Lessons Learnt from School Assignments
As we were returning from work, one of my colleagues was giving vent to his irritation with the kind of assignments his daughter is given at school: the kind that can only be done by parents. Looks like India has improved on a whole lot of thing since the time I was a kid, but (sigh) not on this front. But what was amusing about my friend’s ranting were the following “learnings” he listed for his daughter every time her parents did the assignment: - Take credit for what others did, - Lie if asked who made the stuff, - Assignments will always be way beyond your abilities or skills or involve instruments your parents don’t want you to use (like scissors and knives). Sad to say but every one of us can say, “Been there, learnt that” about his list of learnings from our own childhood, can’t we? But I remember this one time when ...