Those days in mid 70s students used to joke about the practicals in colleges, especially in Engineering colleges. In Engineering colleges there used to be Projects for final year students wherein 4 or 5 batchmates would be given one project to do. They have to spend some money and lot of time and manhours to finish the project, spiral bind the thesies and submit it before deadlines.
Boys staying in hostel would tell funny stories about how the boys used to milk lot of money from their poor parents. It used to be a joke that an Agriculture student wrote to his parents that nowa days technology has improved and for the practicals it is not enough to buy bullocks but they require funds for buying a Tractor!
This method of practicals or project or role play has become the norm of today's education system right from kindergarten..
I have been seeing the spate of project works my chidren have to do since so many years now which is still unabated. Many times the parents are involved and often the project works had to be carried in vehicle as children cannot handle them.
The children also have become atuned to this project work or practicals or role play method. But the flip side of it is what i could watch a couple of days ago in TV.....
In a law college in down south in India, it appeared that the students were to learn the law by actually committing crime within the campus. There was rivalry in doing this method of study between two distinct group.
Yeah.. on a given day one set of boys armed with crow bars, sticks and iron rods chased the rival group members and thrashed them mercilessly. Police force was summoned by the Principal to the campus...
But our Police force are the most sincere and law abiding simpletons in uniform.. They have learnt the rules and the regulations and that is why they had to be like goats reaching the riverlets, after reaching on to the scene where this murdourous attacks and madness were going on, could not cross the "Lakshman Rekha" and had to helplessly watch these blood hungry students brutally attacking the fellow(albeit a rival group) students.
The law college students have learnt their law by this excellent practice! That they have committed crime under 302 and many more sections... and, also gained valuable practical lesson as to how to commit a crime in front of a huge police force and get away with it....
The students were very clever in planning the attack within the campus so that police force should take a special permission separately to enter in to the college, even if the college authorities summon them specifically for this problem!
Now our nehtas will have to take a call as to whether they should allow the law to take its 'own course' or protect the "misguided youths"
They will conclude that this is a process of growing up or blame it on the educational system?
In future we could hear more such weird thing happening... such as in Biology lab, because cockroaches and frogs are not readily available, teachers can be dissected.. and many more that anyone's imagination can fail.
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