Agony of good teachers in IIT

guru brahma guru vishnu, guru devo maheswaraya !
guru sakshat parbrahma tasmay shree guruven namah !!

Surprised,

I am still a final year student of IIT...still attending more than 80% of the lectures and certainly not wandering in the caves of himalyas.

Then why such a legendary shloka to begin with. I will be directly accused of starting a satsang. But i dont mind because i want to look at both sides of a coin. I have already completed my duties as a student of critcizing the professors as much i could, opening my heart to all the pain inflicted by the most soporific, irritating, US accented, Painful and what not profs of IIT bombay.

But are all the profs like that....MOST DEFINITELY A BIG NOOOOO...!!!

So who are these kind hearted, loving, helping, good teachers.....who are the messiah of the people who app and go to MIT or Stanfy.

In this semester i have good or bad luck of running into two such professors who have infinite enthu to teach, interact and do things well in the class. But how do we students respond !!!
By sleeping, talking, turning up when half the class is over... How can they stand it. I dont know, and had i been in there place i would have given FR to all such students. But they dont do that.

What is the problem...Problem is that our department has hidden the best of its professors till the very end when i have no desire, requirement to study. Why cant prof XYZ who is one of the best teachers of our dept. take the introductory course. I dont have an answer and i dont think the dept has it either. The system seems like a draw of lots rather than a strategic decision to get freshies intersted, and ethusiased about chemical engineering. But by blaming the department i and other students cant get away from the responsibility of killing the teacher inside such a kind and fighter heart.

The result !! this guy would also stop caring for Btechs and his teaching after a few years and will only care about his research. I would do the same in his situation ...why wont he....And i do believe that this would have happend to many profs who could or still are really good teachers.

Solutions to this situation...!!!
I cant think of any...

I would end this post with a thanks to my physics and chemistry teachers who made me a responsible student for their subjects...but sadly my maths teacher couldnt and i still am bad at the subject.

Guru govind dou khade, kake lagoon pair!
Balihari guru aapke, govind dio batay!!

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