@amodm But how will Kreyszig's Engineering Mathematics or David J. Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics help me in building the next SaaS unicorn :P

@pHequals7 If you've not found the techniques of Engineering Mathematics useful till now, I'd ask you to consider if you're really doing engineering :P I find it deeply relevant to my work.

@amodm Don't think Indian colleges prepare you for that anyway. Speaking from my personal experience and chats with others. Though seperately, I think signalling effect of college is too strong for it to be compelling for most to skip

@romitme My pt wasn't as much to claim colleges don't need fixing, but to say that technical education requires discipline that must one must evaluate themselves on before making a significant decision. (assuming that's the reason to skip)

@amodm Is college however most efficient and only way to complete rigorous concepts? What % of college going kids do you think deeply complete rigorous tech books, outside the bubble of top 1% colleges?

@asxna There are many layers to these questions, which I feel is best covered in an interactive talk instead of a Twitter thread. We can discuss these when I'm conversing with you guys next. You can be as grilling as you wish to be :)

@amodm While I agree with what you said, many tier 3 engineering colleges have a really low standard of teaching those subjects. Better to make a habit of self-studying through books, with some NPTEL courses to compensate for lectures.

@TejasPaliya Indeed. Fully in agreement.

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@OBanerji Read it in the morning email, Olina. The write up is mostly about MBA, but OP is about technical colleges, which I don't consider an MBA to be :) Loved the splintered signal pt in your write up though.

@amodm Not sure if most people at the end of college actually developes that capacity. A curious enough individual can definitely develop a habit of reading through such book(or relevant resources) without spending 4 year in college.

@__ramki I agree with you. No substitute for self study. However, there are still some nuances to this. I'll be discussing these tonight, join in if you'd to participate:

@amodm Maybe I'm wrong but my experience has been that you can coast through most colleges in India without going through a rigorous technical textbook. Grok some concepts, get some class notes and you're in the top quartile.

@amodm The kind of gyan I see on Twitter, I would have quit the graduation. Sometimes even people who didn't even passed school are saying college is waste.

@amodm People have been misguiding students to leave their college tellin waste of time, but the reason is those people who are advising to do so were unable to get the best out of their college. A good college change the graph of your life in a good manner. College teaches u so much

@amodm Skipping college because it’s trendy/ cool is not the right way to go for sure. Doing things for a reason unique to you makes the real difference. Applies to most things we do in life.

@amodm People discard Education/talk about dropout looking cool but the Technology is itself based on Academic Foundations. If you check history ,Internet was developed for/by researchers/military applications not Influencers. For e.g The base of web3 is hardcore Maths not NFT's.

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@amodm You really think attending colleges really complete those books? Everyone just studies notes and parts of the books to qualify the tests. Or just take a friend's help to learn and understand the concept to pass the tests.

@amodm if only college profs told us this..