Attachments are Attachments ar I happened to see this photograph of Rahul Dravid and why he declined the honour given to him, I was really surprised. Only then did I read his statement that his mother was 55 when she got her doctorate and it took seven long years for his wife to get a degree. This was the thought of a young energetic man who could easily take all the honours conferred upon him. These are the days of fast food ...... And fast degrees that could match up to a person's changing statuses. But it does make a great difference in one's approach in professional life, especially in the teaching career. The same danger that fast food does is done by fast ...
These days we often come across this question. Many a times its shocking to hear the standards assigned by teachers in general regarding students. An excellent student is the one who is very silent; always polite; always into learning; and so on........ It's really shocking to say that at each stage what we expect from students are stereotyped behaviour which is totally impossible at such a young age. Youth is a time of disapproval of rules and rebelliousness all rolled into one. It's like the old dictum......there's a season for flowering; a season for bearing fruits; yet another for their ripening. The same biologica...