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Good luck Malvi Shah with your 7-yr-old son. My parents had no idea how to educate me (even though Dad is a chemist who might have won a Nobel prize with a slightly different life path), but my educational path was less tumultuous than many people who’ve written here.My parents were born in Taiwan in the 1930s-1940s, and came to the US in 1963 for graduate school. They were both from wealthy families, but decided to be “downwardly mobile” idealists - leaving their families without money. Dad declined to take over the family business, and thus his parents didn’t like him much. Basically, they were Chinese “hippies” rebelling against traditional attitudes, but very conservative compared to American/European hippies and beatniks.My parents were the opposite of “Asian Tiger” parents, and encouraged me to do whatever I wanted to be happy. Dad was familiar with both US and Chinese educational systems, and felt that the Chinese system builds a high level of basic skills, but stifles creativity as an adult thinker/researcher/scientist.Mom (1966)Me (1966)I was born in Indiana in 1966. Grew up speaking Taiwanese. Could read English before age 1 - not sure exactly when, my earliest memories include already being able to read.Funny story: I was fascinated with cars, and had fun naming cars as we drove around the US. But I was ashamed of cheating…if I couldn't recognize the car by shape, I would read the name. Little did I know, that people were more impressed by my reading…than naming the cars by shape. :-)When people are extremely intelligent, they often make very poor guesses about other people’s motivations…until they get a lot of real-world experience with the wide range of personality styles, emotional levels, ability levels, and life experiences in other people.When I was 4, my parents had me tested (possibly an IQ test) to enter kindergarten early. My birthday was in November, and Colorado required kids to be age 5 by September, but my parents didn't want me to wait a year. I was told that the tester refused to give my parents a score (which is proper procedure for Ratio scores with old Stanford-Binet tests - Ratios above 160 are considered “no score”).I thought it was strange, but didn’t think much of it until 2015 when I stumbled onto Quora (with many IQ-obsessed people). It’s possible my parents were told a score, and decided to tell me “no score.”Some people think all smart people have a fantastic memory. My memory is terrible. I have trouble remembering a 7-digit phone number or a 7-word sentence.I learned many mnemonic methods, but I’m too lazy to use them. For storage, I use notes on my smartphone, an Excel spreadsheet on my computer, and I e-mail myself.I have a relatively high iq, yet a terrible working memory. Why? And what can I do to fix this?Aphantasia - Some people see visual images of a page, and can read the words. I visualize nothing. Strong audio, but weak/no touch or smell imagery either. I build 3D mental models, but more from a sense of touch.- When the Mind's Eye Is Blind (Scientific American, 2018)- Aphantasia: How It Feels To Be Blind In Your Mind (2016 FB viral post)- Aphantasia - Wikipedia Since I have audio memory, one of my mnemonic tricks to remember numbers is to repeat some of the digits out loud so I can recall the audio sounds while I remember some of the other digits. The lack of internal image memory makes “memory palace” techniques less strong, but since I can 3D model in my head, it does work.Unlike some people who compulsively learn, I like to have a mind which can be calm and empty, or active and full of wonder. My favorite thoughts are awe, wonder, curiosity, love, compassion, joy, and gratitude. I’m not so fond of problem-solving, planning, worry, anxiety, and anger.———————————————-Starting School (1971–75, age 4–8)———————————————-So I started kindergarten in 1971. Since my Dad was a post-doc trying to get enough publications for a professorship & tenure, we moved twice, and I attended three kindergartens in Ithaca, NY (Cornell), Boulder, CO (U Colorado), and Rochester, NY (U Rochester).I remember the frustration in Jan 1972 of often writing the wrong year (1971) on my school papers.I had no sense of being unusually smart. The internet had started in 1969, but I wouldn’t use it for another 11 years (1980), so I had no reference points. In 1971, I learned to play football in the snow in Colorado, and was mostly frustrated that the other boys wouldn’t let me be quarterback.When I got older, my parents shared that they had no idea how to raise me.For chores, I was assigned to read a regular encyclopedia and a medical encyclopedia front-to-back. When I finished those, they bought a 25+ volume Encyclopedia Britannica (which I don’t think I ever finished).I grew up on college campuses, sometimes accompanying my dad while he programmed some computers to analyze chemical compounds and anti-cancer drugs. He sat me at punch card machines, and I would type my name, address, and other things on punch cards while he worked.School wasn’t challenging, and I was bored by some of it, but I didn’t know any better. Sometimes I would just read a book while the teacher was speaking. This upset one teacher who liked to quiz kids who weren’t paying attention, make them look bad, and give them an “F” for the day. But one day when he signaled me out to ask me questions, I answered them correctly, so he gave me an “F+”. Other times, I would doodle and draw. Or I would do my homework in class, so I didn’t have to do it after school.In kindergarten and 1st grade, I was often assigned to help/tutor other kids.I was reading at 4th grade level, but the 2nd grade teacher didn’t want me to read above grade, so I made no progress that year in English.Unlike some “autodidacts” here, I could learn things at a slow speed, or at a fast speed. It didn’t bother me to learn at the “school speed”. I could function socially in the academic world.Since my parents were not great with English (There’s no one for 2 generations - grandparents, cousins, etc… with good language skills, it’s not in my genes), I didn’t have much exposure to English/American literature.Dad did have Scientific American, Physics Today, and Popular Science on the living room table, so I read those every month. And Reader’s Digest (not quite literature…) and Consumer Reports.When teachers didn’t have more assignments for me, sometimes they would give me a box of math questions on index cards (100,000s of questions). Grunt work.I often went to the library, checked out a stack of 15–25 books, rinse, and repeat (a typical non-textbook takes me about 1–2 hrs at a leisurely pace, 15 sec - 2 min if skimming quickly).——————————————————————————Attending 4th grade & middle school (1975–76, age 8–9)——————————————————————————In 4th grade (1975–76), my teacher and parents arranged for me to go to the middle school for math (pre-algebra) after New Years. I was excited and nervous. Wanted to do well, so I learned the whole math book over Xmas break.Oops. Didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to do that. So the middle school math teacher (Mr. Tumminelli) ended up teaching me Algebra I, II, Trigonometry, etc…Every day I had a tiny school bus driving me back & forth between grade school & middle school. Not sure how my parents arranged this. They were amazing.