Students V/S Teachers

I have worked on this idea for a very long time to help us forge a bond between teachers and students and strengthen it. The reason is that students spend most of their time with teachers. It could be during tuitions, in school or college or in other places and this is how teachers play the most important role in our lives.

Before you scroll down, this blog post has:

1) A student’s view, stating problems against teachers.

2) The teacher’s opinion of the problem.

(This is not a blame game or an attempt to hurt any teacher’s feelings. It is just meant to present the problem that we never address.)

Dear teachers,

I attend classes only with the intention to learn some new concepts but as a science student, my world only revolves around physics, chemistry and biology which are never fun. So I always, keep me and my friend circle entertained which is not always liked by teachers. My entertainment includes, finding faults in everything, laughing out loud and making very creepy noises in the class and being the luckiest as I'm the tallest among all the students, I always get caught. This has my name highlighted in the black list on number one. Similarly, I have always been the kid sent to the corner to decrease havoc in the class. This zones me out of the learning atmosphere which kills my interest.

I fail to complete my homework, fail to soak concepts at the same moment and this somehow makes my professors lose hope on me. But the inner me, always pleads you to pay a little more attention over me, so that I work harder and not give up. But few top scorers steal my opportunity.

I often find mistakes in the guides, also notice teachers explaining wrongly or giving irrelevant examples but they hold a strong belief that the teacher can NEVER be wrong when objected. A teacher could be wrong in a concept or a suggestion as students are. That is totally fine. But the truth must be approved accepted that teachers can also be wrong, sometimes.

Not every chapter is interesting and as a result we students hold high expectations for you all to make it creative with a pinch of humor and bag full of examples, so that the concept interests us.

I’m sure our problems have solutions which lie in your hands.

-Student

A response by the teacher:

Dear students,

Teachers, like all of you, are not Gods, however much they feel like it, or pretend to be. We are fallible, we make mistakes, we are ignorant sometimes. Which is fine. The problem arises when we fail to a) see our mistakes b) acknowledge them c) work to correct, or minimize them.

For a student, who is taught by a teacher once in the day, during a certain lecture, or period, the lecture or teacher might be either boring or interesting, depending on her equation with the teacher, the subject, or her state of mind at the time. But a teacher, who has to teach the same subject/topic/experiment in a class of 120 students on an average, every day, and sometimes, every lecture, life becomes monotonous and sometimes intolerable. This kind of repetition induces boredom, but the teacher cannot afford to exhibit that. So when the teacher comes to class and meets un appreciative, unruly, in disciplined students, it requires all her self-control and considerable acting skills to teach for 40 minutes, and at the same time maintaining class discipline. At the end of the time, she is completely physically drained and mentally exhausted.

Teaching is a vocation. It is not a job. It is not enough to know the subject you teach. You need to LOVE the kids you teach, every one of them, and treat them IMPARTIALLY. The mischief-maker in class is probably crying out for your attention. The child who does poorly in class might be having a physical or mental inability to perform well, or is completely stressed out about something. A teacher has the Herculean task of being aware of everything and everyone in the class and must have the ability to read the faces of her pupils and come to the right conclusions.

A teacher also needs to be honest enough, and secure enough to admit that a) she has made a mistake, academic or otherwise b) that she doesn't know something, but she will find out and inform them later

Unfortunately, the mad scramble to finish the syllabus and the insistence in some academic institutions to subscribe to certain kinds or patterns of behaviour stresses out both students and teachers and do not let them interact naturally. The sheer numbers of students in a class also inhibit a more friendly approach to teaching and learning.

But in her own way, in spite of the limitations, a teacher can, and should make a difference to students' lives. Like everything in life, a lot of love and a little imposition of discipline goes a long way to make the life of both students and teachers easier.

Together, we can make a difference.

Have a wonderful day.

Suma Narayan

Author

Head, English Department, Junior College

Leaving the conclusion for the readers to make :) Good Luck!

They called it F.R.I.E.N.D.S

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Just a Vintage Soul..

The World is all about development but what did we develop from? This world has us, and we have a small world in this world and in this lovely small world, we have a soft heart for something. What soothes us the best, are vintage things. Development is the boon, but peace is at the start.

“Vintage means pre-loved”

Ever thought why do people get fascinated by the things existing from the past? Why does Bollywood re-launch the same old songs in the latest movies and these songs go hit? Why are the ‘current’ trends, actually the fashion from the 90’s?

