YES, YOUR COLLEGE IS 'THE BEST'... WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Pic.: Pradeep Nanda “12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana (on herd mentality) Y esterday, a young boy had come, accompanied by his parents, to get himself enrolled in my class. He had got online admission in one of the best Commerce colleges in Mumbai through a special quota (Caste). He had scored 72% in SSC. A dear friend of his, who had scored 85%, was unlucky. Forget the ‘best’ college in the city, and forget the online, this girl with her 85%, had landed in one of the remotest colleges, whose name I myself had not heard of! So, this young-man, on the one hand, was ecstatic about his own ‘good luck’ and, on the other, was feeling sad for his best friend. Over decades of teaching these young boys and girls – who went to the ‘best’ and the ‘worst’ colleges in our city – I have formed my firm views over this i...