What are the positives and negatives in the Indian education system?
POSITIVES:Indian Education System provides essential sex education and awareness leading to a healthier society with minimum cases of sexual harassment and reducing the number of misguided teens exponentially.RESERVATION : Our education system ensures that students are aware of the fact that the family they are born in and their surname plays the most important role in determining what they deserve per unit of their efforts, irrespective of their financial condition or number of generations that already redeemed an advantage.Learning over Cramming : Our education system focuses on learning the concepts rather than memorizing formulas. Here in India, marks and grades are given least importance, your practical problem solving skills matter the most.Innovation and Research : Student projects and research work are given utmost importance , except in IITs and some NITs. There is no place for plagiarism. No one can copy or buy projects.ONE OF A KIND CURRICULUM : Our education system is tailored precisely for our needs and overall development of students. All the grading and evaluation parameters are NOT COPIED FROM FAILED CURRICULUM OF FOREIGN NATIONS.BROAD SPECTRUM : Students can opt from a variety of carriers according to their interests. Our education system provides ample options to students so that they can chose the major that really interests them unlike other countries where education means either ENGINEERING OR MEDICAL.WORLD CLASS PRIMARY EDUCATION : Our education system gives highest priority to primary education as it is the most important phase of education indeed. Some of the most qualified teachers are appointed with attractive salaries.EQUAL IMPORTANCE TO SPORTS AND FITNESS : Sports and Physical education are given equal importance as academia. India’s brilliant performance at Olympics and all other international sports events except cricket certifies this point.NEGATIVES:Well in a country comprising of more than 1 billion people , where the brightest of students work within the country, where we require to import fighter aircrafts from a country which is just a fraction of us in terms of area or population, I don’t think there would be any negative traits of education system in such a country !AK
Exactly how corrupt is the Indian Army?
After reading this question I felt the need to answer it even if I do it anonymously. I think Indian Defence service is the most respected service in India. I mean seriously, my father in a Defence personnel in Indian Air Force. When I travel somewhere outside the defence area and the people around me come to know that I am from a defence background, suddenly I can see the respect from me and my family among them.This is the biggest reason for the corruption in Defence service. This respect and belief leads to corruption, without the common people knowing about it. The one who knows about it, don’t let it come out because either he is in it or he doesn’t wanna get fired or he doesn’t want this respect to get diminished.I would like to highlight some of the areas where I myself felt that there is a lot of corruption :As mentioned earlier in some of the answers, corruption in recruitment. The children of highly ranked personnel in Defence service easily pass NDA to get recruited in Army,Air Force and Navy. Their call letter is just a few calls away.Defence Canteens, the canteen manager takes bribe from the contractors to make their product brand available in canteen. They receive a lot of gifts and under table money of it. So if you want your brand biscuits to be available in canteen, go bribe the manager.Contract for any service provided by civilians for example - any stationary, tailoring, grocery store etc.This part I came to know about via news channels. So most of the readers must already know about it. The equipment scams, like buying aircraft and ships which doesn’t meet the standards of defence requirements.Kendriya Vidyalaya admission, KV is school run by government for the children of defence personnel mainly. If all the seat in the class are not filled, then civilians are allowed to take admission in class on first come first serve basis. But because of the low fees and high standard of KV there are lots of parents who want their children to join KV. Hence the principle ends up giving admission of the basis “Highest bidder gets a seat”.Note : For all the above points mentioned above, I am not saying that this happens everywhere across India, but among the 5 places I have lived through out my father’s career in IAF I have encountered these in many of the places.Maybe this is one of the reasons why my father don’t want me to join Defence Services.Thank You for asking this question.
What are some slang terms used among police officers?
The most derogatory terms for the bad guys and citizens who are just pains in the rectum:A.H. = Adam Henry (A-dam H-enry) If you don’t get it…..sometimes you will hear it as “Jack Hole”…..now what starts with an “A” that ends with HOLE ?RICHARD CRANIUM= What starts with a “D” and is a nickname for Richard ? What is the non-medical layman’s term for the Cranium ? Do these clues HEAD you in the right direction ?
If God is omnibenevolent, why is there suffering in this world?
This is a class philosophy question otherwise known as the Problem of evil. The problem dates back to Epicurus who essentially posited that if there exist a God which is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good then there should not exist evil. Of the following statements it follows that one must be incorrect:God exists. There is a God.God is all-powerful. There is nothing God cannot do.God is all-knowing. There is nothing God does not know.God is all-benevolent. There is no good God will not do.Evil exists. There is evil in the world.We know number 5 is factually true, we cannot discount it. Given the other four there is obvious contradiction. If there is evil God knows about it. If God knows about such evil then God must do the good within its power, which is unlimited.A most common misunderstanding in this problem is that evil is the result of free will. This does not fully reconcile the problem as it misses the point of “evil” in this context. Evil here is in reference to the absolute impact on “good” rather than in reference to a characteristic property of an actor with intent. A man with a gun might be evil, but in this context so would be a housefire, a meteor, a lightning bolt or any other catastrophic act of nature including disease such as cancer or aids. Where “free will” makes apparent the devil in human nature, it does not fully remove the devil in God’s nature.The simplest means to reconcile this is to discard any of #’s 1 through 4 as this would discard the contradiction. The discarding of either #1 or #4 often making the most sense (in the Abrahamic faiths God is depicted often as wrathful, which certainly falls outside all-benevolent). Other efforts might question our understanding of “evil” in that as mortal beings exposed only to mortal life on earth that perhaps we overestimate the “evil” we experience in this life as in a potential afterlife the wrongs inflicted upon us may seem rather inconsequential. I personally err on the side of Occam’s razor where better evidence is not manifest.