———————————————————————————————————-Attending 5th grade, 6th grade, and Kent State University (1976–77, age 9-10)———————————————————————————————————-We moved from Rochester, NY to Kent, OH (Kent State University). I remember my dad being very angry at the time, but I didn’t realize for another decade that Dad’s professor was using him for cheap labor, and refusing to write letters of recommendation. So without recommendation letters, he was able to get a job as an assistant professor, but at a small non-Ivy League schoolKent State University didn’t yet have an Early Admit Program…and Center for Talented Youth (CTY, Johns Hopkins) didn’t begin until 1979. …but somehow my Dad was able to introduce me to professors at Kent State to take some math classes (1976–1983), unofficially at first, then officially after 1–2 years when the Early Admit program was created.The math professors said the number of student complaints about “Calculus is too hard” dropped dramatically when a 10-yr-old began taking classes with them. :-)So in 1976–77, I was enrolled in 5th grade, 6th grade, and university. A bus would take me to the college for half the day, or I might take night-classes.Started programming an old 1960s IBM with FORTRAN on punchcards.When a program wouldn’t work for an unknown reason, we often opened up the computer to look for insects (real-life “bugs”).—————————————————————————————————-Attending 7th-11th grade, and Kent State University (1977–82, age 11–15)———————————————————————————-——————Next year, I did 7th grade and college. I studied math, computer science, chemistry, physics, and violin at college. Wasn’t so good at English, so took that, history, government, biology, PE (Physical education), etc… at junior high and high school.Rehearsal for debut violin recital (Mozart Concerto #3) at age 12 (1978) with the Kent State Sinfonia.Dad got a TI-58 in 1978 (programmable calculator for $200–300, $800–1,200 in 2019 dollars). Programming at home without punch cards!- TI-59 / TI-58 - WikipediaBetween 6th grade and 11th grade, I didn’t skip any grades. My parents were not fond of accelerating me too quickly. I mostly missed my friends from K-4, as I never again had a big group of friends from 5th–11th grade in Kent.In 7th and 8th grade, I was greatly puzzled by puberty in boys. Many of the boys began to do really stupid and hurtful things (Tell Polish jokes and make fun of other people).I got interested in girls at age 12, so the first two years of attending college were before my sex drive started. I was a shy introvert, not athletic (5′7″, 115 lbs), with no fashion sense - your basic nerd. So no success there for another 7 years.I wondered how other people like me navigated life, but didn’t find much in those pre-web-browser days (pre-1991). What helped me most were two things:(1) Terman studies (1921-)Genetic Studies of Genius - Wikipedia (2) Leta Hollingsworth’s “Children Above 180 IQ” (1975)Amazon.com: Children Above 180 IQ Standford-Binet Origin and Development (Classics in Child Development) (9780405064678): Leta Stetter Hollingworth: Books—————————————-Working during high school—————————————-My first consulting project in 1979 (or 1980) was when the high school teachers were negotiating salary scales (e.g. BA + 5 years experience = $X, MA + 10 yrs = $Y). They wanted to compare multiple salary scales for overall benefit to all teachers, and no one knew about business spreadsheets on mainframes (1961) or VisiCalc (first microcomputer spreadsheet, 1979), so I hard-coded a spreadsheet.I worked for my Dad on various FORTRAN programs in Chemistry, including a crazy program for factor analysis. For a few days, I couldn’t figure out what this program was doing. Finally I realized that the author was using variables shoehorned inside format statements to achieve variable-length fields and different numbers of fields (e.g. “X = 2.3 Y + 4.56 Z” or “X = 2.8 Y”). Fortran 4 used fixed-format output, and the method was quite ingenious and TOTALLY unreadable. One of the coolest programs I’ve had the pleasure of working with.Later I worked for another Chemistry professor doing 3-D visualization of chemical compounds. An Apple ][ was used to interface to a mainframe doing most of the calculations. This was 4 years before GUI interfaces migrated from Xerox Parc (1973) to the Apple Lisa and Macintosh (1984).———————————————-Meeting kids from other schools———————————————-Did some AIME/AMC exams in 9th-11th grade. Best was 2nd in Ohio. But never studied, and didn’t realize that they were important, so never got to meet any IMO people from around the world. Art of Problem SolvingTheodore Roosevelt High School (Ohio) was so backwater, about half the kids didn’t do any college. We had classes in cosmetology (cutting hair), wood shop, auto shop, stenography (typing), OWE (Occupational Work Exchange)…and maybe one student per year went to a lower-level Ivy League.Almost no one took SATs (which required a 10 mile trip to neighboring Akron, OH). ACTs were the usual exam. Didn’t realize that ACH (SAT IIs) subject tests even existed until after visiting Harvard. I think we had four AP classes in our high school (English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, maybe history). I don’t think I took any of the AP classes.In 10th & 11th grade, I started doing science fairs and symposiums. Won state science science symposium, but was pressured to decline the award for drinking underage. Guy who took my place won the International Symposium in England. Whoops. Might have messed up my chance to get into Harvard. Butt got saved a 6–9 months later though.Entered the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and won 6th place ($7,500 - Harvard tuition was only $6,000 at the time, so more than 1 year of tuition). For the first time, I met kids from the Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant, and other magnet/private schools.For the first time in my life I met someone smarter…MUCH smarter. When some of the 40 finalists were hanging out, the topic of “who’s the smartest one here” came up. No discussion. Unanimous. One guy was clearly WAAAY above the rest of us.Because of Westinghouse, I got invited to an American Academy of Achievement dinner, where I met Jay Luo (graduated college at age 12, Prodigy views his homeland - Taiwan Today), Steve Jobs, John Glenn (1st man on the moon), Brooke Shields, George H. W. Bush (the first one), etc…Years later, I spoke with Michael Kearney (graduated college at age 10, has the current record) via phone, but we didn’t hit it off.Decided to start college as a freshman (even though I had enough math for a BA), and applied to Harvard, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford at age 15 (1981). Got into three, but was rejected at MIT (Heard later that MIT might have had a minimum age of 16 in the 1980s).Visited Harvard and Princeton. Didn’t visit Stanford (which may have been a mistake, it has great flat areas for rollerblading, and lots of volleyball nets), so chose Harvard to be safe, since I liked the people there.