07-08-2007, 02:20 PM
[quote iaJim]I'm reading "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, and it's interesting to see the people he's talking about so much. Thanks!
I spent time in Chennai (aka Madras), Jaipur, Pondicherry (Puducherry), Agra, and Delhi. Chennai was a bit scary to me personally because of how much they were pushing IT studies and technology education. It was the COMPLETE opposite of the U.S. If you graduate with ANY undergraduate degree they will hire you and train you for software/hardware IT support. There were schools for engineering, science, technology, etc everywhere. The education is biased the opposite direction. They encourage people to study science, math, physics, biotech,etc. In the U.S. people are scared and/or discouraged from studying these fields. The U.S. is in for a painful, expensive wakeup call very soon.
I spent time in Chennai (aka Madras), Jaipur, Pondicherry (Puducherry), Agra, and Delhi. Chennai was a bit scary to me personally because of how much they were pushing IT studies and technology education. It was the COMPLETE opposite of the U.S. If you graduate with ANY undergraduate degree they will hire you and train you for software/hardware IT support. There were schools for engineering, science, technology, etc everywhere. The education is biased the opposite direction. They encourage people to study science, math, physics, biotech,etc. In the U.S. people are scared and/or discouraged from studying these fields. The U.S. is in for a painful, expensive wakeup call very soon.