Of Furlongs and Foot...
It's not often that I get startled by a Professor's remarks,comments or Lecture in general ( they are too cliched to titilate your innards, and you've probably heard them a couple of thousand times before).But the following one liner did catch my attention, and I have to give myself the credit for that.It's a very difficult thing to do, pay attention that is, in a midday lecture of a course meant primarily for the "Children of Boredom" (read "matkas"), and to top it all me still just half way through the deep slumber of post-holiday hibernation.Enough of babbling, I do think its an original :
"In university education, the amount of lecture absorbed by a student is inversely proportional to the square of his distance from the professor"-- Prof.(need-to-know-basis)
any one listening ....
PS : To clarify any speck of doubt, I was sitting in the second row (for a change,feel the benches out there that is).
It's not often that I get startled by a Professor's remarks,comments or Lecture in general ( they are too cliched to titilate your innards, and you've probably heard them a couple of thousand times before).But the following one liner did catch my attention, and I have to give myself the credit for that.It's a very difficult thing to do, pay attention that is, in a midday lecture of a course meant primarily for the "Children of Boredom" (read "matkas"), and to top it all me still just half way through the deep slumber of post-holiday hibernation.Enough of babbling, I do think its an original :
"In university education, the amount of lecture absorbed by a student is inversely proportional to the square of his distance from the professor"-- Prof.(need-to-know-basis)
any one listening ....
PS : To clarify any speck of doubt, I was sitting in the second row (for a change,feel the benches out there that is).
posted by Himadri at Saturday, October 22, 2005
2 Comments:
to be exact the quote was 'inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the teacher.'
[tarun] thanks for bringing that out.As gross a mistake as it was, but you have to give me the credit of at least getting the gist of it in my slumbering state
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