Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Here is a passionate txt I wrote and left in my hard disk, and recovered today thanks to Google Desktop, that indexes all content. Ironically this should be coded, because Sir taught us File Structures.


When I said I would like to councel the students [Referring to a proposition I made], I just wanted to bridge the gap between students and teachers starting from you. Let me elaborate:
Autonomy dawned, and you made a valiant effort to change the system of rot, but now that you've planned to relinquish the same responsibilites, and
soon there will be no hope left.
Your efforts to maintain the sanctity of the teaching proffession and your firm belief in strict discipline are regarded
as "egoistic attitude", "eccentricity", "complete disrespect" by the students.
Students need to look beyond this, and see the real effort you've put in to bring order to this pandemonium of a system.
Also, for instance, I beleive that you shouldn't have scrutinized the choice of bussiness plans by the students much,
instead you should have just told them, develop a bussiness plan, completely based on their passion, no matter what.
This would automatically give them a huge incentive to work, and anyway you're mission was to make them see the world of bussiness, especially its failures,
and what better way than to do it under the illusion of their passion.
Regarded as the "head fake" by Randy Pauch, where students are sent to learn, say, "to play cricket", but without knowing,
return learning about "sportmanship, team play, leadership" similarly you could have done that in bussiness.
The even greater problem is that I have seen the other teachers taking the students side and feeling justified
with things such as "feeling lost", "not having a road map" for the subjects you are teaching.
All is lost, even if the teaching staff and administration start taking sides.

Yes it is true you have abstained giving a concrete road map a lot of times, which was supplied to us, since our birth, and we now we seem to deem it as our birthright;
From the very little numericals we did in school (that already had data in them, and we never had to look anywhere to find them),
to the process of even writing exams in engineering.
Perhaps you could have told everyone at the start, that there will be no roadmap (be it filestructures, information systems),
because this is your objective... an inspiring line from your blog: "to raise programming to the level of art,
it is necessary that we encourage learners to solve problems on their own rather than forcing them to apply known solutions."
These bother me a lot, for its killing the only teacher, who opened my eyes into the world for each subject you taught,
and you, taught a rebellious student like me to respect teachers and their proffession.








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