Prejudice
When I was at Delhi Airport waiting to take flight to Ahemdabad, I had this telephonic interview. There were two positions - Advisor to Head and Project Manager. And so the talks start.
The person asked me about my educational qualifications, probed about marks and finally if I have any achievements in education to share. In between he said something like - "The person whom you shall be working with has done it from M-IT institute and as you can understand he is quite keen to have someone who is from the local I-IT institute of India. But he is also okay if the person has some work experience in research.". Don't know but I got disconnected with the process after hearing the above lines from the proxy. He tried to ask me about my research work etc but by then I had lost interest in continuing the talk. Nope, haven't have talked with that head but now I don't want to be talking to him even if asked.
The boy may be literate from X-IT but he surely ain't educated. To me, he seems to have a stereotyped brain which can possibly produce only repetitive research but will have difficulty producing new ideas.
When kid we had these chapters, short biographies of world scientists. Many of those biographies had something common. These scientists were underachiever in scoring, in education. But each one of them had enough curiosity potion that drove them around exploring and experimenting. When I was in tenth standard my teacher told me that I should join IIT even though I was not the top scorer in the class. But for some reasons I didn't want to. Something inside me wanted me to get my hands dirty as soon as possible. To do rather than to read. I have always performed poorly in theory but have done good in lab. Funnily that was the case even with Physics in final year BSc. Scoring highest in Physics lab assessment carried out by external examiner but scoring miserably in theoretical exams. What would this mean? Does it indicate anything about my grasp of the subject? Who are we fooling by accepting scorecards as the true representative of ones ability? I scored more marks in my MSc than BSc even though I personally know that I learnt more in BSc than in MSc. Funny but true stuff.
These are some of the thoughts why I do not feel inclined to pursue further studies. Somewhere it starts rebelling deep inside.
The person asked me about my educational qualifications, probed about marks and finally if I have any achievements in education to share. In between he said something like - "The person whom you shall be working with has done it from M-IT institute and as you can understand he is quite keen to have someone who is from the local I-IT institute of India. But he is also okay if the person has some work experience in research.". Don't know but I got disconnected with the process after hearing the above lines from the proxy. He tried to ask me about my research work etc but by then I had lost interest in continuing the talk. Nope, haven't have talked with that head but now I don't want to be talking to him even if asked.
The boy may be literate from X-IT but he surely ain't educated. To me, he seems to have a stereotyped brain which can possibly produce only repetitive research but will have difficulty producing new ideas.
When kid we had these chapters, short biographies of world scientists. Many of those biographies had something common. These scientists were underachiever in scoring, in education. But each one of them had enough curiosity potion that drove them around exploring and experimenting. When I was in tenth standard my teacher told me that I should join IIT even though I was not the top scorer in the class. But for some reasons I didn't want to. Something inside me wanted me to get my hands dirty as soon as possible. To do rather than to read. I have always performed poorly in theory but have done good in lab. Funnily that was the case even with Physics in final year BSc. Scoring highest in Physics lab assessment carried out by external examiner but scoring miserably in theoretical exams. What would this mean? Does it indicate anything about my grasp of the subject? Who are we fooling by accepting scorecards as the true representative of ones ability? I scored more marks in my MSc than BSc even though I personally know that I learnt more in BSc than in MSc. Funny but true stuff.
These are some of the thoughts why I do not feel inclined to pursue further studies. Somewhere it starts rebelling deep inside.