————————————————-Life at Harvard (1982–86, age 15–19)————————————————-At Harvard, I finally realized that my level of intelligence was quite rare.Students were introducing me to their parents as “yada yada yada…”I skipped the undergraduate math curriculum (…and vaguely wish I had audited or taken Math 55ab), and started with Complex Analysis (Math 213ab), before abandoning higher math.Played in the orchestra for two years, and got to tour Europe and the USSR (before the wall fell). But practicing/playing for 8–12 hrs/day for 1–2 months convinced me that I didn’t like music enough to do it professionally. So I stopped playing violin in 1984 after sophomore year.Dad introduced me to a Nobel laureate in Chemistry (Prof. William Lipscomb, who recently died at age 91), and I ended up doing some X-ray crystallography in his lab. Later worked in a virology lab at the Harvard Medical School for Prof. Donald M. Coen. Started a Yahoo!-like system for Harvard, but in the pre-browser (pre-1991) era, it was a flop.Dad didn’t have money, or understand the US elite college admissions system (In high school, I had few extra-curriculars, no leadership activities, did no volunteer work - unlike my younger brother and sister), but he did have connections! He also suggested submitting a project for the Westinghouse STS, which probably made me a lock for Harvard (In the 1980s, I think they accepted all 40 Finalists who applied).Had a lot of fun taking challenging classes, but it totally submarined my ability to get into a top graduate school. I chose classes based on the professors’ teaching ratings - Government, History, Literature, Linguistics, Science, whatever… Eventually I had to get special clearance to graduate because I hadn’t taken enough classes in my major (Chemistry and Physics).Did a 1.5x load (6 classes) officially & audited others.Sometimes I skipped 1–2 levels of prerequesites to take classes, which wasn’t great for my grades. I wasn’t bright enough to skip prerequisites and still get an A+.If I were to do it over, I might have(1) Finished a BA & PhD ASAP, while impressing key professors(2) Used connections & research to get a tenured professor position(3) …then explored other classes and topicsBut I didn’t know any better … and was just excited to have challenging classes.Clueless youth.I was two years behind Lisa Randall (physicist) who won Westinghouse STS in 1980. See Can a person be both extremely beautiful and highly intelligent?Masako, Crown Princess of Japan (will be Empress on 5/1/19) was one year before me. As was Conan O'Brien (comedian, talk-show host).———————-Spiritual Crisis———————-In senior year (1985–86), I had my first relationship (I was 18, and she was a 19-yr-old 1st year), and it created a crisis of values.My parents were not religious and had a philosophy of “Be first, and you’ll always have a job” (Along with “Do whatever you want, just be happy.”).But I had always felt this was unfair to everyone else in the world, as not everyone can be first. How can we have a world which everyone can have a fulfilling life?This resulted in a suicidal manic-depression which lasted 12 years (1986–1998).In retrospect, I was dealing with 3 things:(1) Realignment of values. Discovering God.(2) Poor emotional skills. Inability to cope with the “dark night” and dark emotional places, and come back to happiness, wonder, awe, curiosity, love, compassion, and joy.(3) Inexperience with relationships. Coming out of “initial euphoria” and not knowing what to do.So it took me ten years to get a bachelor’s degree (1976–86, age 19).————————————After College (1986–2019)————————————Retired at age 40 (2007)…Spent 16 years traveling around the world (2002–2018).I’m 52 now. Not sure what’s coming next.Long-lived ancestors. Grandma lived to 103. Mom (79) & Dad (82) are still in good health.Funny thing is my mom never expected to live to age 50. She grew up in Taiwan during WW II, and people died a lot back then from disease.At a springboard diving meet at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in the 1990s, a 94-yr-old lady (Viola Krahn) was diving. 1922 NCAA champion. The 70-something men & women could still do 2.5 somersaults.Viola Cady Krahn, 102; Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame MemberMet a guy trying to set the record for oldest man to run a marathon. Except there was a guy 5 years older who was still running. :-)

Stunning reply of Engineering Faculty: What I am doing (Any methodology adapting for Teaching and learning environment) it doesn't have any relation with employ-ability of student. My wish was to work with industry, but I am unable to get any other job, so I have joined teaching profession.Yesterday, I attended lecture of senior most professor (more than 22 Yrs of experience) from Tier 3 engineering college. Recently Placements were lowered in that college. It is my habit to listen carefully (If anyone talking about any important topic about education). Guest faculty has delivered excellent lecture and presented methodology to so and so. The audience were engineering faculty... After the lecture, I asked one question, Sir if we follow all these methods and we will monitor it strictly. Will it helps to increases employ-ability of students?? Will it help them to get job??Faculty replay: What I am doing it doesn't have any relation with employability of students. My wish was to work with industry, but I am unable to get the job so, I am here to teach the engineering students.I was external examiner for second year students (Tier 3 College where external admissions allowed.. just you have to pay the fees rest is the responsibility of college).Me: Tell me what is unit of velocity? ? Students: Long Silence !!!Once a bright students from Tier 3 entered in my cabin. I know him from childhood, He normally top ranker in exam in college as well as in university and overall very good in extracurricular activities. Unfortunatelyhe unable to clear JEE due to illness then he enrolled in Tier 3 college. Even being bright student he struggled very badly to get job for the sake of bread and butter. I inquired him about future plans. He suddenly replied I don't have any faith or trust in engineering anymore.Recently I was going through the book by Shail Kumar. “Building Golden India: How to unleash India’s vast potential and transform its higher education system. Excellent book on higher education in India. After that I have decided to write this answer. I have 4–5 Year experience in teaching tier 3 engineering colleges also visited many private engineering colleges for oral and practical exams. Apart from this, I visited most of older IIT and NIT for attending various STTP and research work. I have very good interaction with few Professor currently working in top foreign university. I am actively involving in consultancy services to startup and Working on my own startup. Again, I have counselled and helped 20000+ Students for selecting engineering college and branch.Education scenario in Top foreign UniversityExcellence in higher education institutions is created and sustained by outstanding faculty members and university leaders who deeply care about their field, research, making an impact and student learning outcomes."It is prestigious and honor to be faculty member [at UC Berkely]""Composition and quality of the faculty is the single most important determinant of the character and prestige of the university"“All of these schools [two-thirds of the best US universities] correctly assume that the quality of the faculty is the most important factor in maintaining their reputation and position,” wrote Henry Rosovsky"Prepare, attract, and retain the best and brightest minds as faculty members".Most of Foreign University believes in Terman model of faculty recruitment (Terman is “academic architect of silicon valley”, “Father of Silicon Valley” Terman was former provost and faculty member at Stanford University).Terman Faculty recruitment Model (He termed faculty recruitment is most critical).Appointment of lower rank faculty must be guarded just as carefully as higher position. Institute must more attractive for dedicated, exceptional and deserving faculty member, Terman helped faculties to increase in salary, raised fund for fellowship, endowment and research Facilities· Building steeples of excellence in targeted areas by recruiting outstanding faculty members.