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__Panel- You have been teaching at some of the top notch universities in US and India. How are the students at both places different?__
__R Balu__: I think it’s the way our education system functions. I teach a course for undergraduate students at Cornell. I teach the same course for graduate students in India. I don’t change anything - my content, quality, way of expression; it’s all the same. Every day after my class, I ask my students to write a reflection note. How did the lecture affect you? What was your mental mechanism during the lecture? If you give me two notes without names, I can tell which one is of an
__R Balu__: I think it’s the way our education system functions. I teach a course for undergraduate students at Cornell. I teach the same course for graduate students in India (business school in Mysore). I don’t change anything - my content, quality, way of expression; it’s all the same. Every day after my class, I ask my students to write a reflection note. How did the lecture affect you? What was your mental mechanism during the lecture? If you give me two notes without names, I can tell which one is of an
Indian student and that of an American student. An American student will actually reflect on what I spoke. Reflective thinking is ingrained in the educational system, at least in the USA. In India, repetitive thinking is ingrained. Nobody needs to teach you reflection. You can start reflecting right now. If I were to ask you what I spoke today, you would write it very nicely. But if I ask you how did it impact you, how did it change your life, you won’t process it with the same
competence. I am not saying repetition is bad, but reflection is better. So if Indians reflect as they repeat, the sky’s the limit.