Comments for Venky's ruminations ....

Comment on “2 Million Minutes” – Movie Review by Tracy Fisher

Tracy Fisher — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:36:14 +0000

Got it! And read it. Excellent review, Venky!!

Tracy

Comment on An Indian perspective after watching “Waiting for Superman” by Tracy Fisher

Tracy Fisher — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:32:18 +0000

WOW!! Venky, that was very insightful! I just read your article and believe it was very informative and hopeful. It inspires me more than ever to win this election! Thank you for sharing and for your support.

Tracy

Comment on An Indian perspective after watching “Waiting for Superman” by V.Venkatasubramanyan

V.Venkatasubramanyan — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:52:37 +0000

A very well thought out and well written article. I am Venky’s father and when we were studying the teacher was given utmost respect and the teachers used to feel really proud when the students did well in the exams.

Comment on “2 Million Minutes” – Movie Review by Mani

Mani — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:40:41 +0000

All my children studied in India in ordinary schools and not elite ones. But they were still all able to go very far in their education. So I feel it is not the type of school but the teaching that matters.

Comment on “2 Million Minutes” – Movie Review by Sandhya Shekhar

Sandhya Shekhar — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:19:55 +0000

So, are you Indian or American?!
Sandhya

Comment on “2 Million Minutes” – Movie Review by Ram Ramanujam

Ram Ramanujam — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:04:13 +0000

Hi Venky
I have not seen the movie but I agree with your analysis.
The only difference and more particular is the drop out rates of American kids from schooling and high cost of college education.
America needs to look at this problem of graduate education cost.
Regards
RAM
Coppell

Comment on “2 Million Minutes” – Movie Review by SAI

SAI — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:06:07 +0000

SAIRAM. Nicely written; however, the statistics quoted are misleading. Looking at it as it is today, of the 310 million US citizens, perhaps 50 million at the most are children going to schools. Of these, per your assumption 45 million have access to decent schools (not true, reality is perhaps more like 30 million of them); in contrast, India and China have over 300 million each in the school-going ages; of these even if just 10% have access to good schools, you are looking at these producing an equal number of very well-schooled children.

And here is the killer – the drop-out rate from US schools is much higher compared to the drop-out rate from the subset of comparable schools in India and China. Thus, in reality, these countries will have much larger number of well-schooled children going on to decent colleges.

Comment on About me …. by Venky Medicharla

Venky Medicharla — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:32:18 +0000

Venky,

Very interesting and there seems to be lot of variety in your Blog. Hopefully i will get to read all the articles one day.

Good luck

Comment on What I learnt from coaching a Destination Imagination team …. by Sridhar

Sridhar — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:21:54 +0000

Nice one Venky. The program (Destination Imagination) itself is interesting that we do not see much in India and, your observations & summary. It has been long that we spoke, let us catch up before next year!

Comment on What I learnt from coaching a Destination Imagination team …. by Sakshi Venkatraman

Sakshi Venkatraman — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:30:39 +0000

Hi dad I like your observations. I agree. I remember that we all wanted to get Rhianna fired. We had a really fun time over all but my face looked weird in the picture.

Sakshi