· Having close link to industry and government· Promoting the talent of faculty members and students· Providing the best research and teaching facilities· Actively involving alumni and benefactors· Having large numbers of outstanding students· Enabling entrepreneurial corporate, and academicsCompany founded by Stanford Faculty/Students/AlumniGoogle: Sergey Brin & Larry Page, Whatsapp: Brian Acton, Tesla Motors, Hewlett-Packard, LinkedIn, Nike, eBay, NVIDIA, Snapchat: Evan Spiegel & Bobby Murphy, Instagram: Mike Krieger & Kevin Systrom, Kiva, Yahoo, Thernos, Trader Joes, VM ware, Zillow, Intuit, IDEO, Odwalla, Sun Microsystems, Dolby Labs, Clinkle: Lucas Duplan Electronics Arts, GAP, Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab and Company, Varian etcStanford entrepreneurs (faculty and alumni) have started 39,900 companies, which in turn have created 5.4 million jobs and generated the US $2.7 trillion in annual revenues.In Indian Education Scenario in most Colleges.Great nations, states, and cities are powered by a world-class higher education system. The United States has 135 universities in the Top 500 of global rankings, China has 45, South Korea: 12, California: 12, Silicon Valley: 3 and Singapore: 2. in the same rankings India has just one university in the Top 500 (Refer ARWU ranking). India won’t have single university like Stanford University. There is acute shortage of qualified faculty members and academics who can lead higher education institutionsGautam Thapar, Founder and Chairman of the Avantha Group deeply Knowledgeable about higher education and its impact of students, the school system, and industry. He is also the president of Thapar University and is on the board of Governors of Doon School. He shared experience. “Recently he was on the search committee to select a director of a prominent higher education institute. They wanted an academic who had also published extensively. They reviewed over one hundred applications and found only two had any meaningful research paper and citations to there credit. Many of the applicant had lebeled their conferences talk as published papers, Thapar was disappointed by the tiny pool of qualified candidate but not surprised He mentioned “Teaching has lost its attraction- now the bottom 3 to 4% Join faculty. People are [also] coming out of the system that is missing an ingredient [Research] so we cannot expect something when they reach the top”Most of engineering graduate passing from university affiliated colleges. The affiliating colleges confer degrees on behalf of university. By mandate, the affiliated colleges do not conduct research. Thus, most of the students in India get first degree in institutions that conduct no research. This has created two serious issues:" 1: With no research the curriculum become stagnant and is not benefiting from the innovation that research enables.2: With no research expectations, many of the college faculty members are holders of only bachelor's degreeAmong faculties "[There is] a strangely divided notion that teaching and research are different" Even though some faculties are involved in research for sake of post and promotion, students are not getting any benefit from it interestingly research becomes personal work.If any institutions conduct research, a segment of faculty believes that they could either each or conduct research but not both"Some faculties believes "I teach or not, it does not matter"“The higher education system at the state level has become deeply politicized, the governance structure is in shambles; academics is the lowest priority; and domicile, caste, state and political affiliations play a significant role in appointments of faculty members"Mechanism to identify fake PhD faculty and genuine PhD holder is completely missing in private engineering colleges you can easily 90% PhD holder won't have quality research or publication. Interestingly Fake academician holding the decision making post." Faculties are pursuing PhD by publishing research work in fake/paid journal for the sake of post, promotion and salary even if some faculty are carrying good research but unaware about where to publish the work. Most of them have acquired promotion and holding decision making position such as Director, Deans, Head. Similarly New/lower faculty member following the senior faculty member for the sake of salary and promotion" (Recently world most reputed journal Nature published article on Fake PhD thesis and research paper. India is number one in the world in terms of fake PhD report)Now a days Center Government institution (IIT/NIT) revised recruitment and promotion schemes. Paper published in SCI (Thomson Reutor) and Scopus are allowed for promotion. In Private engineering colleges promotion are still depends on years of experience.Most of senior faculty opted teaching as last career option and most of them even can’t stand in the class and speak for 5 minute. Unfortunately these peoples are holding most important decision making portfolio and positions.Normally Decision making positions and portfolio are on rotation basis, However tier 3 colleges Tenure of (Principal/Dean's/HoD) is not fixed they can hold position as much long as their wish. People have strong love for chairs and positions. This created like master and slave structure among faculties. Most of the time decision making authorities make misuse posts and positions. This created vacuum in fresh leadership among College.Students skip classes because they can learn more efficiently on their own. Teachers skip classes to avoid student’s questions. When they teach, they read from their dated notes and administer strict disciplinary codes to ensure no one ask question. Rote teaching and learning are fostered.There is no project or challenging assignment that integrate the various the various topics, subjects, or fields. There is no group or collaborative project or ones that focus on solving real-world problems. The exam questions are repeated year, which students prepare for and pass. Instead going through textbooks and reference book they use local books and paper solution for passing in exams. Termwork files and assignment are just copy paste from outdated file without conducting the actual experiment. Even some teachers are unable to stand in class deliver lecture for 10 minutes. This become win win situation for teachers and students. Teachers can claim that they are teaching and that their students are learning. Students pass the exam and get their degree without much effort.