Behar, Sharad
(2016)
Romancing with education.
Learning Curve (25).
pp. 34-37.
Abstract
This led to students’ agitation, bringing the life of
the town to a standstill. I had to use force for the
first and only time in my career and impose curfew
in the town which had never experienced such
conflict earlier. Students blocked oxygen cylinders
from being taken to the hospital for use of the
patients for whose survival they were required.
However, following the strategy of a flexible and
evolving blend of direct negotiations, helpful
mediations as well as use of force, the agitation was
brought to an end after about 10 days. Those not
involved in tackling a law and order situation in a
small town with limited police force and resources
cannot imagine the difficulty of the task. Most of
the nights were used in planning for the strategy for
the next day and the day was packed with action.
By the end of it all, those of us who were directly
involved were fully exhausted.I love learning. Learning is the heart and the soul
of education. That explains my lifelong love with
education – formal, non-formal, informal et al.
Let us have a peep into a fragment of my love
life that has been as challenging as fulfilling and
occasionally appearing to be hugely frustrating,
endlessly disappointing and dismal beyond repair,
but when clouds clear, the sun of optimism and
enthusiasm shining as bright as in midday. I will
just skip the fascinating experience of joys and
disappointments of facilitating the learning of class
fellows, juniors and even seniors that started with
the third standard and continued until I remained
a student.
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