Education System in India needs a revamp!
@kartik-vyas-FTNaHZ
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Oct 22, 2025
Oct 22, 2025
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A lot has been said but nothing much has been done about this topic. I know this is not one of those interesting topics on which anyone and everyone has to have an opinion but I think most of us here at CE should care about it.
I for one always wanted to be an outstanding (standing out of the class) student but couldnot because of the attendance norm. So I used to while away significant amount of my time in the classroom in writing silly poetry (I may publish it on CE someday on popular demand 😛 ) or just scribbling some messages for my friend at the back of the notebook. The only thing I was concerned about was time. I used to wait eagerly for the class to get over. I used to feel real sense of achievement on answering the roll call. The relief of having gone through another hour of monologue without getting caught for not being attentive was huge. And I was endowed with enough of such chances throughout my engineering years. I must say that this was the case with only a few professors... we had some great teachers as well!
Agreed that I was an irresponsible student (although my marksheets never reflected the same) who didn't deserve to be in the class, who did not use the opportunity to learn in the best possible way and all other such argurments. But isn't it the teachers duty as well to keep the students interested? Why should the students who (or whose parents) cough up huge sums (read 50,000 +) as tution fees every year be compulsarily made to attend a stipulated amount of lectures? As an adult do the students don't have that much sense of responsibility? Isn't there a basic flaw in our mode of instruction?? I would like at least some of you to share your views on this. I have a lot more to say but I guess after having made such scathing remarks on monologuous lectures I shouldn't make this post the same.
I for one always wanted to be an outstanding (standing out of the class) student but couldnot because of the attendance norm. So I used to while away significant amount of my time in the classroom in writing silly poetry (I may publish it on CE someday on popular demand 😛 ) or just scribbling some messages for my friend at the back of the notebook. The only thing I was concerned about was time. I used to wait eagerly for the class to get over. I used to feel real sense of achievement on answering the roll call. The relief of having gone through another hour of monologue without getting caught for not being attentive was huge. And I was endowed with enough of such chances throughout my engineering years. I must say that this was the case with only a few professors... we had some great teachers as well!
Agreed that I was an irresponsible student (although my marksheets never reflected the same) who didn't deserve to be in the class, who did not use the opportunity to learn in the best possible way and all other such argurments. But isn't it the teachers duty as well to keep the students interested? Why should the students who (or whose parents) cough up huge sums (read 50,000 +) as tution fees every year be compulsarily made to attend a stipulated amount of lectures? As an adult do the students don't have that much sense of responsibility? Isn't there a basic flaw in our mode of instruction?? I would like at least some of you to share your views on this. I have a lot more to say but I guess after having made such scathing remarks on monologuous lectures I shouldn't make this post the same.
