New Learning and the New Learners

Learning is a continuous process but learners will cease to be learners after some time in their life. I am a teacher for the past nine years of my life. Teaching is other side of the coin called my life. Classrooms are my dreamscape. Like prostitution teaching is one of the world’s oldest professions. Both the professions have helped mankind to remain sane without losing the grip over logic. Maybe these days the borders that separate them are slowly melting away.

I do not want to be rude or sarcastic. I am still a teacher who believes that education is well done when it is made self-driven. Self learning is the best learning- goes the old saying. Like the self-made business man played by Daniel Day Lewis’s in the movie – ‘There will be Blood’ – it is healthier for a learner to become a self-seeker. The more he depends on his teachers the less he will use his innate skills and talents. Every teacher wants to play TZP Aamir Khan in real life pulling the child out of his cocoon. It is always good to give it a try but even a teacher has got his limits. He cannot be pushed hard. He is fully human and fully alive.

Students today seem to run after many things, they are so worried about the future; their perspective on campus life has changed. The most alarming thing about them is that they have lost the courage to stand alone. They have become highly dependant on others for ideas, opinions, and information (not knowledge). I have my strong feelings against these dependent characters. I am aware that I cannot demand that my students behave exactly the way I want them to behave. The only thing that I demand from them is that they should think and act for themselves.