sen, the Nobel laureate's message when he said the education is freedom?

any comments?

Umesh Sharma



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