Why do you think more than 60-70% of US population started despising its own Academia, and its puffery shallow alma maters? Why do you think Trump University defeated every single alma-mater of gimcrack academic cabals, flimsy secret societies, ending up upending the entire politics of US forever, which few anticipated, denounced it ever to happen; YET, happened! The truth is, anywhere in the world, such similar Ivy League produces/produced 80-90% of duplicated self-same industrially trained products (jackpot of crackpots), wherein, the same academia rather marketed itself globally like Hogwarts, yet, their magic never worked, and no Potter revealed, further making the Logic of Grindelwald, and even of General Zod (and not of what the false god in man of steel said), made more sense!
Because, in our delusion, we tried spreading across spectrum that, every great theory on this planet originate(d) from such universities/institutes (be it of any nation) across World, and one shouldn’t even see anywhere else. Result? Even in MAGA who had great theories (and yes, Few indeed do & did), but as no stamp of such puffery hamming IVY League was present; that was disavowed! Alas, such status-quo worked for some time, going by the rote learners, bookish lectures & lecturers, or replicated Industrial Training Modules; but, as its manufactured products were all same, which gave rise to the current global irrevocable political environment. This changed US now & forever!For example, people who make custom bikes have more knowledge than 90% of the Mechanical Engineers, which is true, as the latter do nothing but either working in the assembly lines, or, doing MBA, disbursing loans in the Banks; exaggerating on the similar grounds, the way the above alma maters were/are doing! Take another example. The foundation of the IT sector somewhere in 2003-04 was laid on what grounds in India? Mere outsourcing/offshore, again especially for India, and by whom? Was this pattern even required? That’s why when H-1B issue came, the IT sector panicked! Because, you ended up making entire IT sector into a back office, support based; rather on the Application development side, and most of the revenue then got generated from outsourcing/offsore resources, rather doing novel things! That’s why you saw people standing in the queues for (please give a working VISA, please give me a degree from any university/institute, I would be the vernacular hero/heroine both in abroad & herein too). Worked?
No respect for novelty! No respect for originality! So how present is today now?
Till 2014, same thing happened in India as well, wherein several institutes like JNU, and I’ve no idea what different theories and inventions or great discoveries they were contributing too, yet, thought their Theories worked & were/are impeccable, which again, just alike in the present times Mr. Trump was handed over the power; that time, Mr. Modi won such war. Same reason.
Issue is now even today both sides are repeating the same mistake once again, busy marketing their Institutes in the same form, fashion & format, and absolutely in the same style; and its result would also be same then! Sorry!
Please understand! IVY League, Top Institutes across World produce only 5-10 percent of worthy contributions to the World (and I’m Not talking in terms of monetary Grants; I mean Worthy). The rest are what I’ve defined above, as they are not tailor made, but manufactured industrially!
Skill-based education was the only way forward, yet been diluted! Don’t waste time on kids and people spending 22 years doing ROTE learning. Further, sending your kids to the International Schools won’t make them International either. Neither you would become, my dear Parents! Nor you’ve any idea nor space to understand the international evolution!
Imagine, in 22 years, how much skills you would learn, instead coming out of the Institutes or Universities, no matter which IVY League or Institute, and still be useless in terms of evolution, until being subjected to the selfsame training modules, for the next 15 years, wherein you would be another Vice President in the closet, amongst thousands of such, replying, relying on the juniors to prepare yourself a simple template of statement of case for the presentations.
Think about it! Am I wrong?😊
© Pranav Chaturvedi 2025