If anyone knows where I can find Dr. D. S. Kothari, Prof. - Delhi University, Physicist & Astrophysicist, pls reply as comment to this post.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Thursday, December 01, 2005
We ourselves,...
Well, I strongly believe that the Bachelor of Science (Honours) Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics are Class I courses for furthering the cause of science and deciphering the laws of nature. But, the structure and non-flexibility of the curriculum does not encourage students to go into further depth, and explore the subject in their own original way (unless such desperate and happening desires are ignited within oneself!).
The lab. practicals hardly mean and teach us anything, or more correctly we hardly bother to learn from them. Instead short/long-term and other meaningfull and projects would be manyfold better.
Lab. practicals are often almost and always done for the sake of filling up a so called practical-file and that too at the end of the semester! The right attitude to read, understand, question and think about is missing. These courses are such that one can be happy all time as regards a good research career in these future-fields of knowledge and progress.
We are students who study, some of us try to interperate what's happening around us, we must not be those puppets on this stage but...(hope you understand).
Curiosity, the so called mother of discoveries and many inventions, is missing in most (or should I say almost all) of the students and surprisingly even teachers (though one should not blame them because they also took their degrees in a similar environment and probably because their elders suggested so, as they do suggest us as well).
Students 90%+ times hardly care and thus don't know what's happening in the labs. and esp. what the crux of the experiment is? But, what some of them know is how to go about the experiment and what all to record as regards observations etc. Thanks to those x, y, z authored lab-manuals. But, must I not question, is that all? Is that what we call a Physics Honours degree? And most of all, our dear teachers, they don't seem to bother neither themselves nor the students to understand and analyze what they are doing. This does a lot, the student is happy since the teacher does not question, and the teacher is happy since the students don't question and probably analyze and revert back with those weird and curious questions. It's our duty to educate each other and share knowledge. Why must we not do so? Is it that we never questioned these things when we were kids, or probably we are still ignorant about them because there will hardly be a student asking about such so called rare stuff? (Probably, both are true, I'm not blaming anyone, but why not think ourselves...)
With the examination system judging our academic strengths and standards one and that too by just a few questions, and remember those internal exams (where open-copying, circulating answer-scripts, ...), the so called asignments (3 do and 60 copy, a mind-blowing ratio!), the system and administration is just awesome, is it not?
Wonder what'll happen if I complete my degree, all I know is that this is going to be my most weird and memorable time, I'll surely remember it for those impressively spent college years, doing this-and-that comprising nothing, playing bat-ball (which I somehow don't), idling around nowhere, but surely enjoying joking with Mr. Feynman!
Life is it? I don't call it to be so! +...
The lab. practicals hardly mean and teach us anything, or more correctly we hardly bother to learn from them. Instead short/long-term and other meaningfull and projects would be manyfold better.
Lab. practicals are often almost and always done for the sake of filling up a so called practical-file and that too at the end of the semester! The right attitude to read, understand, question and think about is missing. These courses are such that one can be happy all time as regards a good research career in these future-fields of knowledge and progress.
We are students who study, some of us try to interperate what's happening around us, we must not be those puppets on this stage but...(hope you understand).
Curiosity, the so called mother of discoveries and many inventions, is missing in most (or should I say almost all) of the students and surprisingly even teachers (though one should not blame them because they also took their degrees in a similar environment and probably because their elders suggested so, as they do suggest us as well).
Students 90%+ times hardly care and thus don't know what's happening in the labs. and esp. what the crux of the experiment is? But, what some of them know is how to go about the experiment and what all to record as regards observations etc. Thanks to those x, y, z authored lab-manuals. But, must I not question, is that all? Is that what we call a Physics Honours degree? And most of all, our dear teachers, they don't seem to bother neither themselves nor the students to understand and analyze what they are doing. This does a lot, the student is happy since the teacher does not question, and the teacher is happy since the students don't question and probably analyze and revert back with those weird and curious questions. It's our duty to educate each other and share knowledge. Why must we not do so? Is it that we never questioned these things when we were kids, or probably we are still ignorant about them because there will hardly be a student asking about such so called rare stuff? (Probably, both are true, I'm not blaming anyone, but why not think ourselves...)
With the examination system judging our academic strengths and standards one and that too by just a few questions, and remember those internal exams (where open-copying, circulating answer-scripts, ...), the so called asignments (3 do and 60 copy, a mind-blowing ratio!), the system and administration is just awesome, is it not?
Wonder what'll happen if I complete my degree, all I know is that this is going to be my most weird and memorable time, I'll surely remember it for those impressively spent college years, doing this-and-that comprising nothing, playing bat-ball (which I somehow don't), idling around nowhere, but surely enjoying joking with Mr. Feynman!
Life is it? I don't call it to be so! +...
Saturday, November 19, 2005
University top officials
Vice Chancellor: Prof. Deepak Pental
ProVice Chancellor: Prof. S. K. Tandon
Dean of Colleges: Prof. Sirin Rathore
Director, South Campus: Prof. Dinesh Singh
ProVice Chancellor: Prof. S. K. Tandon
Dean of Colleges: Prof. Sirin Rathore
Director, South Campus: Prof. Dinesh Singh
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