“(We) studied to score (Marks) as opposed to studied to learn”Hardly any students knows about importance of internship. Even though anyone wish to join the internship University exams and colleges won't allow them to join the internship due to so called busy routine and schedule.Most of students purchase seminar report and projects. Number of readymade project selling companies are interestingly increasing day by day.Institute library consist exam guides rather than original text and reference books.“There were only few great faculty members, Industry lures the best of them, and only a handful are ready to sacrifice those perks"We have senior faculty members (Director, Deans and heads) who keep departmental library books and other resources locked under supervision they did not want their junior faculty members to use resources lest they get better than him. They also intestinally recruit and retain below average faculty. Most of the faculties are temporary or adhoc basic. There is no surety that they will be paid or not paid. Actual salary is different what is on salary slip.Many College allow external students and allow them to copy in exam for improvement in result.Faculty recruitment norms are different is different engineering colleges. In last 5 to 7 years there was sudden rise in number of engineering colleges and to cope up with demand tier 3 (University affiliated) colleges started PG courses ignoring the quality of education most of copied some thesis for the sake of degree no one is there to guide them. Most horrible situation is even some colleges started the PhD Research Center (PhD) where no one capable to guide students.As per AICTE norms PG degree is enough to become faculty. College management employed the faculty at lowest possible salary.There are various regulatory boards like AICTE, MHRD, NBA, NAAC, LIC and Ranking framework NIRF however now one care about faculty pay and promotion in private college. There are few good private colleges, however the number is very low as per requirement.IIT, NIT, IIIT and other centrally funded institute have few quality faculty members. Faculty salary structure is little good.Placement at these institutes is very good because admission cutoff to get admission in these institutions is very high and there is no management quota admission. Industry offer them good package because of quality and intelligence of students. They are best brain in the country.Students are not connected with faculty, faculties are disconnected with research and industry. Even many faculties mock or hate the faculty who is involved in research or innovation kind of things. There is poor or no support from higher authorities for research or innovation kind of activities.Instead of focusing on academic and research, Most of the time faculties are involved with unnecessary clerical work. Faculties won't have time to teach, guide the students. Hardly any faculties care about students internship, seminars and projects.Most of Management don't care about faculty and faculties are stressed, they could not feed their family and maintain themselves. They have other option to involving in some another work. Ultimately faculties will not care about about academics and students.Most of management think engineering colleges are the most easy way t earn money ignoring quality of education.Quality people (Faculties) start looking for alternative job, most of talented faculties already escaped or escaping from this profession.More than 90% engineering graduate are passing from Tier 3 Engineering institute where quality of education is very poor.The main problem is India is most of engineering faculties don't aware about quality education, unfortunately even they don't want to know. Most of faculties care about salary and pay but never ready to upgrade. Most of them won’t have any idea what is happening in Industry.Most of the faculties consider teaching as “Job” not career.Most important neither engineering students learn to think nor faculty have time to think!!At the end you will see number of engineer graduate having “Degree without jobs” This is become a very serious issue as they are spoiling the career of lacs youth.However some bright spot in IndiaDeepak Pathak is a professor of CSE at IIT Bombay. He recalled his days as undergraduate students at SGSITS Indore. He told me that for the first exam he diligently studied all the topics. Then he realized that he could cover just six of the ten topics and still do well. Shortly thereafter, He realized that exam questions were being repeated from previous years and he could just review past exam papers. Fortunately for IIT students and the industry, he did not take his SGSITS experience forward. Phatak takes special pride in setting question papers that are never repeated. He is PI of MOOC initiative in India. He is a passionate and self-driven person, and his eyes light up as he shares the impact that the MOOCs and Teachers training initiatives are making. He is also architect behind the Akaash project for building low-cost tablets. Pathak is one of the exceptionable faculty members in India. Deepak Phatak at IIT Bombay highlights the value of exceptional faculty members. They are educating students, conducting research, establishing meaningful Industry-government-university collaborations offers consultancy services to Industry, fueling startup to create entrepreneurs and having an impact in local communities and around the country. People like Phataks unfortunately, are currently few and far between. Fortunately students can learn a various MOOC platform on Internet like Coursera, Udacity India, edX, , SWAYAM, NPTEL, Unacademy, Udemy, and from Google, Quora, YouTube BYJU'S app , Toppr.com etc as there is huge shortage of good faculty.Recently, Union cabinet had approved the Seventh Pay Commission package for teachers of central higher education institutes - universities, colleges, IITs, IIMs, NITs, IISERs and IIITs - raising the overall package in the range of 22 to 28 per cent which faculty job attractive.Some Popular startup by IIT Delhi Students/Facuties/AlumniFlipkartSnapdealQuikrZomatoRenew PowerPolicy BazaarShopcluesApp DynamicsNutanixDelhiveryRivigoSome Popular startup by IIT Bombay Students/Faculties/AlumniOla Cabs- Bhavish Aggarwal, http://Housing.com Rahul yadav and other 12 students IIT Bombay,Toppr: Learning app for classes 5th to 12th Zishaan Hayath and Hemanth Goteti,Fabfurnish: Vikram Chopra , http://Inkfruit.com : Kashyap Dalal, Travel Triangle Sanchit Garg, one of the co-founders is a IIT Bombay alumni, Bewakoof.com: Prabhkiran Singh and Siddharth MunotThe online shopping platform for casual-wear was co-founded by . They both were from IIT Bombay 2007-11 B.Tech batch.Most of points are my personal experience, observations and some are composed from the book “Building Golden India: How to unleash India’s vast potential and transform its higher education system by Shailendra Kumar” Excellent book on Higher education in India. He was former administrator at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. Shail received his MBA from Indiana University, Bloomington and B.Tech. (Hons.) from IIT Kharagpur.This is applicable to all courses BA, BSc, B Pharm, BBA, BCA, Bcom, and MBBS, BAMS etc.

