ITBHU.org Editor @ 12:16 AM

There is an interesting article that quotes the TISCO MD, an IIT-M alumnus,  stating that IITs are  thriving on their past reputation and TISCO is not likely to recruit IIT graduates any longer. It further quotes a professor on the quality of the crop of students:

Coaching Factories Are Dumbing Down The IITs : outlookindia.com

Prof B.N. Banerjee touches upon his classroom experience: "JEE has spawned a system that reduces young people to automatons, in more senses than one. They not only become robots in academics, as all of us can see in our core teaching encounters, they even resemble one another in personality. Gone are the sparkling eyes and scintillating engagements that used to be the teacher's joy..."

What is interesting is that the quoted IIT professors have very skillfully deflected the criticism on the quality of the students they graduate on the quality of their incoming crop. There is nary a mention what exactly the IIT (and here ITBHU is included as well) education system is doing with these students in the intervening four years.

What about the professors rolling up their sleeves and injecting a sense of inquiry and growth mindset into these students? Why can't they work harder and more creatively to draft quizzes and exam papers that test the students' ability to think on their feet and creatively and let it be known through examples that they will fail students? As as often done in the corporate world, there is nothing like holding someone's feet to the fire to get them working harder!