Monday, October 19, 2009

Our Schools, Their Schools

Teachers are always Ma’am(s) and Sir(s)
Teachers addressed by name

Text books with lengthy paragraphs
Text books with pictures, back to being twelve

Multimedia teaching is a rarity
Multimedia teaching is a way of life, god bless youtube

High propensity to cheat
Even higher potential of academic honesty

Good grades should be announced to all, Pappu pass ho gaya
Grades are a private matter

Parents aware of child’s performance throughout education cycle
Invasion of privacy if parents want to know their 18-year old’s scores

The same teachers and methods continue unthreatened forever
Anonymous appraisals by students, you know exactly why you’re liked or not

Office hours may or may not be held, teacher’s whim can’t be questioned
Too many office hour misses and someone’s bound to notice

Far, far more serious and hardworking
Life’s a peach, it’s mine for plucking.

5 comments:

Jeff Moss said...

I like your live traffic feed off to the right. I'm Budapest, obviously.

Very true...this reminds me of the "classroom in your country, classroom at the IALC" questionnaire that we used to do during new student orientation, back when I was teaching ESL at Washington State.

Swetank Gupta said...

Very nice.

I couldn't pick one over the other even though I wanted to.

R said...

Grades a private matter. Everyone could live with that wonderful idea. I know I'd love it. :D

Butterfly said...
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Butterfly said...

'Pappu pass ho gaya'...:-D
It was a really nice thought to include that phrase!

But, textbooks with pictures and without lengthy paragraphs? That has to be one of the nicest things on earth.:-) The first things that get on my nerves when I open my books, are long paragraphs.