The answer to this is, vintage was the jackpot, and vintage was the age of creative minds and the development was the medium for the jackpot to meet the crowd. That’s how development acts as the bridge for the people to meet the olden times.

Not everything that existed in the olden times was correct, but a bunch, handful of things was worth respect!

It holds the simple fact that our education system provides us stories of Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice as it holds the status, the firm over language, and the beauty of old English.

With an example, my few handpicked songs seem to have very deep meanings which are from the 90’s

1]   Dil deke dekho (1951)

Dil deke dekho,

Dil deke dekho ji,

Dil lene waalon dil dena Seekho ji

Which beautifully means:-

Learn to give your heart for people, and the ones who love to have others love you, learn to love back.

2)Dharam Karam (1975)

 Ek din bik jayega mati ke mol

Jag me rah jayege pyare tere bol

Which deeply means:-

There is going to be a day when you will be sold at a price of clay,

All that will stay, are the words you say!

In conclusion to this post, there would be less competition, less complicated things, easier and better ways of confessions, easy ways to get over differences, better loyalty, honesty, respect, and the fact that life is more than likes on Facebook and Instagram which would cause less of destructions.

We are very egoistic about our present, our development, too sour to believe that we could only develop on things that the people from the golden days started! So let’s not judge the people who still like to listen to old songs, which still have a collection of black and white photographs, the ones who still write a diary and the most important, those who value people more than leisure.

When I got cloned.

Recently I came across this new term called a ‘Fake profile’ where my ‘Facebook’ just got converted into ‘Fakebook’ and this experience was worth sharing. I bet on a nice laughter.

It was the end of the day when my phone rings with three miss calls which seemed urgent. I call back and all I get to hear is,

-Oh my God! Manav you know what?

-What?

-You have your fake account on Facebook.

-Did I become so famous?

(breaks me in between)

-With the exact same name. Shit. Manav, you got to do something now Go check. Please. Fast.

(Checks on Facebook and finds a very ‘unprofessionally’ copied account of mine with the same display picture and a shitty caption.)

(It was so fake that Barbie could be jealous of it!)

(Scrolls)

With a lovely post, a chinni picture of me dedicating my love in ‘English’ not recognised by Google.inc
I’ll show you my picture here.

But what happened behind the scenes was amazing.
So I sent this message saying, my account has been copied so please report the fake one, instead, I get laughing emoji all over my chats.

So after lots of request and people calming over the stupid post, it got deleted but.

My friends then took the report button too seriously and, instead of just reporting that account also reported my original account.

My pyaara original account.

And this was out of the world.

(one of my friend actually did this)

P.E.A.C.E

(And he is the one, who liked this picture first)

AARGH,Tall people problems.

A lovely day just brings out people! People, as we term them in foreign countries. In India, crowd. So I was generally walking on the streets where this tiny little dwarf walks up to me saying, “Oh my God! You are so tall!”, like I didn’t know. Like what would I do if you never told me this! GOD! Thank you so much, you tiny woman, get some water.

Being tall isn’t as amazing as it looks like. On a large scale, what tall people hate the most, are short people.

What next could a ‘tall’ person hate was others asking the height and then standing by them, measuring where they could reach!

Like any of these activities would never stimulate growth, lengthwise but still, we live in a world of cliché.

This blog will make you happy, as it will show you disadvantages of being tall.

P.S it is no fun to be tall.

1.    You are never comfortable, LEG SPACE.

2.    Hugs are very awkward, and side hugs.

3.    Everyone hates being behind you.

4.    People think it’s socially and morally correct to climb over your back, ANYTIME.

5.    You’ll never be able to see your face in the mirror.

6.    You are a victim to headaches.

7.    Group pictures can be weird because of you.

8.    You always are forced to reach for things.

9.    You mould to get into pictures.

10.    You have to fold your sleeves as you GROW.

11.    People usually get to a high level to match up with you.

12.    You are easily spotted in the crowd.

13.    And that’s how you sleep usually.

14.    You are unfortunately the selfie stick

15.    You can write on the top line of the board

So concluding with, I’m 6’3’’ you can hype over it and be like all impressed, but you would never know the pain this side! Hah, I get a good view over concerts and find my pals faster than you can in the crowd, so crib, YOU!

 Peace out! 😵😎