Thursday, March 13, 2008

IIT but not IITians future

Over the past four years in one of India's top technical institute there's been a development of a different kind. Ostensibly the desired technical skills sets are nurtured but not up to a determining or satisfactory level.The achievements if analyzed properly will turn out to be non-compliant with the standards desired. The conventional and outdated teaching methodologies, lecture-tutorial lack of coordination, material cramming based examinations, planned but uncared scheduling, poor infrastructure and facilities management have conflated to make a mockery of the process ie the imparting of technical education. The reason I say only technical is that apart from gaining the basics of their respective departmental courses students learn all the arts to dwell well in this clogged environment. Keeping up with the project deadlines and submissions through mobilization of all possible resources except individual's originality and thereafter ensuring both quality and quantity of the developed entity is quite an achievement The process also mostly ensures that IITians evolve to achieve individual laurels.
The days are probably gone when the achievers were sincere conventional sloggers paving way through voluminous bookish data in not-so-well lit areas. It's time for smart and fast raffish boys who find their own ways to beat the system. If the measure is individual's performance there would probably be no complaints but if the overall picture of the development in technical expertise of nation's youth is looked at it is quite sad and dismal.
Being through all this I think somehow the prestiguous academic gurus here at IIT will have to shoulder responsibility and show some selflessness and maturity.They should try to get of their conventionalities, refresh their attitude and move towards youthful thinking, devise innovative stratergies and impregnate interesting methodologies in their teaching if at all IIT's have to maintain their lead in technical domain or else rustiness will begin to reflect in the performance and prestige of the institution.

1 comment:

Rohit Mahajan said...

So True. And their lack of interest in maintaining the "best technical place to be in" tag is pretty evident by the fact that students are eventually preferring i-banks over domestic R&D. This IIT is not the IIT that was intended to be.

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