Regrettably, when you look back today you wonder why we are so far behind in the world of science and technology, If West Cameroon had not made the mistake of going into a union with East Cameroon, I believe SHE would have been on a similar pedestal with India and the rest of the English speaking former colonial countries. Institutions like Sacred Heart, Sasse, Bali, Okoyong, GTC Ombe, CCAST etc were producing top class students who were capable of competing with their counterparts from India, Malaysia, Hong Kong in science and technology. Unfortunately, while the leaders of these English speaking colonial countries were busy laying the foundation work for a technology society of the future, our French Negroes were only interested in Administrative institutions like ENAM , IRIC and the accumulation of personal wealth...As a result, we have, today in Cameroon, Bendsikin operators with Bachelor Degrees!!!
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Sanjena Sathian
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Today's Silicon Valley is where those who revere science and technology find their heroes. But while a huge percentage of those powering — and occasionally at the helm of — the tech revolution in the Bay Area are graduates of MIT, the University of Illinois, Canada's Waterloo and Stanford, some of the most entrepreneurial and high-tech-trained engineers and coders are graduates of the highly selective Indian Institutes of Technology. In 2014, with India alongside China on the tips of everyone's tongue as a hotbed of innovation, the ascendance of the IIT campuses could appear like a historic inevitability. But pause to consider how improbable it is that a nation with fewer than seven decades of ...
"It shall be the duty of every citizen of India … to develop the scientific temper …Constitution of India
The explanation? It begins with the proclivities of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, a science geek himself. A graduate of England's Harrow School and the elite natural sciences program at Cambridge, Nehru majored in chemistry, geology and botany 40 years before his election in 1952. More importantly, perhaps, Nehru was a belated student of the Enlightenment — and like so many revolutionaries, he sought to infuse his revolt with the language of rationality. The new Indian Constitution, which he helped draft, would later read: "It shall be the duty of every citizen of India … to develop the scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform."
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