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[Avinash Meetoo]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 17:20, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:

> but " this is your own fault.  system and society do not instill passion.  ",
> I've seen the bald man doing his lectures :p He actually does manage to
> ignite that passion into those students, I've seen the Charisma & teaching
> skills of the man at work!
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The bald man thanks you for your kind words :-)

But :D whatever we are all speaking of right now :D ... It is like a fart
> without smell... for this will stay on a random server somewhere on the
> net, for as long as people don't start breaking stuffs and raise chaos all
> over the country ... which shall never happen.
>

You're right. But I sincerely believe that, instead of having revolutions,
it's better to make the system evolve to something better. As a matter of
fact, the Internet is proving to be an important tool for learning and this
will force teachers to adapt.

Bright people can learn a lot by themselves. Of course, a good teacher can
also contribute a lot but not as a creator of knowledge, more as a curator
and as someone who can share some real life experience (and this is an
important issue as, as far as I know, most teachers have never really
worked as developers and/or system administrators so they lack this kind of
insight).

We are not given the chance to grow up and become what we want [well the
> very few who do manage to do that do not have anything offerred either]. We
> are just GROWN like products to satisfy a certain "industry's NEED". So far
> I don't see any difference between a piece of equipment and a human,
> because both seems not to have any choice or very lil choice at the end of
> the day.
>

This is somewhat true especially when you read about I.T. (whatever that
means) becoming a pillar of the economy in Mauritius.

Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are what they are because
some bright young people decided to change the(ir) world and they did. They
did not create their companies because the US Government was interested in
making I.T. become a pillar of the economy. They just wanted to be
different and to change the lives of people. I'm afraid that this is still
rare in Mauritius...

What do you think?

Avinash


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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org> wrote:
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>> On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:40 AM, David Hitillambeau wrote:
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>> > As Avinash pointed out, I do believe that inspiration & passion is what
>> we are missing here:
>> > The system and society do not instil the sense of vocation whenever
>> it's time to choose a walk of life.
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>> this is your own fault.  system and society do not instill passion.  this
>> is a personal thing.
>> if you are looking for someone else to generate passion for you, in what
>> you do, you're sadly mistaken.
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>> take a long, hard look at yourself - you're the techies;  the fiddlers;
>>  the people that are *meant* to be passionate about what believe in!
>> isn't this what drove you to want to tinker with linux / *nix ?
>> and yet, the best you can come up with, is to pick on other people trying
>> to do their work done, in a manner that they know how to ?
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>> if you're not willing to make && make fix,  you don't deserve to complain.
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>> --n.
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