Do we witness America at the beginning of the end?All empires die eventually, they have a use-by date and most of them die because of disease from within called corruption or revolt by the people because of widespread corruption, neglect of its people. Seldom is a great empire lost in battle. Rome, Greece, French and Russian RevolutionsI like to pass on this article by Wade Davis who holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia.It is dated AUGUST 6, 2020 8:00 AM ET, so it is recent.Note: I have not checked the accuracy of the figures and numbers quoted and I have taken the liberty to edit it a little for expediency purposes. The original is here: The Unraveling of AmericaNever in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. For the first time in the history of the world, all of humanity, informed by the unprecedented reach of digital technology, has come together, focused on the same existential threat, consumed by the same fears and uncertainties, eagerly anticipating the same, as yet unrealized, promises of medical science.In a single season, civilization has been brought low by a microscopic parasite 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. COVID-19 attacks our physical bodies, but also the cultural foundations of our lives.The fastest vaccine ever developed was for mumps. It took four years. COVID-19 killed 100,000 Americans in four months. [160 000 todate]. There is some evidence that natural infection may not imply immunity, leaving some to question how effective a vaccine will be, even assuming one can be found. And it must be safe. If the global population is to be immunized, lethal complications in just one person in a thousand would imply the death of millions.The President and the PlaguePandemics and plagues have a way of shifting the course of history, and not always in a manner immediately evident to the survivors. In the 14th Century, the Black Death killed close to half of Europe’s population.The COVID pandemic will be remembered as such a moment in history, a seminal event whose significance will unfold only in the wake of the crisis.COVID’s historic significance lies not in what it implies for our daily lives. Change, after all, is the one constant when it comes to culture. All peoples in all places at all times are always dancing with new possibilities for life. As companies eliminate or downsize central offices, employees work from home, restaurants close, shopping malls shutter, streaming brings entertainment and sporting events into the home, and airline travel becomes ever more problematic and miserable, people will adapt, as we’ve always done. To be sure, financial uncertainty will cast a long shadow.Unsettling as these transitions and circumstances will be, short of a complete economic collapse, none stands out as a turning point in history. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with more than 2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional and incompetent government largely responsible for death rates that added a tragic coda to America’s claim to supremacy in the world.For the first time, the international community felt compelled to send disaster relief to Washington. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.” As American doctors and nurses eagerly awaited emergency airlifts of basic supplies from China, the hinge of history opened to the Asian century.No empire long endures, even if few anticipate their demise. Every kingdom is born to die.The 15th century belonged to the Portuguese, the 16th to Spain, 17th to the Dutch. France dominated the 18th and Britain the 19th. Bled white and left bankrupt by the Great War, the British maintained a pretence of domination as late as 1935, when the empire reached its greatest geographical extent. By then, of course, the torch had long passed into the hands of America.In 1940, with Europe already ablaze, the United States had a smaller army than either Portugal or Bulgaria. Within four years, 18 million men and women would serve in uniform, with millions more working double shifts in mines and factories that made America, as President Roosevelt promised, the arsenal of democracy.When the Japanese within six weeks of Pearl Harbor took control of 90% of the world’s rubber supply, the U.S. dropped the speed limit to 35 mph to protect tires, and then, in three years, invented from scratch a synthetic-rubber industry that allowed Allied armies to roll over the Nazis. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock.B-24 Liberator bombers being assembled at Ford Motor Co.'s Willow Run Bomber factory in Detroit in 1943.Historians see lessons in how government mobilized business for wartime production that could help enlist business in the fight against coronavirus.Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years; the record was a ship built in four days, 15 hours and 29 minutes. [probably quicker than the Nazi’s could build a single torpedo]. A single American factory, Chrysler’s Detroit Arsenal, built more tanks than the whole of the Third Reich.Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio on April 3rd, 1944.In the wake of the war, with Europe and Japan in ashes, the United States with but 6 % of the world’s population accounted for half of the global economy, including the production of 93 % of all automobiles.Such economic dominance birthed a vibrant middle class, a trade union movement that allowed a single breadwinner with limited education to own a home and a car, support a family and send his kids to good schools. It was not by any means a perfect world but affluence allowed for a truce between capital and labor, a reciprocity of opportunity in a time of rapid growth and declining income inequality, marked by high tax rates for the wealthy, who were by no means the only beneficiaries of a golden age of American capitalism.But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries.Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace, making it, as he wrote, “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.”Since 2001, the U.S. has spent over $6 trillion on military operations and war, money that might have been invested in the infrastructure at home. China, meanwhile, built its nation, pouring more cement every three years than America did in the entire 20th century.As America policed the world, the violence came home.On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, the Allied death toll was 4,414; in 2019, domestic gun violence had killed that many American men and women by the end of April [4 months]. By June of that year, guns in the hands of ordinary Americans had caused more casualties than the Allies suffered in Normandy in the first month of a campaign that consumed the military strength of five nations.More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose.In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 % of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six % of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes.With slogans like “24/7” celebrating complete dedication to the workplace, men and women exhausted themselves in jobs that only reinforced their isolation from their families. The average American father spends less than 20 minutes a day in direct communication with his child. By the time a youth reaches 18, he or she will have spent fully two years watching television or staring at a laptop screen, contributing to an obesity epidemic that the Joint Chiefs have called a national security crisis.Only half of Americans report having meaningful, face-to-face social interactions on a daily basis. The nation consumes two-thirds of the world’s production of antidepressant drugs. The collapse of the working-class family has been responsible in part for an