Looking at the rain outside we all were eagerly waiting in our chairs for the faculty to arrive and the class to begin.
Dr Prasad aka Dr.Mandi entered the class , unsettled us from our comfy chairs and asked us to sit on the floor and started talking in Hindi ; he took us all back to our roots , to that rawness and we all felt nostalgic at that point of time.
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| NITIE - Syndicate 2 - Section B |
The class started with Sir introducing himself and we were delighted when Sir said that 'He was born to teach' and it truly reflected during the entire session that he was indeed born to teach.
Sir started requesting questions from the students and there mere many enlightening and interesting things that we discussed :
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| MANDI , 2009 |
We discussed about the concept ,origin and intricacies of the same.We realized that Mandi is one of the best ways to learn management at grass root level.We were amazed by the fact that this concept was so interesting , that it attracted lakhs of sponsorship , ranging from the clothes to umbrella and everything.Also , not only we , even the media was intrigued by this concept of NITIE Students taking management to the city at such a basic level,learning and earning from it ; and they covered parts of this event.
We discussed about the event and realized that the event covers all the aspects of management ;from choosing your own products(from Gandhi biographies to Alumni products),
procuring the same , deciding your own strategy, deciding the cost of the product , to ways to sell the products.
It made us realize that management is not learned in the classroom , it is learned when you are out there outside in action , trying to learn out of your attempt to earn.
2) Innovative Educational Products
There came a time when Sir reached for his bag , took out some products and handed over them to us.
One of them was Newtons Cradle , other one was Globe Ball , and the last product was much More than a Butterfly.
The beauty of the products , which were basically toys, was that they gave more Gyan than Fun.
a) Newtons Cradle - an innovation toy by two students of production engineering which helped them set up their first firm while they were in college itself and
also put to practice all their assignments on the same, taught basics principles of physics in fun way.
It made us realize the importance of practical learning and which is indeed a much more fun way and the real way to learn.This introduced us to the concept of learning through earning. We realized that real learning is that , out of which we can earn , and that there is no point in learning , if no earning can happen out of it. And that we should learn in a way that it automatically leads to earning. And somewhere in our mind we all ended up making a resolution to earn at least a fraction of the amount we are spending here while we are learning.
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| Newtons Cradle |
b) Globe ball and More than Butterfly - The ball had a globe printed on it.A boy can play with both of them as well learn from the globe printed on the ball and the principles of science which are inherent in the design of the butterfly.
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| Globe Ball |
The important point we learned through this was that opportunities lay around us, we just have to think differently & grab them.We have learned a lot throughout our student life now it is the time to apply it & earn while we learn.
At the end of the session, we felt enlightened and somehow this session has already left an everlasting impression on our mind.
We just Cant wait for the coming sessions ! Cheers !
P.S - You can have a look at the man in action here - http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=B2R8hzI8jXA
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