Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Vidur Kapur speaks on Education




Kapur, Vidur. "Indian Comedian Stand Up Comedy US vs India."Live in Bangalore". Youtube. 1.27.07. 3.31.09.

This clip is a segment of Vidur Kapur stand-up performance live in Bangalore, India. Kapur compares schools in India compared to schools in the United States. He discusses how schools in the US are more lenient in their teaching as opposed to the strictness of schools in India. Themes of the segment include academic discipline, educational systems, and positive reinforcement approaches to teaching. Kapur talks about how “dumb” students would be treated in both Indian and American school systems. In American schools students would be praised for their creativity, even if their answers to a question were not right, whereas in Indian culture students would be reprimanded for wrong answers.

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