To teach or not to teach, that is not the question. In fact, the real problem is whether they learn or do not learn. That is because all the teaching/learning is yet online. The real question hence is to teach or not to teach, online!
Who is afraid of offline teaching? Actually, every stakeholder in the academic context is now bored to tears. Teachers are tired of teaching to faceless screens. Students miss the much dreaded peer pressure, actually the peer(less) fun! Parents would be happy to have the brat making life hell, away from the home-n-hearth, at least for sometime! Advantages of the claustrophobic feel, such as the MCQ exam granting geniusdom(dumb, actually) to one and all, and that, too, without any hard work, are much, much fewer!
The real problem is that everything else, being revenue (re)sources, is (out in the) open. Education, the poor relative ever, since the days of Dronacharya, for instance, continues to be the (experi)mental(!!?!!) ground. Conveniently, moreover, one can continue to call the acharya all sorts of names, too!
Cast (note the spelling please, before beginning some, often timepass, protest!) on the computer mode/mad(e), online teaching/learning has already lost the glitz-n-shine of e-lectr(on)ic excuses that valiantly bore the brunt of every absence. One could wake up late, for instance,and, while lolling in the bed, call the lecture a drone while enjoying hot tea/coffee all along. The internet connection could conveniently evaporate into thin air the moment the teacher asked an inconvenient question, for instance.
No loss, no gain though! If Diwali ends with the usual fanfare, can offline lectures be far behind?🤣
Pratima@no offline education, no fun!
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