<p>I want to always dream of a better future, remain young at heart and enjoy the present.</p>
<p>Would take that as a compliment. Oh! It was one.
Waise i once, when i was 8, googled about open positions at the starship enterprise. Was a kid. :D</p>
<p>Haha…lol codeguy:)</p>
<p>^^Nice to see another Trekkie here. :)</p>
<p>I want to become like Q for a day and mess with the earthlings, especially the “religious” kind.</p>
<p>Q was funny and It was funnier how he considered humans as ‘Lesser beings’. Kinda like sheldon cooper. :D</p>
<p>Quiver, Was a kid then. :P</p>
<p>So quiver, you’re from national public school. Am i right? 
And chubbycheeks, you’re from Uchic?</p>
<p>When I grow up(I have grown already, but I’m taking you mean 10 years down the line…)… I WANT TO…</p>
<p>Sleep.
In a cabin.
In the Alps. </p>
<p>Anyone wish to join me? :D</p>
<p>^ ^ yep.</p>
<p>why alps???</p>
<p>Chubby Cheeks-The American education system is not perfect but compared to India it is nearly perfect. BTW stating the American system is flawed because graduates like to go to Wall Street is illogical. It’s like saying the baseball is flawed because a kid threw it through a window?</p>
<p>LOL. So many people here with ulterior motives.</p>
<p>@sosomenza - Any of us here becoming a teacher/educator won’t change India’s education system in the least. The problems are more deep rooted than that and would take a considerable amount of time and dedication to be rectified.</p>
<p>Also, the problem doesn’t lie with the basic schooling system. It’s the higher education system that lacks a bit. All considered, India’s education system is quite good.</p>
<p>@quiver - Alps, mainly because of Napolean Bonaparte. 
The painting and the story related to it. And I read about it in a Hindi text book in standard 8 of all places!! Haha!! :D</p>
<p>sosmenza, what I said about the american system encouraging bright kids to head in the direction of wall street is not as illogical as you think but i’ll concede the point for now. </p>
<p>The point I want to make is that prescription to fix Indian education system is not the US model. K-12 system is in the US is pathetic at best. It is a disgrace for a country that calls itself the leader of the world. I bet an average high school student in India knows more about the world than an average college student in the US. lol, US secretary of state thinks there is a country called Kyzarkhstan! Forget what Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman said.</p>
<p>The Indian education system is still trying to recover from the systematic dismantling carried out by the British and Macaulay in particular. I don’t think what India needs is an army of US educated teachers to reform her education system.</p>
<p>Chubbycheeks, I strongly disagree.
While the difficulty/rigor of classes in america appears to be a lot lower, the guys who pass a course actually know something at the end of the day. As opposed to having memorized everything in the syllabus.
You seem to be extrapolating based on the people you know, classmates or friends. Consider the average indian high school, where none of the teachers know English , (i’m talking about english medium here), and most don’t know the subject they’re teaching beyond what they memorized. I go to a relatively good high school/junior college and a lot of the teachers still suck to the core.</p>
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<p>Really? What do they know? Immigrants are the reason why America is what it is today.</p>
<p>Isn’t it unfair to gauge one’s educatedness solely on his/her mastery of the English language and European way of thinking? Tragically, this is the belief system the British and Macaulay installed in India.</p>
<p>Again, I am not saying that present Indian education system is perfect. Far from it! But it is not as bad as many on this forum seem to portray and K-12 system in the US is not as holistic as they want to believe. </p>
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Ok, I’ll admit that my sampling is limited to a few schools in south India which include both rural and urban. Perhaps schools in northern Hindi speaking belt are very different. I am intimately familiar with the school system in the US. The bar they set here for high school graduation is very very low. </p>
<p>Peace. :D</p>
<p>Peace. Lets get back to what you want to be when you grow up.</p>
<p>This is one of those debates which will never come to an end! :D</p>
<p>I infact don’t want to grow up.</p>
<p>Anyone want to be a snake charmer??
India is the land of snake charmers right ;)…
I have actually wanted to be a truck driver once or twice…then one of them nearly killed me …and then I stopped:P</p>
<p>^ ROFL
One time I wanted to become a cop. In my mind all they did was to go to coffee shop and ate doughnuts. I loved doughnuts and still do … </p>
<p>Oh, by the way, Krispy Kreme doughnuts are the best.</p>
<p>^ No. DD. DEFINITELY.</p>