Muses of Murari

In his insightful article about virtual education, Robert X. Cringley wrote on these lines : …. It’s that whole “degree from MIT” thing that allows that school not to worry about sharing its lecture bounty, because in the education system lectures are viewed as worthless unless they lead to a degree. Why is that? My [...]

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America is nervous about its future generation. It thinks its future generation is not equipped enough like that of India’s and China’s in the area of education to face new dynamics of 21st century. This is some kind of irony. Here, in India, there is huge hue and cry about poor educational system and the [...]

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I haven’t read much this week due to work pressure. My google reader items piling up in hundreds every day! Here are couple of reads and videos : Blue ray failure? – Robert Cringley tries to reason out the lame take-off by Blue-ray. You want to understand how economies go boom, go bust and repeat [...]

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This week’s links : School Choice. This is one of the significant things I discovered this week. This is a system, where government or individuals directly pay, via school vouchers, for the poor children to study in the schools of their choice. I think this system makes more sense for a country like India. It [...]

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I had this idea for a long time, given the pathetic primary schooling and skewed higher education in India. We need to get the government out and give some independent body full power to bring in what is needed. This is exactly Mr. Kapil Sibal, new HRD minister, echoed in his interview to CNBC TV18 [...]

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In few of the blogs I follow, some of the “Weekend readings” posts (links to interesting articles, blog posts etc.,.), the bloggers share, are really good ones. I like to post links of interesting articles I read & heard. If I don’t had time to read or did not pass though any good write-ups, I [...]

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Where is Everyone ? – This article has brilliant images of how the communication transformed in the last 200 years. Interesting take on future, how the traditional media houses will die in the hands of new age online social networks. Warren Buffet takes charge – An interesting Chinese battery, mobile phone and electric car company [...]

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