[Well.. I wrote this piece around 3-4 months back, immediately after returning from class (but couldn't upload it then :( . I had this very strong feeling and hence thought of penning it down. Actually its realated to classes, and so vacations is not the correct time to upload this...but anyways...it's only in vacations that u have the time to think on such things so much...so...here you go....]
In a class of 40 students, not all think the same, but somehow I feel that I am headed on a lone path. When students disturb a class and the teacher gets so seriously annoyed that he walks out of the class, what are the students expected to do? I obviously expect different answers to this question and also expect that u give your opinions to me on this blog... But, here I would share with you what I feel on this issue.
This incident had occured in our class recently. I felt that those who were in the wrong should go to the professor and apologise (because I am sure that the situation was not that worse that the faculty would have taken any action against the students concerned). I don't know who were among the ones due to which he got annoyed (and that is also not the issue I wish to discuss here). What all I know is that a few students went to him to ask for an apology on behalf of the whole class and I was sad to find that they were being looked down upon by most of the students as doing the wrong by asking for an apology. (Here, I wish to make this clear that it is not that I have a soft corner towards this prof. I myself don't understand anything in his class and don't like the way he teaches. But still I don't think this is the way to react).
A lot of comments floated the air which was full of giggles and to my shock - a few laughters loud enough just to convey that we don't care.....
- Great yaar.....I hope this had happened earlier...
- He(professor) is seriouly overreacting. Doesn't he know how boring he is.
- Why the hell are these students going to him. They seriously have a habit of running after the profs.
- (and when told that sir might complain, this is what they opined-) He won't complain. He is too meek to do so.
Please tell me one thing : have the students of the class stopped thinking rationally or do they think they are doing a great favour by coming to class. Don't we think that we have over-inflated ourselver after coming to IIT.....just think once!!. The nothing can happen to us attitude and the only smart guy on earth is me kind of attitide I think has gone too far and it's high time we open our eyes, look around and start coming to ground again. .... Or am I being over-reactive by taking this small issue to heart? I really don't know.....
Please don't feel offended by these harsh lines that i have used.....I am not writing them for students other than me....I am very much a part and parcel of this same breed.....so they all include me too.....even I am very much at fault too..In fact you might have felt that since I am penning down such great words of wisdom, I should have been among those who had gone to ask for the apology . But I am sorry....neither am I a saint. I too am selfish to the account that I didn't go to him 'coz I thought that since it was not my fault, why should I ask for an apology. I don't know whether I was right or wrong .... but this is what I thought then.
Well...the question is not about me....but about 'us' as a whole.....Have we lost out our conscience? Have we lost the ability to judge what's right and and what's wrong. Did we ever act this way before coming to IIT...just think once... These are questions which need to be thought about. Do we realise that we have shifted from acting responsibly. If yes .... then what are we waiting for ...???
4 comments:
Baxi, in ur blog, u urself gave the answer.
i accept that we were wrong in that behavior but have u thought why student behave like that? somebody somehow comes into IIT system and become my professor, it is not enough for me to show respect for him. he may have a lot of knowledge but if he is unable to transfer that to students, he is not a teacher and students have no reason to tolerate them. i remember my 12th class teachers and i still respect them coz i m here because of them.
that day i was making some drawing in the class and was not a part of whole drama. i myself will not do the same but i know why students do this. will somebody tell those professors what does a professor mean.
First of all congrats sir, for three back to back great posts :)
And as for this, I too have something to say. I understand that since I wasn't the part or witness of it, I may have no right to comment. But I feel similar cases usually happen in almost every class.
So, are we spoiled after coming here? Ummm..yeah somehow more indiscipline than what we were at school. Have teachers gone worse too? Umm..again a yes (at least for some). But that doesn't prove or justifies our acts. Does it? But you can't just stir the minds of people like that. "Prof. ko chepta rahta hai," is what u'd get at max. :D
But how does it matter?
Yah, and one another thing. I also believe that people (including me) tend to do/ act/ say things with peers that they certainly wouldn't have said, if alone....for so called 'bond banane ke liye'. ;)
And Pushpak Sir, I do not completely agree with you.
I'm sure not every teacher was A+ back at school, and you'll have to admit we behaved well then. Why not now?
I have been to bansal classes... I have been taught by one of the best faculties of bansal... I expected much more and I think most of us have thought the same... But when we see these profs n hear about the different cases of the past... We get relax ourselves n think its not that hard to get marks in this subject... and in iit its all about grades n it is not important how u get it... n moral values... who the hell in todays world think about this... jo sochta hai usse dusre kehte hai "bhai kalyug hai"... either u change ur line or the people make u change it... and its life...
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