DASA NIT IMPORTANT NEWS!!!!!

peepingtom
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:49:38 +0000

@agg999,
I find myself unable to reason with you. Your reasoning is poor and your statements are pointless. I could scrutinize each of you posts and tell you exactly what’s wrong with them but it’s clearly apparent that you don’t believe in logic! So, with a little hope, I’m posting a statement by a professor at an American University (to be unnamed here) and you can know in his words what he thinks about the matter:

" The truth is that there are very few US students prepared for a career in science or engineering. The few who are (and they are very good) go to MIT, Caltech and Stanford leaving the tier IIs and tier IIIs burdened with those who might have done better to major in basket weaving instead of engineering. I have had undergraduates in my classes who never had a physics class or a math class beyond trigonometry in high school and yet decided to get a degree in electrical engineering. I have almost never had a domestic student in a graduate class. I have seen high school sophomores who cannot add 11 and 24 in their head and yet aspire for STEM careers (how did they pass elementary school?). Our labs will close without the Indians and the Chinese since our own stock who have been brought up on smiley faces and gold stars despite pathetic performances (lest their self esteem be damaged) cannot do anything. In one semester I had to fail 60% of my undergraduate class in solid state device engineering because I was honestly alarmed to turn them loose on the unsuspecting population with a certificate. Yes, we have some of the best universities in the world (see the QS rankings), but we also have some of the worst high schools in the world turning out illiterates masquerading as literate. Obviously many, if not most, of our own high school graduates are not in a position to populate our universities. Hence the Indians and the Chinese to the rescue. This is not by choice, but by compulsion. There is no foreign aid involved here, and if there is, the US may be the recipient in some sense. If this has to change, then our high schools need to put away the gold stars and start dishing out “F”-s where they are deserved. Maybe then they will have raised the bar to the point where students entering universities are actually prepared for the rigor."
You can find this statement published in the Scientific American magazine.

Now even if you disagree, I give up!