Now, HRD plans finishing school for engineers (Click the title for a link to the article)

I totally agree with the facts in the article saying most of India's engineering graduates are unemployable. It very unfortunate but I feel this is true coz of the following reasons:

* The young engineers aren't in touch with the realities of the world they live in.
* They are socially absent, culturally disconnected, and emotionally departed from the society.
* ALMOST NONE of our engineers in schools are made aware of the social consequences of their skills of trade like the socio economic and or the ecological effects of their work.
* These engineers only aspire for good grades but not holistic education.
* That's why we have the world's most competitive engineering schools which unfortunately SUCK at research that comes out of them. What is a university where there is no research? It is nothing but a brick and mortar housing where mugged up and or documented knowledge is being just fed into the best quality human brains with the 'highest grey matter absorbability' that are singled out after an intensive country wide search (IIT)
* Seriously, being modest about my mediocre education, I still consider myself a better equipped citizen than a dumb engineering geek who knows nothing but his drawing board or code.
* IIT's are ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT, of course they have the sharpest brains when a couple of thousand people are singled out of a million people, to me that's natural selection, and not necessarily the best selection for the purpose of achieving the pinnacles of research and education.
* I could be a mediocre student and still be able to get through to a Harvard or an Oxford, but in India if I didn't get the damn 99.99 percentile I am DAMNED.



We as a nation will never actually be educated unless we realize that education is different from being well literate. No wonder the west prefers Indian specialists, WHY? Let me tell you why:

* Most Indians in the west tend to become brain dead morons and work for their bosses, they, irrespective of their intelligence and or intellect just god damn follow their bosses orders and SLOG IT OUT to get the results.
* These people don't participate in the local society; all they care about is their weekend dinner party at a friend's or the temple gathering on a Sunday or an Indian movie screening.
* They almost never give back to the society that is actually helping them realize their hidden potential.
* All they have is to complain about the westernization BS.