Witnessed the "Meet the Candidates" today...
Kind of Nostalgia, remembered the blind excitement and emotional atyachars happened long ago, it feels good to be a silent witness all the time, though that will leave us many questions unanswered...
And I always wanted to ask, its about Revolution?, If yes, against whom?- Teachers, opponent party members??...And they say its against Capitalism, against exploitation??...haha...its about recreating the class struggles in an ordinary engineering college, the bloody revolutions of Bolivia in the thick rubber forests of RIT....Its about forgetting and recreating the context...Its study and struggle, yeah- its a struggle, but shouldn't be for power, for monopoly- but for excellence, not only academic, but for every single venture.
Still I know it happens, like the way it happened all these years, like the claps I gave 10 years back...Because its the celebration of youth, its the uncontrollable young energy flowing- dont know always for good...
All the best; and congrats for showing courage to face the crowd...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
Class
Another day- the first day of regular classes.
And again,next surprise!.. a class of 40 empty seats...
And I wonder, why should I even bother to bother, being an ordinary teacher in an ordinary engineering college, be the mediocre and expect mediocrity
Forget the extraordinary, forget the best, forget passion- expect passmarks- and you will be happy, forever...
Another day- the first day of regular classes.
And again,next surprise!.. a class of 40 empty seats...
And I wonder, why should I even bother to bother, being an ordinary teacher in an ordinary engineering college, be the mediocre and expect mediocrity
Forget the extraordinary, forget the best, forget passion- expect passmarks- and you will be happy, forever...
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Self-Realizations
One year of teaching! and it has been more and more questions than answers for an year!! But on 15th Jan, just before turning one year "old" as a teacher, suddenly the answer came- that too from one of the kids I thought on the first day an year before..., great realizations- of bitter truths!!
And the question can be roughly translated like this- "When I joined the course I dreamed of becoming a great architect making lot of money, but after three years I realized its better to be a teacher in an ordinary government engineering college as I will be getting .....(a lot of amount-which I feel ashamed to state ..:)) irrespective of me working or not"
Wow!! This is it- this is why I left my family,life, freedom, a rather better paid job- to teach them to make great architects,so that they can earn a lot!! And I thought about it again and again , and suddenly realized its just another questions answered quite late... Being a black sheep of my own class, I too made such a bitter statement, though one of my professors reacted in a rather "ugly" way- and now the role reversal happened!! So dear kid, no one need to answer you, because there comes a time when your role will be reversed and all your questions will be answered.
Because at the end, life wont keep any questions unanswered!
One year of teaching! and it has been more and more questions than answers for an year!! But on 15th Jan, just before turning one year "old" as a teacher, suddenly the answer came- that too from one of the kids I thought on the first day an year before..., great realizations- of bitter truths!!
And the question can be roughly translated like this- "When I joined the course I dreamed of becoming a great architect making lot of money, but after three years I realized its better to be a teacher in an ordinary government engineering college as I will be getting .....(a lot of amount-which I feel ashamed to state ..:)) irrespective of me working or not"
Wow!! This is it- this is why I left my family,life, freedom, a rather better paid job- to teach them to make great architects,so that they can earn a lot!! And I thought about it again and again , and suddenly realized its just another questions answered quite late... Being a black sheep of my own class, I too made such a bitter statement, though one of my professors reacted in a rather "ugly" way- and now the role reversal happened!! So dear kid, no one need to answer you, because there comes a time when your role will be reversed and all your questions will be answered.
Because at the end, life wont keep any questions unanswered!
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