<p>Honestly, I still do not know what I’d like to be when I grow up. I want study Biology and Psychology in college and see where it gets me.
Comparing the education systems of the US and India, I think the US is better. When I did elementary school in US, I loved it. I can still remember singing preamble song and the fun projects we did during science class- we used a cup filled with candy to study the layers of the earth and learned the phases of the moon using oreo cookies.
And then I came to India. (Northern, btw) I had expected to meet smart people who loved to learn as well. What I found was a room full of kids who memorized their textbooks and regurgitated all the information on tests. Barely anyone read for pleasure, and no one cared about the subject they were learning enough to try to go beyond what was written in the book. No one. I go to one of the best schools in the NCR region, and my teacher’s idea of ‘teaching’ is picking up Pradeep’s chemistry textbook and dictating it. I do respect my teachers because they’re truly good people but the education is mind numbing.
So maybe Americans think India is a continent and if you ask them about it they go, “Do you mean that place with slumdog millionaire?”. The US education system may make duds but it also makes highly intellectual, cosmopolitan individuals who truly contribute to the world. I’m sure they’re doing something right.</p>
<p>fostkey1996, rote memorization is not as bad as you think. </p>
<p>FWIW, here is an interesting article/discussion on the subject:</p>
<p>[Rote Memorization: Overrated or Underrated?](<a href=“Rote Memorization: Overrated or Underrated? | HuffPost Latest News”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost)</p>
<p>I really liked the article…I had never thought of rote memorization that way! However, I still don’t think the education system encourages us to go beyond our syllabus. Perhaps, this is a problem that is faced by students all around the world. Standardized testing isn’t as important in elementary, maybe that’s why I would enjoy going to school so much. My little brother finished elementary school in India and he hates it. So I dont know.</p>
<p>I have always been astonished by apple and its amazing innovations even since apple had not become so popular. Steve Jobs was my idol. my foremost dream would be to become a software engineer for the Mac OSX development team at apple.</p>
<p>A chemist. Synthesize drugs, do drugs.</p>
<p>thats very interesting loveofdevotchka ;)</p>
<p>“I wanna be a billionaire, so fkin bad” ;D #Wayne #Stark</p>
<p>^That’s something we have in common! 
Buy all of the things i never had.</p>