opioid crisis that has displaced car accidents as the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.At the root of this transformation and decline lies an ever-widening chasm between Americans who have and those who have little or nothing. Economic disparities exist in all nations, creating a tension that can be as disruptive as the inequities are unjust. In any number of settings, however, the negative forces tearing apart a society are mitigated or even muted if there are other elements that reinforce social solidarity — religious faith, the strength and comfort of family, the pride of tradition, fidelity to the land, a spirit of place.But when all the old certainties are shown to be lies, when the promise of a good life for a working family is shattered as factories close and corporate leaders, growing wealthier by the day, ship jobs abroad, the social contract is irrevocably broken.For two generations, America has celebrated globalization with iconic intensity, when, as any working man or woman can see, it’s nothing more than capital on the prowl in search of ever-cheaper sources of labour.For many years, those on the conservative right in the United States have invoked nostalgia for the 1950s, and an America that never was, but has to be presumed to have existed to rationalize their sense of loss and abandonment, their fear of change, their bitter resentments and lingering contempt for the social movements of the 1960s, a time of new aspirations for women, gays, and people of colour. In truth, at least in economic terms, the country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 %. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees.Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite 1% of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half has more debt than assets. The three richest Americans have more money than the poorest 160 million of their countrymen.Fully a fifth of American households have zero or negative net worth, a figure that rises to 37 % for black families. The median wealth of black households is a tenth that of whites. The vast majority of Americans — white, black, and brown — are two paychecks removed from bankruptcy. Though living in a nation that celebrates itself as the wealthiest in history, most Americans live on a high wire, with no safety net to brace a fall.With the COVID crisis, 40 million Americans lost their jobs, and 3.3 million businesses shut down, including 41 % of all black-owned enterprises. Black Americans, who significantly outnumber whites in federal prisons despite being but 13 % of the population, are suffering shockingly high rates of morbidity and mortality, dying at nearly three times the rate of white Americans. The cardinal rule of American social policy — don’t let any ethnic group get below the blacks, or allow anyone to suffer more indignities — rang true even in a pandemic as if the virus was taking its cues from American history.COVID-19 didn’t lay America low; it simply revealed what had long been forsaken. As the crisis unfolded, with another American dying every minute of every day, a country that once turned out fighter planes by the hour could not manage to produce the paper masks or cotton swabs essential for tracking the disease.The nation that defeated smallpox and polio, and led the world for generations in medical innovation and discovery, [had landed a man on the moon and brought him safely back to earth] was reduced to a laughing stock as a buffoon of a president advocated the use of household disinfectants as a treatment for a disease that intellectually he could not begin to understand.As a number of countries moved expeditiously to contain the virus, the United States stumbled along in denial, as if willfully blind.[The states wound up competing for scarce material with one another, driving up prices, and "leading to big disparities between military units from larger, wealthier states, like New York, and poorer ones, like Indiana." he ordered the seizure of a shipment of masks overseas that had been bound for Germany.BERLIN—German officials said a shipment of face masks destined for Germany was seized at Bangkok airport and diverted to the U.S. in an act of “modern piracy”—the latest accusation that the Trump administration is throwing its weight around in the global scramble to secure scarce protective equipment needed in the fight against coronavirus infections.In March, Germany’s government accused President Trump of trying to persuade a local biotech firm in an advanced stage of developing a coronavirus vaccine to relocate its research...With less than 4 % of the global population, the U.S. soon accounted for more than a fifth of COVID deaths. The percentage of American victims of the disease who died was six times the global average. Achieving the world’s highest rate of morbidity and mortality provoked not shame, but only further lies, scapegoating and boasts of miracle cures as dubious as the claims of a carnival barker, a grifter on the make. [The mortality rate is higher than those of Brazil and or India, considered third-world counties]As the United States responded to the crisis like a corrupt tinpot dictatorship, the actual tin-pot dictators of the world took the opportunity to seize the high ground, relishing a rare sense of moral superiority, especially in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.The autocratic leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, chastised America for “maliciously violating ordinary citizens’ rights.” North Korean newspapers objected to “police brutality” in America. Quoted in the Iranian press, Ayatollah Khamenei gloated, “America has begun the process of its own destruction.”Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong. When an American official raised the issue of human rights on Twitter, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, invoking the killing of George Floyd, responded with one short phrase, “I can’t breathe.”These politically motivated remarks may be easy to dismiss. But Americans have not done themselves any favours. Their political process made possible the ascendancy to the highest office in the land a national disgrace, a demagogue as morally and ethically compromised as a person can be. As a British writer quipped, “there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid”.The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055. If America’s first president, George Washington, famously could not tell a lie, the current one can’t recognize the truth. Inverting the words and sentiments of Abraham Lincoln, this dark troll of a man celebrates malice for all, and charity for none.Odious as he may be, Trump is less the cause of America’s decline than a product of its descent. As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the lifeblood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom.In a land that once welcomed the huddled masses of the world, more people today favour building a wall along the southern border than supporting health care and protection for the undocumented mothers and children arriving in desperation at its doors. In a complete abandonment of the collective good, U.S. laws define freedom as an individual’s inalienable right to own a personal arsenal of weaponry, a natural entitlement that trumps even the safety of children; in the past decade alone 346 American students