Comments on: How meritorious is ‘Merit’? http://thefishpond.in/girijakp/2009/how-meritorious-is-merit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-meritorious-is-merit placid, never! Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Samuel Miguel http://thefishpond.in/girijakp/2009/how-meritorious-is-merit/#comment-75 Samuel Miguel Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:06:19 +0000 http://thefishpond.in/?p=50#comment-75 Firstly, I don't agree with using an example from a fictional movie. And then again, it isn't about merit at all .. this is just how people have expectations about others based on their race , gender , etc. Sometimes, people will place higher expectations .. for example Indians are expected to be intelligent and studious by many Americans. True merit coupled with hard work will get people what they deserve. Firstly, I don’t agree with using an example from a fictional movie. And then again, it isn’t about merit at all .. this is just how people have expectations about others based on their race , gender , etc. Sometimes, people will place higher expectations .. for example Indians are expected to be intelligent and studious by many Americans. True merit coupled with hard work will get people what they deserve.

]]> By: Santosh http://thefishpond.in/girijakp/2009/how-meritorious-is-merit/#comment-46 Santosh Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:51:01 +0000 http://thefishpond.in/?p=50#comment-46 The worst part of whole competition and merit issue is that people who claims to have merit spends the most on coaching and private tuition. It is an irony that can't do self study for competition. They are ready to throw away any amount of money to get seats. It is not very uncommon for people to pay millions, apart from their contacts, to get a seat under management quota and any sort of back door entry where ever it is possible. The worst part of whole competition and merit issue is that people who claims to have merit spends the most on coaching and private tuition. It is an irony that can’t do self study for competition. They are ready to throw away any amount of money to get seats. It is not very uncommon for people to pay millions, apart from their contacts, to get a seat under management quota and any sort of back door entry where ever it is possible.

]]> By: P K Ratheesh http://thefishpond.in/girijakp/2009/how-meritorious-is-merit/#comment-44 P K Ratheesh Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:54:57 +0000 http://thefishpond.in/?p=50#comment-44 In a panel discussion on merit and reservation (Loyola College, Chennai,, 2006), one of the panelists, a social science teacher from IITD informed about the performance of SC/ST/OBC students in her classroom: “the upper caste students look at them with strong prejudices as they have no merit, but got in just because of reservation. But they [Dalits and OBCs] also remain silent in the class. We [as upper-caste teachers] try our level best to make them speak in the classroom, but still they keep quiet”. Here, and in similar situations the merit of Dalit/OBC students is evaluated by simply reading their silence. But look at the dilemma with which this silence is performed—if you speak out in the class with ‘good’ English, then people will say “why they want reservation?, they are speaking ‘good’ English” and if you don’t speak, you will be branded as dumb, with no merit but just got in by reservation. “Only those who don't listen to the silence think it's silent”—Geoffrey Sirc In a panel discussion on merit and reservation (Loyola College, Chennai,, 2006), one of the panelists, a social science teacher from IITD informed about the performance of SC/ST/OBC students in her classroom: “the upper caste students look at them with strong prejudices as they have no merit, but got in just because of reservation. But they [Dalits and OBCs] also remain silent in the class. We [as upper-caste teachers] try our level best to make them speak in the classroom, but still they keep quiet”. Here, and in similar situations the merit of Dalit/OBC students is evaluated by simply reading their silence. But look at the dilemma with which this silence is performed—if you speak out in the class with ‘good’ English, then people will say “why they want reservation?, they are speaking ‘good’ English” and if you don’t speak, you will be branded as dumb, with no merit but just got in by reservation.

“Only those who don’t listen to the silence think it’s silent”—Geoffrey Sirc

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