Field notes, v1753
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Stebbins, R. 1963 Asian Trip New Delhi 58 Jan. 16 a little better. Stress tends to be on rote memory. Little testing of ability to think and to learn logically. Institute has been forced into selecting films that help in the exams, however, outside films are often general. Tal. said there are 3 basic problems that face those who would upgrade education: (1) There is a gap between what is being taught and what is being practiced by the student after he leaves school. Until recently there was nothing for a student to do in science later on - most of those trained in science ended up doing administrative work, civil engineering, etc. On the technical side, for example, and engineer might become merely a person who handled foreign equipment - sending it back to the country of origin for repairs, reinstalling it in its return. He really was nothing but an administrator. (2) There is the great impediment of the External Examination. To improve laboratory science this must be changed. (3) Extension service training, like that supervised by Dr. Mason will be important. It is the job of the extension service to see that the training of the student will be such as to equip him for what he will do