Gopalakrishnan you started a very good discusion here. Unfortunately there are no easy answers. First off, I could like to share some one that I actually remember from college. In one of those require liberal arts classes that I has no choice in taking, the profession educated us on what the purpose of colleges and univiversities are for. Colleges and universities exist for one reason, research. If you want to learn a trade that is what technical schools are for. When I heard this I was a bit shocked and tried to understand what I was paying $15,000 a year for then.

The root of the issue is two fold. I can't speak for the world, but in the USA we have generation of young people that don't care about learning and only want to play video game and do-what-they-want-to-do, screw everyone else. You also have professors that are at a college or university to do research and are required to teach classes to help the school pay the bills. They did not get an education to teach people. Now obviously there are really good professors and really good students, but the mojority of people settle for average leading to where we are today.

To aswer the question of how to help or not help a newbie post'er. Let me suggest this. If the post'er is obviously trying to have some one do the work for them. One post says that this is forum to help YOU find the answer, not for us to give it to you. If you need more information, one post asking for it is enough. We don't need 5-6 people going off on a tyraid about this post'er isn't doing this or that.

I think that this will make everyones experience here better.


Matt