The teacher came to me and made me leave the class immediately. Actually I was sleeping in her class. She didn’t even ask once whether I was well or not. This made me think over the changes we face from the school to the college.
In school, the teachers used to be concerned about the students. They shared a great bond with the students. Then ahy does that bond is no more there in the college? The teachers don’t even know the names of the students. People say that it’s because the number of students is larger in the college.
Well… I don’t really agree. I’ve seen schools with larger strength than a college. If college environment is all about being self- centered and not being concerned about people around you, than its better to live in the school environment only. They say they’re preparing us for the real world. Does that mean, that we’ve to become selfish to face the real world.?
A good relationship between the teachers and students is good for everyone. Then students will attend the lectures with interest and not just for the attendance.
Being friendly with the students helps teachers to know them as individuals and not as mere roll numbers. Students also develop respect for their teachers. The respect which comes directly from the heart and is not just to get some good grades. But any day, it’s a two-way process.
Then, hopefully some day the “guru-shishya” relationship will again be as has been depicted in the following lines:
Guru-Gobind dohu khade, kaake lagoon paay!
Balihari Guru aapne Gobind diyo bataay!!
While it is true that teachers in college usually don't share the kind of intimacy with students that schoolteachers did, school life wasn't much better...it had its own share of favouritism(not to say nepotism)which was even more annoying.
ReplyDeleteI would, any day, prefer the universal indifference shown by college teachers to the discriminating treatment that schoolteachers dished out so often.
TRUE ! ! !
ReplyDeleteVery true.
But we can't consider every teacher to be the same. If there are the bad ones out there, the good ones also exist.
And yes. It was wrong on the teacher's part, the way she reacted. But I would say this is just the beginning, don't develop a feeling of hatred for her right away.
di..i agree with you. but in school i had the favouritism on my side so i had no such problem.;) actually the thing which bothered me more was the indifferent beahviour of teachers in the college. they are not at all bothered about students.
ReplyDeletevarun..she is my favourite taecher in the college. nothing against her. and dont worry i haven't developed a feeling of hatred for her. it's just that i have seen in the college, the teachers are not at all bothered about students. i did not like this attitude of theirs. being a little friendly with the students won't harm them much!!
ReplyDeleteEven i had the favouritism in my favour, but here i'm emphathising with those on the other side of the fence, and being objective.
ReplyDeleteI guess its eventually about personal choice,i like teachers who just do their job of teaching and then mind their own business...i loathe excessive bonding as it contains the seeds of favouritism...dont like teachers poking their nose into my personal affairs, if they are unrelated to academics.