Setting an example
During a recent visit to Bangalore, I had the opportunity to meet the
head of the department at the college where my son is studying.
I was expecting a senior man with a firm face and no smile. As the
attendant took me to his office, I was pleasantly surprised. There sits in that
responsible seat a man in the early forties, who greeted me with a welcome
smile.
Talking to me about the student behaviour, he narrated an example. He
quoted to me the sadhya, i.e. the traditional feast we have.
He said, “Education is like the rice in the sadhya served along with
numerous other items like pickle and curries.”
One cannot fill his stomach by consuming the pickle or curries. He has
to have rice to satisfy his hunger and be happy. Education is just like that. A
student in a professional college should take it seriously and consider it the
most important phase in his life till he passes out in the first attempt.
Other activities like partying etc. should be given a secondary spot in
his daily life. Only then will he be able to enjoy life. Once he passes out
with a good score and secures employment with a decent pay package, all the fun
activities will follow suit.
If he ignored education, he will face enormous difficulties.
I was impressed by his attentiveness to minute details of each of his
students, from first year to final year, in his department.
Having studied in the same college, worked outside and returning to the
same college to head the Mechanical Engineering department, Prof. Ravishankar
showed a complete belongingness of the institution.
Educationists like him are an asset to the community.
Ramesh Menon
To read it in original, please visit, Short Take, Gulf Today Dt 20 September 2014
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