Last
weekend I went to an Engineering college for some work. It’s a well known
college in the town as it’s been named with the local politician who is the
core trustee of the institution. It’s around 3-4 Km inside from main highway. I
got down on highway at college road waiting for an auto rickshaw. Finally after
long wait of 45 minutes, one auto rickshaw came and was ready to go to the
college. He demanded 100 Rs fare for just 2.5 km. I started arguing but gave up
too early as he was saying he won’t get fare while returning so he has to
charge double.
From
outside it seemed to be a good college with big campus. Football ground,
basketball-volleyball court, Gymkhana everything was perfect. Forgetting about the
struggle I have had to reach the college, I entered the main building of the
campus.
From
the construction I realized that it’s not a very old college. Someone told me
it started just 2-3 years back. I was getting happier while walking the
corridor reading quotes written on big posters hanging on the wall.
Suddenly
I stopped walking reading the lines written on one of the poster. It stated
“The human
brain is the most outstanding organ. It functions 24hrs 365 days,
right from the time you are born until you fall in love”. I felt silent after reading
those lines. How can someone put posters with such quotes in college? Hasn’t
this noticed by any of the staff or trustee member? Why no one raised any concern
about this? Does the admin authority that has put this poster know the meaning
of the sentence? Is it really worth putting such quotes on display? How the
audit team will react to this? Or will they not?
So
many questions rose in my mind and I started fighting in my own thoughts. I
decided to meet principal and tell him about my concern.
Though
it seems funny reading above lines, school or college is not the place where
you can put this. The college authority should be more concerned while sharing
any content publicly as it represents their college status and such things make
big impact on students mind.
Let’s
teach something that will enhance their personality. Love is such a nice
concept and you don’t need to stop your brains for that.
Anyways
there are social networking sites for such funny messages and at least schools
and colleges should not participate actively in this.
