Re: Umesh on Education

[pjshah <parth@ccsindia.org>]

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"Tiwari, Umesh K" wrote:

>
>  But when this
> survey doesn't represent even 1% of the people I grew up with, then it is
> going to be impossible for me to accept the conclusions thereof. Instead, I
> am willing to sit in the sidelines and watch people make proposals while I
> wait for some surveys/studies that come any closer to my experience,

Well, you know the sampling techniques used in such large surveys.   Even
the US
Census is now going to be done by sampling instead of trying to count every
individual.  So, at least in theory, the argument that since no surveyer has
gone to particular areas, the results must be unrepresentative of the
population
is not valid.

Companies spend millions on ad on the basis of A C Nielsen ratings of TV
programs which are done with a rather small sample (even in the US).  If
any one
could generate more accurate ratings, they would be making the mullahs.

> and I
> am not alone in waiting, cuz, afterall, my hometown, my district, and almost
> the whole world I spent my childhood in, is still waiting for the fruits of
> freedom to reach them even after fifty years of so called freedom.

I find it curious that you seem to equate "free things" or "government
provision" with the "fruits of freedom."  Who has ever fought for freedom
because they want a big government giving them desired goodies?  Freedom is
freedom to act not to some specific goods or results.  As the American
Constitution says  ...right to the _pursuit_ of happiness ...not happiness
itself or happiness guaranteed by any government.
parth-

>
> Thank You.
> Umesh
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