Let me ask another similar question.
- Do good teachers help students to learn?
The answer to this simple question is not so simple.
I had the occasion to teach during my PhD course and also as an Adjunct Faculty in my institute.
I was also the Course Director of the IRS (C&CE) officers of 2008 and 2009 batch where I took a large number of classes.
- I have found that in the class some students learn so well that they can write even better answer than me.
- However, I have also found that some students are so ignorant of my teaching that I feel as if I have not taught them at all.
The learning by a student is a combination of the effort of the teacher and the student.
If a student is not willing, no teacher can teach him.
If a student is mischievous, he would learn bad things even if the teacher is teaching good things in the class.
A teacher was trying to explain to the students the ill effects of drinking alcohol.
He took two beakers. One was filled with water and the other was filled with alcohol.
He then took one insect and dropped on the beaker that was filled with water.
The insect could easily swim over the water and reached to the other side.
Then he dropped the insect in the beaker filled with alcohol.
The insect couple not swim but died within no time.
Then the teacher asked the students, ‘What lesson you learn from this experiment?’
One student replied, ‘Sir! It means that if you drink alcohol, it will kill all the worms in your body.’
This is what happens with motivational speakers also.
If you are a good learner, you would find their lectures extremely useful and life transforming.
However, if you're dumb or you are there to only prove the speaker wrong, you would find the lecture and the speaker both useless.
-Awdhesh Singh
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