Indian Education system has changed a lot over the years and many a times it causes unwanted hassles for students. Yes, the pressure on students is immense and once they become helpless, they are forced to give up their life. If you are a medicine or an engineering student, you must be aware as to how much struggles you have to face.
Students can easily cope up with stress when teachers are attentive and cooperative. But what when a professor is completely against you for ‘Unknown’ reasons? YOU ARE GONE! This issue of ‘Prejudice’ is quite common these days in engineering colleges.
When a professor decides that he/she hates you for whatever reason it may be, you will have to bear the brunt till the end and probably when the results are out, you might realize that you have been ‘FAILED’! Yes, the journey is not going to be easy.
It is not always the case that a student is weak in studies, sometimes it is the teachers who are so prejudiced that they make sure the student fails. If students fall weak in front of such teachers, it gives them power to break and ruin careers.
Shouldn’t students raise their voice over this? Shouldn’t the education system be changed?
Well, Rohan Joshi, a standup comedian narrated one incident from his Engineering days and it definitely taught everyone a good lesson to deal with such professors.
He shared the below story on his twitter account:-
“Indian colleges have some great teachers, but also a ton of pond scum. Bitter, broken, awful people who should not be allowed near kids. In my 2nd semester of engineering, I had an Engineering Drawing teacher who was a complete bastard and a turd of a human being. For whatever reason, he decided he just didn’t like me. In an Indian college, this is pretty much a death sentence in the concerned subject. He made me redo one particular assignment 20 times, I went to college four times during our scheduled study leave just to submit. It got to a point where I’d be weeping in my room over the assignment and my mum would come in and draw for a bit, late at night. I couldn’t tell if I was imagining the prejudice, so I borrowed a friend’s assignment, which the teacher had graded with a perfect score. I got a gigantic piece of tracing paper and over several hours, traced his assignment out exactly. Submitted the next day. FAILED. “Redo.” Luckily I overheard him grumbling to his assistant about how he had to leave town the next day for a family thing. So I waited. Two days later I went back to college and went to the HoD. Said “this teacher was supposed to correct my assignment but he’s left town” The HoD took my assignment, gave it a near perfect score and sent me on my way. I cried in the train, the whole way back. There were a hundred factors I considered before I dropped out of college in the next semester, but this asshole was a key factor. And I bet he’s still there, lording it over his fiefdom, wrecking careers, tearing apart kids’ interest in his subject. I start shaking even today, just thinking about it. The humiliation, the helplessness. And the rage that follows. I literally never went back to that college. I’d get anxiety attacks at the gate. I skipped the entire next term, voluntarily flunked out. If you’re a student and you’re going through anything even remotely similar to this, please talk to someone. Because this is abuse. And it took me entirely too long to recognise that. We brush it off as “tough love teaching methods” but it’s not. It’s soul-crushing.”
So next time, if you see something of this sort happening to you, do remember this story of Rohan Joshi and take appropriate steps. Do let us know your thoughts in our comments section below.