Texy Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) source Edited October 20, 2020 by Texy mishra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechEng Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 This sounds more like a dissertation than a high school project. She has to be gifted to discover something like this at 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechEng Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 I thought Indian Americans will chill out in high school like American Pie movies far away from academic pressure cooker of India. But padhai ka keeda genetic hai Hindustani log mein! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retired_hurt Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Indian kids in US on the other hand are busy memorising english dictionary for spelling bee to make their parents proud. putrevus, Laaloo, Stan AF and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandeep Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 And she does Bharatnatyam. So impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishra Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, retired_hurt said: Indian kids in US on the other hand are busy memorising english dictionary for spelling bee to make their parents proud. Indian kids are smart and hardworking. They are using/training their brains at young age which will inevitably build a better brain. Instead of Using bongs/gong/drugs, I will say, they are creating fine example for rest of population. Edited October 20, 2020 by mishra coffee_rules 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retired_hurt Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) 15 hours ago, mishra said: Indian kids are smart and hardworking. They are using/training their brains at young age which will inevitably build a better brain. Instead of Using bongs/gong/drugs, I will say, they are creating fine example for rest of population. Acing spelling bees isn't going to come handy in the future. Also, most of them are doing are parental pressure. I doubt these young kids are enthusiastic about spending hours daily learning how to spell difficult words. Indian parents should have focussed on their overall development instead of making them a rattu tota and bragging about their achievements to fellow indians. Edited October 21, 2020 by retired_hurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishra Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, retired_hurt said: Acing spelling bees isn't going to come handy in the future. Also, most of them are doing are parental pressure. I doubt these young kids are enthusiastic about spending hours daily learning how to spell difficult words. Indian parents should have focussed on their overall development instead of making them a rattu tota and bragging about their achievements to fellow indians. Offcourse, acing wont help in literal sense. Now let me give you a similar example in UK context. In UK we have something called 11+ exams (11+ means when child has reached 11 years)to get admission in Grammar schools. Advantage of grammar school is that its admission criteria is based on academic test based selection which effectively means that kids going to that school are academic and offcourse, most likely wont be involved in drugs and bully or knife crime. To crack the exam, Child has to be good at English and decent in other ability like maths reasoning. I come from India and knew that I am at disadvantage as language spoken at home is not English. So, when my child was not even 5, I started reading her bed time stories by borrowing books from library to develop her interest, When she was 10, schools conduct a test as to what level the child is at Reading, Its scored between 1-10. Just to undertand the levels, If you could barely read what character "Bart" is writing on blackboard at start of "The Simpsons", You are probably at level 6-7. At age 10, she was at 8+. By age 12 she was finishing 20 novels each over 400 pages in just a fortnight. Not only that, you could discuss basic ideas of gravitation, friction, atomic structure and she could understand. Why was she able to understand? Because she has allready gone through so many books and stories that her brain is developed. I am sure the kids in US, acing those spelling bee exams are not reading dictionary. They are also reading thousands of books, which would be opening their brains to new ideas and views. PS: Thousand of books means thousands of books. They are not just interested in spending time in front of television. They allready know allmost every story of kids/teen movies before its even conceptulsied. They want to read more. their concentration level is of highest order. For example, I have never finished a complete novel. I will say wait and watch how this new generation of Indian kids (born to IT/Doc/professional parents) flourish in next 20 to 30 years globally. Edited October 21, 2020 by mishra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BacktoCricaddict Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 It is amazing that a 14-yr old can do this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global.Baba Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, retired_hurt said: Acing spelling bees isn't going to come handy in the future. Acing spelling bees helps these get into big Ivy League colleges in the future . That’s the point. Indian parents are not stupid to waste their kids time if the result has no benefits. Edited October 21, 2020 by Global.Baba coffee_rules 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechEng Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 31 minutes ago, Global.Baba said: Acing spelling bees helps these get into big Ivy League colleges in the future . That’s the point. Indian parents are not stupid to waste their kids time if the result has no benefits. "Beta agar Stanford mein full scholarship mila, then papa will buy you a Tesla. Chalo chalo padhai karo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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