I am not into teaching. I am mainly into research.
- A professor to a classroom in a B School
The above quote is from a world class researcher (or so he claimed ) offered as a pre emptive explanation to his students in the beginning of a semester course at a leading B school. As you know me – I don’t like to take names or point fingers. The explanation was for lack of teaching skills , basic verbal skills , low self esteem , women issues and other many things that were painfully on display for mind numbingly dreadful 22 sessions. So can a B school professor really claim that it is research that matters and not teaching. continue reading…
Recently, there was some news about how IIT professors are planning to do away with IIT JEE, although there was no mention of what alternative they have in its place.They have been planning to do away with it for long now. The professors usually have some or the other complain with IIT JEE. They think that students crack entrance exams with the help of coaching classes but do not have genuine interest in engineering. JEE cannot test their creative thinking etc etc. It is all basically self serving bias.Your success is entirely your own while your failure is someone else’s fault. If there is one biggest reason that IIT kills engineering enthusiasm of many students – it is the professors themselves. 
Don’t laugh and the whole world laughs at you. Before they invented canned laughter they used to pay a propotion of the audience to laugh at the jokes or applaud at critical parts of the performance. “When in doubt follow the crowd “ – this short cut to do what the majority is doing perhaps best explains why I took up engineering.
