So the exams are over now....but somehow after exams a feeling of lethargy have engulfed me....maybe because of the amount of stress that I'd to go thru during my exams,thats why the body wants some rest.....
Now our 2nd year classes have begun(lets hope I'd pass!)...though not in the full force...so we friends are getting ample time to sit and discuss about stuffs,not always about serious stuffs ...gossips and PNPC are also included ...along with some "Keora Dancing.....".Something that we fiends had been discussing today was the topic of "real you"....no we were not going into any spiritual discussions as such...but we've seen one thing that there are certain conditions that reveal the 'true you'.Often we take people or assess people as we see them offhand...but there are some conditions...specially the trying ones...which reveal the true personality of those individuals.So it might so happen that a person who seemed like an empathetic,sophisticated and responsible citizen ...when faced with the realistic or practical situation turn out into a self centered one.
Today in our class our Prof Arup Ghoshal told us all about giving and receiving respect.He narrated us a story of George Washington where he and his son had went out for a walk.A black person saw them and greeted them by raising his hat.But George Washington's son just turned his face and continued his walk.Seeing this George Washington told his son that,"Son by ignoring the greetings you degraded yourself more...this showed that you cannot take greetings or respect by others."So the moral of the story is that you've to learn not only to earn respect but also you've to learn to accept it graciously.
Todays class in a way reflected the same universal thing...it is easier to teach moral lessons to children or anybody as such through story telling - the art that is getting extinct these days.I mean during my childhood days I used to get indirect lessons of life by listening to stories told by my Didima or Ma.In those days,they didnt seem like moral lessons...but as we grew up and tried to recollect those moments...those so called childhood stories of "biral ma...n ...siyaler golpo..."etc dawned in from of us in a new light!Or somehow these stories imbibed their moral values indirectly into us.....whatever that was ...but it was a good method of teaching.
The Problem today is that today the method seems little wayward.....the children are trained in such a way that they learn to mug up loads of information without even knowing its meaning or value....n somehow even we generation are not totally free from this influence too!So whats the solution....to follow the open classroom method of teaching advocated thoroughly by Rabindranath Tagore or the conventional Classroom teaching......whatever it might be ...the ultimate goal should be self development.
