World Through My Eye

 24 years of study, no skills. What did the education give me?  It did not give me the skills immediately after getting out of college, but it gave me certain thinking about "how to gather the skills anytime in future". It gave me a certain thinking for the long term. The study gave me an exposure to that thinking. For Example: The study did not make me an expert on computers and the internet immediately after college, but the study gave an exposure to it. The study told me that such tools exist to gather the knowledge in future. Because of the study, I can formulate a question, which if I ask google, google gives an appropriate answer. Imagine, if I do not know what question to ask google ! Then google will not give any answer and knowledge will not get added. In the recent era, skills are changing at lightening speed. If a skill is important today, it will get outdated tomorrow. But the "thinking" to gather ANY SKILL, will never get outdated. Did it give me the ap...

There is a lot of rage in India against the Indian Education system, considering why British established it (the intention behind establishing it)? Is it serving the modern needs of education? Let me first make it clear that I am a product of Indian Education system. And it served a great purpose for me in communicating with the world outside India and gathering world-wide knowledge. So I am a supporter of the British Established Indian Education System. It is also a fact that this system must have gone through many changes after Independence, but I am not a eye witness for the changes country-wide. Because I was not on the forum, making the changes. There are allegations on the British, that they wanted to educate only a small population just enough to act as an interpreter between masses and the British and had a small budget assigned to it. Other way to look at why British wanted only a few people to get introduced to this education system, might be 1. Any large change has to "...