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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Idiotic?

Recently, a professor gave us an assignment to build working models of Gears, Crankshafts, etc. using mount board. Quite practical right? But almost everyone was cursing the prof on the grounds that it was a pretty lame thing to do and why do we need to make things like this when we know how they work and all. Moreover, when in the class, we realized (although wrongly, but that's not the point) that these working models will not be graded and need not even be submitted, the first reaction was why did we do it then?

This and the 3 Idiots slamming the education system have made me think whether we do things only for grades? And if this tendency led to the fact that things were made compulsory at schools and colleges or is it that because the system is faulty, we have become accustomed to work only for grades. Looks like a vicious circle to me.

7 comments:

Bilal Shaikh said...

i agree.....
ironic yet the truth...i hope amarnath does actually grade other assignments that he gives.

onshui said...

oh amarnath sir! :) it has an ulterior motive. do it - you'll enjoy yourself more than anything :)

Ankur said...

@bilal..u just confirmed the point i made

@onshui..'ulterior'..GRE Effect :P

Nupur said...

kar lo yaar.. it's just cutting n sticking i suppose ;) like craft from good ole school days.. and they never graded that very seriously! besides, me is sure he has some 'ulterior motive' too!

Ankur said...

Doing or not isnt the question. For the record, it has already been submitted.

Point not driven home...sigh

Nandan Sawant said...

Instructors can't ask us to wash their clothes just because they give us grades.

Other day, one prof was deriving some random and unnecessary formulae in the class, i asked person next to me, why is he doing so. Guy replies concentrate, because he'll ask those formulae in the exam. Common, we are not slaves!

anubhav said...

I agree with Nupur, same as SUPW(the old school craftwork thing)... I thought the n engineering we were only supposed to work with machines, but Amarnath proved me wrong.. :P

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