The whole of today, almost the whole, I had to spend in intimating and convincing students to submit assignments due circa November 20 latest. The post Diwali seemed to extend in to post Sankranti.
What I found quite interesting in this whole procedure were two facts; viz, as usual all the teachers shared the plight, and students seemed least concerned.
True, our education system sucks. Yet should not students, too, proceed at least three steps in the right/"write" direction when teachers are literally in their drawing rooms due to online teaching? Why is there such total lack of responsibility? These very youngsters would be excessively aggressive when it comes to their rights. That is undoubtedly good, too.
But with rights come responsibilities, too, right? Unfortunately, currently most all seem to forget this fact. However, unless and until we are sincere about our responsibilities, too, an obsession with our rights alone makes us shallow, self-centered, stupid, self-obsessed, hardly the characteristics of a good soul and/or decent, mature individuals/societies!
Lucky indeed we are that Aai-Papa forced us to realise the importance of our responsibilities. Hence this tribute to their sense of loving responsibility to us, and ours!
Pratima@assuming responsibility is granting oneself and others the assurance that you are the solution, and never the problem.
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