and teachers have been shot on school grounds.The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.How can the rest of the world expect America to lead on global threats — climate change, the extinction crisis, pandemics — when the country no longer has a sense of benign purpose, or collective well-being, even within its own national community? Flag-wrapped patriotism is no substitute for compassion; anger and hostility no match for love. Those who flock to beaches, bars, and political rallies, putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted, the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic and the fortitude to defeat it. Leading their charge is Donald Trump, a bone spur warrior, a liar and a fraud, a grotesque caricature of a strong man, with the backbone of a bully.Over the last months, a quip has circulated on the internet suggesting that to live in Canada today is like owning an apartment above a meth lab. Canada is no perfect place, but it has handled the COVID crisis well, notably in British Columbia, where I live. Vancouver is just three hours by road north of Seattle, where the U.S. outbreak began. Half of Vancouver’s population is Asian, and typically dozens of flights arrive each day from China and East Asia. Logically, it should have been hit very hard, but the health care system performed exceedingly well. Throughout the crisis, testing rates across Canada have been consistently five times that of the U.S. On a per capita basis, Canada has suffered half the morbidity and mortality. For every person who has died in British Columbia, 44 have perished in Massachusetts, a state with a comparable population that has reported more COVID cases than all of Canada. As of July 30th, even as rates of COVID infection and death soared across much of the United States, with 59,629 new cases reported on that day alone, hospitals in British Columbia registered a total of just five [5] COVID patients.When American friends ask for an explanation, I encourage them to reflect on the last time they bought groceries at their neighbourhood Safeway. In the U.S. there is almost always a racial, economic, cultural, and educational chasm between the consumer and the check-out staff that is difficult if not impossible to bridge.In Canada, the experience is quite different. One interacts if not as peers, certainly as members of a wider community. The reason for this is very simple. The checkout person may not share your level of affluence, but they know that you know that they are getting a living wage because of the unions. And they know that you know that their kids and yours most probably go to the same neighbourhood public school. Third, and most essential, they know that you know that if their children get sick, they will get exactly the same level of medical care not only of your children but of those of the prime minister. These three strands woven together become the fabric of Canadian social democracy.Asked what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi famously replied, “I think that would be a good idea.” Such a remark may seem cruel, but it accurately reflects the view of America today as seen from the perspective of any modern social democracy.Canada performed well during the COVID crisis because of our social contract, the bonds of community, the trust for each other and our institutions, our health care system in particular, with hospitals that cater to the medical needs of the collective, not the individual, and certainly not the private investor who views every hospital bed as if a rental property. The measure of wealth in a civilized nation is not the currency accumulated by the lucky few, but rather the strength and resonance of social relations and the bonds of reciprocity that connect all people in common purpose.This has nothing to do with political ideology, and everything to do with the quality of life. Finns live longer and are less likely to die in childhood or in giving birth than Americans. Danes earn roughly the same after-tax income as Americans while working 20 % less. They pay in taxes an extra 19 cents for every dollar earned. But in return they get free health care, free education from pre-school through university, and the opportunity to prosper in a thriving free-market economy with dramatically lower levels of poverty, homelessness, crime, and inequality. The average worker is paid better, treated more respectfully, and rewarded with life insurance, pension plans, maternity leave, and six weeks of paid vacation a year. All of these benefits only inspire Danes to work harder, with fully 80 % of men and women aged 16 to 64 engaged in the labour force, a figure far higher than that of the United States.American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society. That social democracy will never take hold in the United States may well be true, but, if so, it is a stunning indictment, and just what Oscar Wilde had in mind when he quipped that the United States was the only country to go from barbarism to decadence without passing through civilization.Evidence of such terminal decadence is the choice that so many Americans made in 2016 to prioritize their personal indignations, placing their own resentments above any concerns for the fate of the country and the world, as they rushed to elect a man whose only credential for the job was his willingness to give voice to their hatreds, validate their anger, and target their enemies, real or imagined. One shudders to think of what it will mean to the world if Americans in November, knowing all that they do, elect to keep such a man in political power. But even should Trump be resoundingly defeated, it’s not at all clear that such a profoundly polarized nation will be able to find a way forward. For better or for worse, America has had its time.The end of the American era and the passing of the torch to Asia is no occasion for celebration, no time to gloat. In a moment of international peril, when humanity might well have entered a dark age beyond all conceivable horrors, the industrial might of the United States, together with the blood of ordinary Russian soldiers, literally saved the world. American ideals, as celebrated by Madison and Monroe, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, at one time inspired and gave hope to millions.If and when the Chinese are ascendant, with their concentration camps for the Uighurs, the ruthless reach of their military, their 200 million surveillance cameras watching every move and gesture of their people, we will surely long for the best years of the American century. For the moment, we have only the kleptocracy of Donald Trump. Between praising the Chinese for their treatment of the Uighurs, describing their internment and torture as “exactly the right thing to do,” and his dispensing of medical advice concerning the therapeutic use of chemical disinfectants, Trump blithely remarked, “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” He had in mind, of course, the coronavirus, but, as others have said, he might just as well have been referring to the American dream.World War II offers lessons—and warnings—for the coronavirus fightBY JEREMY KAHN April 5, 2020 2:14 PM GMT+10World War II offers lessons—and warnings—for the coronavirus fightThe decline of American values in action.US CONGRESSMAN TED YOHO RESIGNS FROM CHRISTIAN ORGANISATION'S BOARD