False prestige

Rishi wrote:It is not only the school authorities who are to be blamed but also parents, many of whom are fastidious about admitting their children in a well-advertised commerce-oriented school even if they have to make their children travel several kilometres up and down either in a crowded city bus or a packed school van, or drive them to school in their own cars. Everything depends on their financial capacity.

Economically lower or middle class people always want to compete with the moneyed class and want to put their children in a sophisticated school or college just for the sake of vanity or false prestige. They do not realise that the sophistication alone will not in any way make the child greater than others going to ordinary schools.

The admission problems are more prevalent in the metropolitan cities and commercial towns. In the villages mostly government schools operate. Students from those schools are equally, if not better educated, than the so-called sophisticated schools in cities and towns. In fact, they seem generally to be better human beings than students from many upscale institutions. The finest example is our former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

>>>This is true for colleges also.

Rishi wrote:It is not only the school authorities who are to be blamed but also parents, many of whom are fastidious about admitting their children in a well-advertised commerce-oriented school even if they have to make their children travel several kilometres up and down either in a crowded city bus or a packed school van, or drive them to school in their own cars. Everything depends on their financial capacity.

Economically lower or middle class people always want to compete with the moneyed class and want to put their children in a sophisticated school or college just for the sake of vanity or false prestige. They do not realise that the sophistication alone will not in any way make the child greater than others going to ordinary schools.

The admission problems are more prevalent in the metropolitan cities and commercial towns. In the villages mostly government schools operate. Students from those schools are equally, if not better educated, than the so-called sophisticated schools in cities and towns. In fact, they seem generally to be better human beings than students from many upscale institutions. The finest example is our former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.


>>>This is true for colleges also.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Rishi wrote:It is not only the school authorities who are to be blamed but also parents, many of whom are fastidious about admitting their children in a well-advertised commerce-oriented school even if they have to make their children travel several kilometres up and down either in a crowded city bus or a packed school van, or drive them to school in their own cars. Everything depends on their financial capacity.

Economically lower or middle class people always want to compete with the moneyed class and want to put their children in a sophisticated school or college just for the sake of vanity or false prestige. They do not realise that the sophistication alone will not in any way make the child greater than others going to ordinary schools.

The admission problems are more prevalent in the metropolitan cities and commercial towns. In the villages mostly government schools operate. Students from those schools are equally, if not better educated, than the so-called sophisticated schools in cities and towns. In fact, they seem generally to be better human beings than students from many upscale institutions. The finest example is our former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.


>>>This is true for colleges also.

 -> and true for white americans too..

"In just about any other community, driving around with a bumper sticker for James Madison University, rated one of the best schools in the South, would be a point of pride. But this is McLean, one of the most affluent communities in the United States. Flaunting a JMU bumper sticker in a field of Harvards, Yales and Stanfords, Bowers says, is a rallying cry.

There’s such a status thing here: ‘I went Georgetown. I want my kid to go to Georgetown or better.’ It’s such a rat race,” says Bowers, who has lived in McLean for 24 years. “Nobody is taking a step back and asking, ‘Is going to Princeton going to make me happier in the long run? Is this even right for my child?’ Because there are real consequences to living this way.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-mclean-a-crusade-to-get-people-to-back-off-in-the-parenting-arms-race/2014/03/23/9259c6a2-a552-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html

truthbetold wrote:Why are you assuming that the parents who went to Georgetown university have not analyzed pros and cons of going to one of the elite universities? 

If we stop throwing individual names around,  statistics show average life time performance of kids at elite schools is better than other schools. So tell me why not send a kid to the best school he or she can get into?

truthbetold wrote:Why are you assuming that the parents who went to Georgetown university have not analyzed pros and cons of going to one of the elite universities? 

If we stop throwing individual names around,  statistics show average life time performance of kids at elite schools is better than other schools. So tell me why not send a kid to the best school he or she can get into?