[Assam] Wow! Look at This

[umesh sharma]

Dilip-da,

I was just praising his multi-lingual skills ( I hope he was not pulling the wool over our eyes - I do not know Japanese, Arabic, German, French, Italian to judge whether he really knew those languages). Last week I was viewing a video lecture by Harvard professor Reimers of global education - he praised Longfellow the poet - that he could speak 17 languages.  Longfellow was a grown man, I visited his house (mansion) right next to Harvard campus - walked past it daily to go home.  What Longfellow did was amazing (even with all his wealth and education), thus, what this kid (and many like him - I have seen many tourist guides in Jaipur - from the rickshaw wallah to the elephant-ride man to even some beggars - who speak to these foreign tourists in tongues I have no idea of.

Harvard is the gold standard nowadays (atleast since World War2) for the world- perhaps you would like the kid to become a government school teacher in rural India - or consider him good enough only for that.


Umesh Sharma



Washington D.C. 



1-202-215-4328 [Cell]



Ed.M. - International Education Policy

Harvard Graduate School of Education,

Harvard University,

Class of 2005



http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)



http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)









www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )

http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/







http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/

--- On Fri, 20/2/09, Dilip and Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Dilip and Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Assam] Wow!  Look at This
To: umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu, "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" <assam at assamnet.org>
Date: Friday, 20 February, 2009, 11:14 PM

Umesh,
Why a Harvard professor?
Do the Harvard professors have to be multilingual to sell their goods? Are
they?
This kid learnt the rudiments of a language like a parrot to hawk his stuff.. It
is admirable that he is doing what he needs to do to make a living. That is
basic to the instincts of survival, similar to SMD.
Why do you link everthing to Harvard? Harvard is just another university in the
USA.
Dilipda




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From: umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world
<assam at assamnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:57:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Wow! Look at This

The kid should be a Harvard professor!!

Umesh Sharma



Washington D.C. 



1-202-215-4328 [Cell]



Ed.M. - International Education Policy

Harvard Graduate School of Education,

Harvard University,

Class of 2005



http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)



http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)









www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )

http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/







http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/

--- On Thu, 19/2/09, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
Subject: [Assam] Wow!  Look at This
To: assam at assamnet.org
Date: Thursday, 19 February, 2009, 4:30 PM

http://www.currybear.com/wordpress/?p=2316#comments

Amazing kid!

cm

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