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The Power of Ideas and the Modern University

Pervez Hoodbhoy September 11, 2007

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#17 Posted by masadi on September 12, 2007 11:49:10 am
Gill writes "Some Pakistani scientists (including Prof. Hoodbhoy) should take the initiative to write articles highlighting the contributions of the contemporary scientists. "

He does write articles, two dozen at a time like you do but just like your pieces of nonsense that are tape recorderesque, parrot, rote-thinking, summarizing books type, of articles, these don't have any original thought or workable solutions. Now atleast he has "better" things to do, i.e. sitting at his desk and misinforming students about Islam and science, than you do, so why don't you shut-up and let him do his nonsense as you do yours on here...
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#18 Posted by chaltahai on September 12, 2007 1:02:31 pm
Masadi writes: "my bathroom cleaning days were left behind in the USA"

Yaar cleaning bathrooms of US elite has certainly made you into a sourpuss. Tell ya what..come over..you can clean my bathroom.

I have read your articles and I find them amateurish and replete with questions rather than answers. While you stew in your derision of the US elite, the rest of the world is copying its ways and moving ahead.
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#19 Posted by tahmed32 on September 12, 2007 2:14:38 pm
laddu: dont embarass me by writing a nice response to a post that was meant to be nasty. :-(
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#20 Posted by tahmed32 on September 12, 2007 2:17:20 pm
#18 chaltahai to masadi: While you stew in your derision of the US elite, the rest of the world is copying its ways and moving ahead.

Words of wisdom. But alas, while a word is enough for the wise - with fools, the gods themselves struggle in vain.
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#21 Posted by tahmed32 on September 12, 2007 2:18:04 pm
#16 masadi: what is this mumbo-jumbo??
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#22 Posted by MantoLives on September 12, 2007 2:40:07 pm
Tahmed,

It is a repetition of the same old garbage which doesn't stand the test of history... but Masadi keeps repeating it like a broken record.

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#23 Posted by MantoLives on September 12, 2007 2:41:46 pm
PS: And coming as it is from someone like me who is a great broken record in my own right... it says a lot about the great self styled "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto", "Noam Chomsky" and "Howard Zinn" of Pakistan.

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#24 Posted by tahmed32 on September 12, 2007 3:42:31 pm
#23 Mantolives: We are all broken records here on chowk. :-)
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#25 Posted by tahmed32 on September 12, 2007 3:50:51 pm
Why cant our potato-head mard-e-momin, our royal daughter of the east, and above all our unelected, overclever "president" say this?

Prime Minister of Japan to Step Down
...Mr. Abe acknowledged that he had lost the public’s trust and said that he hoped a new leader would be better able to carry out his policies..

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/world/asia/12cnd-japan.html?_r=1 &hp&oref=slogin
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#26 Posted by ahmedmadani on September 12, 2007 7:58:51 pm
What Masadi saying is totally right. Just cramming and memorizing does not do good. As he suggested thinking snd analysing is more important than just copying old stuff and assuimg right as it is written Holi Roman script. Arjun and Manto just copy and paste 80% stuff and feel if you copy and paste some thing is proven, its nothing proven. A donkey can eat all books it no use.
Masadi's emphesis on thinking is more important than tradition study or book keeping and memorising , I completely support thinking learning then chaeting and copying in exams.
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#27 Posted by ahmedmadani on September 12, 2007 7:58:57 pm
What Masadi saying is totally right. Just cramming and memorizing does not do good. As he suggested thinking snd analysing is more important than just copying old stuff and assuimg right as it is written Holi Roman script. Arjun and Manto just copy and paste 80% stuff and feel if you copy and paste some thing is proven, its nothing proven. A donkey can eat all books it no use.
Masadi's emphesis on thinking is more important than tradition study or book keeping and memorising , I completely support thinking learning then chaeting and copying in exams.
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#28 Posted by jayp on September 13, 2007 1:28:55 am
tahmed,

You should like my creativity in adapting a well known poem to suit the pak reality.

That could as well could have been the jinnah version of teh tagore poem, sorry he did not write anything, only ex-tempo speeches, and the entire ilks of YLH are hanging by two lines of that speech.

Time to accept reality, say aloud what pakistan is and hold your head in shame. No other option for pakistanis, poor ones, they cannot even come to their own country.
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#29 Posted by tahmed32 on September 13, 2007 2:05:59 am
jayp: so you think you are creative - after repeating the same one line ("Pakistan is a failure") for 10 years, the only difference between you and the inmates of insane asylums is that the latter get their faces washed in the morning.
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#30 Posted by jayp on September 13, 2007 2:48:41 am
tahmed,

Enjoy the parody of a famous poem, and reflect on its appropriateness for pakistan of today
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#31 Posted by okhla99 on September 13, 2007 6:54:56 am
Masadi #14



lol...


Bukkwaas mat kar.
Dum hai toh aur photo dikhaa.
Nahin toh chupp kar kay baith jaa.
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#32 Posted by okhla99 on September 13, 2007 6:57:08 am
Masadi #14

You say " I am not "bearded", and as far as looks go, I look more like your Western "gods" than the MAJ did"

lol...


Bukkwaas mat kar.
Dum hai toh aur photo dikhaa.
Nahin toh chupp kar kay baith jaa.
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