Dear All,
This has been an intersting thread.
I think for a learner [deliberate shift from teaching to learning] the
following three are the "Must Have Attitudes".
"I like my subject"
"I am proud to be a part of my Institution" and
"I am very confident of completing the assignment"
T o my mind attitude is a preparedness to respond in a certain way to a
person, object, idea or situation.
Whenever a human interaction is involved the quality of the same depends
upon the 'soft' aspect of the human mind which may be called 'attitude'.
Just like any other aspect of engineering, 'human engineering' or
'attitude engineering' should also be understood to produce desirable
actions within a framework or a context.
In many cases, we somehow think there is some "Globality about Attitude".
IMHO, there is a fallacy in our view. Attitudes change based on the
contexts and frameworks of learning.
The title of a book by Norbert Wiener reads "The Human Use of Human
Beings". Norbert Wiener is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of
"Cybernetics"
IMHO, Education in general is an experiment on Human beings without proper
clearances from any Medical Boards !! This may be good or bad but the
point I wish to make is starting with number of subjects per semester
everything about education usually leads to an inconclusive debate.
Students....
Your thougths....
Sincerely,
Gopal T V
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Dr. T V Gopal
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Anna University
Chennai - 600 025, INDIA
Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 ; 22203340
(Res) 24454753
Home Page : http://www.annauniv
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> hi all
>
> It was a very interesting and thought provoking debate on this subject. I
> thank all senior and students for their views. As a person, who is closely
> involved with different generation of people both online and offline, I
> would like to share some of my observations:
>
> No doubt, there is a great attitudinal change amongst our youth when you
> look at from the age group of 40 and above. How it has happened? Who is
> responsible for this? Dr Abdul Kalam in many of the meetings, used to say
> that character building is done by (1) father (2) mother and (3) teacher,
> and more specifically primary school teacher. We should also introspect,
> to
> what extent, parents and teachers contribute to the shaping up our young
> kids. Let me explain in detail more:
>
> Presently, we have three generation of people living in India broadly.
> This
> is applicable mostly to middle class families.
>
> *First Generation - Age 55 and above*
>
> Educated around Indian Independence time. India was economically bad.
> Affected greatly by World wars. Not much of educational opportunities.
> May be these people are the first generation of educated people in
> their families. There were joint family systems. Mostly, the parents of
> these people were following ethics and moral values. The teachers who
> taught them were passionate teachers and they were thinking only about
> their
> students 24 hours. Political leaders were more committed, because they
> came
> just then from freedom movement. Corruption in Govt. offices were almost
> minimum or negligible. The persons who are now 55 plus were brought up in
> such atmosphere. Still u will see them comparatively more passionate
> about
> anything. Since they were brought up in poor background, they understand
> the value of money. Joint family systems were more accepted. When they
> were children, they were brought up by their grand parents, who respected
> values and ethics.
>
> This generation of people brought up their children braving all the
> financial challenges. They wanted their children to be more educated.
>
> Only because of great visionaries in this age group, who either planned or
> executed, India could show more progress. (Eg. Narasimha Rao, Dr Manmohan
> Singh, Dr Abdul Kalam, Mr Narayanamoorthy, N Vittal, Seshan, T S
> Krishnamoorthy, and many post independent leaders and officials). They
> are
> the architects of 'Modern India'.
>
> You will find the passion of Mr Narendra, Dr Narasimha Reddi and Mr
> Surkund,
> (senior members of our group) still passionate about the profession even
> at
> their age (70 plus).
>
> *Second generation - Age 35 to 55 *
>
> This generation of people got their education after middle of 70s. By
> that
> time, the values started getting eroded. They were brought up by their
> parents carefully, without exposing them to any financial burden. new
> generation of political leaders also started coming in, who were not part
> of
> freedom struggle. some of the states saw changes in the governments.
> Corruption in system slowly started growing. Mostly, this group is the
> second generation of educated people in their families. Lot of
> opportunities for higher education came up. They were brilliant than
> their
> earlier generation. They started occupying higher positions.
>
> Joint family system started getting reduced. Economic independence for
> individual families were the primary concern. Selfishness started.
> Mostly this generation did not suffer economically. Unlike the earlier
> generation, children born for this generation did not get much
> opportunity
> to mingle or live with their grand parents. More opportunities and more
> movement. The so called 'impatience' started setting in.
>
> *Third generation - Age group less than 35*
> *
> *
> This generation is technology driven generation. Super brilliant. When
> India was opened up in 1991, we got exposed to global scene. Lot of
> cultural invasion took place. From the value based passionate education
> system, we started moving towards business model of education. The State
> Governments which were running 'high quality educational institutions'
> earlier, started handing over the educational institutions to private
> sector. Toddy, arrack and liquors which were sold by private sector,
> moved
> to Govt. Sector. Now, many Governments started selling liquors than
> concentrating on good educational institutions. Political, commercial,
> business value systems got eroded. Corruption became open.
>
> Even in the recent survey conducted by us for our ezine, youngsters did
> not
> consider 'ethics' as an important aspect in journalism. This is a
> reflection of the society. Even the second generation parents started
> forcing their kids to compete. All the new generation educational
> institutions started producing 'successful business man', rather than
> 'good
> human beings'.
>
> Today, our youngsters of less than 35 face huge challenges from different
> directions. Plenty of opportunities available are nowadays used only for
> making 'money', than making good 'human values'. In the run for making
> money, our youth spoil their health also. Because they are not exposed to
> downside (reality) of life by their parents, they are not able to accept
> failures. They get emotional and discouraged, when they meet with failure.
> They are 'impatient' to the extent that they want 'bus' to fly like a
> 'jet'
> which is unrealistic and dangerous.
>
> Any talk about values, ethics, good food, etc. will be considered as 'out
> dated' and 'not in tune with changing times'.
>
> This is the reality of the large section of middle class, who form the
> 'intellectual backbone' of this country. I personally do not blame the
> young children. As elders we are also responsible for this sad state of
> affairs.
>
> *An appeal to youth: * Rightly or wrongly, the system has pushed to such a
> situation. the present day youngsters should understand the reality and
> try
> to bring the system back to normalcy. I feel their enormous potentiality
> is
> getting wasted on frivolous things. They should not consider 'bubbles' as
> reality.
>
> The earlier generation people may not be tech savvy or jargon oriented.
> Only because of their systematic approach, they have brought development
> and created strong fundamentals to India and you are all enjoying the
> fruits of development. Only you are going to take the country forward.
>
> Communicators and value based educational institutions have greater role
> to
> play.
>
> Srinivasan
> Prime Point
> 91766 50273
>
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