On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Suraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Girish Venkatachalam > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Do not approach learning as an activity that is reactionary or only > > for solving a problem at hand. > > > > Beg to disagree. By having a practical goal, one can learn how to do > things practically. Then get inspired by how it worked and dig deeper. > But if you've got a hundred interesting, practical problems to solve - > then keep doing it. Achieving rewards our brain (dopamine circuitry > and such) in ways to reinforce learning way better than 'organized' > learning attempts. Thus, classrooms (and syllabuses and standardized > tests) are ineffective ways of learning (and here I agree completely > with you). > > > > Only open ended learning outside of the syllabus will help you. > > > > Life does not have a syllabus. Exams and grades do not help you after > > your first job. > > > Actually, nowadays, not even for the first job... and I HOPE the trend > continues and forces the system of education as it is practiced today > to become utterly useless and obsolete. Flipkart is probably going IPO > soon, this may be an interesting change to a long recurring trend > (where the only kind of IPOs that happened in India in the IT sector > were "services" companies which mostly sold indian labour, much like > what happened in the 19th century). The many emerging indian startups > are thinking radically different - for once, as I may have mentioned > here earlier, they are open to hiring anyone with any background, > irrespective of their academic performance, provided they can DO WORK > (read: solve problems, writes good code, understands fundamentals well > and can learn). Afterall, what's more to keeping pace with the world > of computers than constant self-learning? > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > On the contrary, I agree with Girish 100%. I have seen people who learn for pleasure and not forced upon bya a goal seems to have true knowledge (but not money :( ) -- Nothing is constant Regards A.K.Karthikeyan http://is.gd/kblogs _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
