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Can India Produce the Next Steve Jobs?
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 01:41 IST |
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1. Education System in India:
A very critical reason. If you compare what propels the economy of the most successful nations today, it is education. What form of education system we follow is very important. "Tell me the books you read and I will tell your character", goes the saying. The education system that we follow is fit only for "conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population," says Thomas Babington Macaulay, Indian governor-general's Council of India between 1834 and 1838. Our system is so rigid that it pushes us into one narrow path of education with no way back once one is inside it. One doesn't have the leeway to actually move away from what one is ordained to by the system. On the contrary, the American model offers you flexibility in courses at the academic level. You can pick up a course in Painting while doing a major in Mechanical Engineering. This ability to compliment the engineering or core science with aesthetics is an asset whose importance was exemplified by people like Steve Jobs. The introduction of choice will enable better academic performance of students and will elevate the quality of education. Aditya Dev Sood, the founder and chief executive of the Center for Knowledge Societies, a consulting firm that works in what may be considered Jobs' pet areas: user experience design and innovation management told New York Times "Indian education system prepares us for society by a series of instrumental grading mechanisms that treat us like chickens in a hatchery."
The Indian model or the erstwhile British model (the Indian model's source) has its own set of advantages in terms of enhancing our mental storage potential but it is too rigid for today's world.
