Over a conversation... um mm no not actually a conversation, actually online chat with one of my friends of school days, we were discussing about how two of our batch mates were labelled as Heroes of the class by our respected teachers..they were no doubt the highest grade scorers and so teacher's favorite, and six of us were tagged as the impish goons...
Reminiscing past always bring back many memories,both sweet and sour , this one is mixed: the result for 12th boards was out and the news came roaring that I scored the third highest percentage in the class..and no marks for guessing, yes the first two were the Heroes. On my way to collect my result we all met one of our Teacher, who taught us Accountancy(I hardly attended his class ever)....he congratulated everyone for their results and when he got to know mine..he laughed and said, "you must have been visiting many temples for this result"...
I was aghast to hear such remark from a teacher...but i managed to utter some words and they were," No Sir, actually i found a better teacher of Accounts and so the result is dedicated to her- My sister". Then it was his turn to stare in surprise.
After all these years, thanks to social networking sites, we could reach each other once again, and so the discussion was around how the two Heroes could not do much in life(in terms of career) and three of us(out of the group of six) have managed to do pretty well. Nope, the idea is not to sing praises for ourselves for capitalizing opportunities, but how our Teachers actually restricts our growth by trying to predict our future......
There are already some successful films like 3 idiots on the same subject, but then again when will we actually raise a toast to new education system..where we are not judged by our grades but our talents......
When will we leave our children to decide their choice of career, where their talent and interest select the streams(Science, commerce and Arts) and not Ours.........when will teenagers stop singing this song in anguish and pure despair....
Give me some sunshine, give me some rains,
give me another chance i want to grow up once again.........
Hope the Sun will shine brighter and the rains will be more....but one chance they get(to grow up) they prosper and bloom.....
Reminiscing past always bring back many memories,both sweet and sour , this one is mixed: the result for 12th boards was out and the news came roaring that I scored the third highest percentage in the class..and no marks for guessing, yes the first two were the Heroes. On my way to collect my result we all met one of our Teacher, who taught us Accountancy(I hardly attended his class ever)....he congratulated everyone for their results and when he got to know mine..he laughed and said, "you must have been visiting many temples for this result"...
I was aghast to hear such remark from a teacher...but i managed to utter some words and they were," No Sir, actually i found a better teacher of Accounts and so the result is dedicated to her- My sister". Then it was his turn to stare in surprise.
After all these years, thanks to social networking sites, we could reach each other once again, and so the discussion was around how the two Heroes could not do much in life(in terms of career) and three of us(out of the group of six) have managed to do pretty well. Nope, the idea is not to sing praises for ourselves for capitalizing opportunities, but how our Teachers actually restricts our growth by trying to predict our future......
There are already some successful films like 3 idiots on the same subject, but then again when will we actually raise a toast to new education system..where we are not judged by our grades but our talents......
When will we leave our children to decide their choice of career, where their talent and interest select the streams(Science, commerce and Arts) and not Ours.........when will teenagers stop singing this song in anguish and pure despair....
Give me some sunshine, give me some rains,
give me another chance i want to grow up once again.........
Hope the Sun will shine brighter and the rains will be more....but one chance they get(to grow up) they prosper and bloom.....
Me being a student can vouch that all u have written is true! Indeed all the students liked 3 idiots because it was in commonality with all of us. I sometimes wonder why the teachers form their own stereotypical opinions about the kids. The change has to be borne in the education system as well as the norms and guidelines that the teachers should follow being a teacher. They should be taught that the kids are not born with all the good qualities and intelligence, they have to be taught and that's what the teachers have to do!
ReplyDeleteA plea to teachers to stop their favoritism, however I do cum in their good books...:P
Well played with words! :)
Very well hitting the nostalgia ...
ReplyDeleteI will return when i get over that and come back to present!
Keep writing!!
Very well said... even I agree and keep telling the kids who starve to get into IITs/IIMs/score 99 percentile without even thinking what career they want.
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