If you ask anyone, which course you liked most in college life .. especially from students of IIIT Hyderabad, they all will look at you like you have asked which one you like most osama, saddam or Kasaab.
Few of them will say C programming, data structures etc which they learn in first year, the age of innocence and sincerity.
But I'll say Dance, yeah the course under Humanities skill set courses label.
Taken by Sonal Nimbkar madam In first sem.
What she taught us was ‘what’ is dance, not 'how' to dance.
In the first class she just said everyone to walk with their eyes closed first normally
And then walk in a different manner, different style.
I usually try to walk with eyes closed many a times so this was not a problem, I tried but after 7-8 steps, i felt like i was walking like a blind man.
She asked "Aman, you are not taking it seriously", I said no mam "I am serious."
Then i explained that i do this many a times so it was like this.
In next class she made us play dumb-charades on animal names instead of movie names. We had to act like them and producing their sound was allowed.
I got "bat" to act upon. I tried by doing acting and showing black colour, it was easy so everyone guessed.
But when i came back, Akshay mani told me that you could do this by showing cricket bat.
Oh ya!! i though, I was lost in that game, that i forgot about winning it that way.
In next class she gave a stick, ask all of us to sit in a circle, everyone has to come in the middle and do something different with that:
someone used that like cricket bat, someone used it like pen, badminton racket, hammer, flute, straw, screw-driver, meter rod, key board, broom, water bottle and many other different things.
We just came to know that there is enormous creativity inside everyone.
In next class same thing was done using a piece of cloth.
In one class she asked what you saw in dream last night, just tell us all, without using your tongue.
Everyone was showing something, the scene was divine.
It was so beautiful that i could see what the person in front of me dreamed last night, and surprisingly everyone was doing this very enthusiastically and skillfully.
After every class students asked mam when will you teach us dance, she always replied this was dance.
Best thing was that I didn't know there will be grading in the course.
Until 14th of January, when the results were declared.
I got A grade :)
NOW
the learning part
I enjoyed the course no doubt but why i was able to enjoy the course, I got the answer in 3rd year, when i took "Education and Self" course.
Whatever we did she said this is dance. We all were happy, because that dance was ours, it came from with in.
We came to know about meaning of dance through that course
Had she taught us the history of dance or bio-psychology or the well defined steps of dance, she wound be teaching us the ‘why’ and ‘how’ part, which we may not have enjoyed that much.Knowing the ‘what’ part itself gives a delight to study it further.
Everybody though it is just a pass or fail course. While some of them enjoyed the course, others didn’t even show interest in it. But the thing was that every class we attended was full of fun, because there was no worry of grades, and cramming up things before the class. Every class we attended with a fresh mind full of creative ideas. This just shows how the modern education system has put this component out of the the learning. It was totally unbiased learning. :)
Few of them will say C programming, data structures etc which they learn in first year, the age of innocence and sincerity.
But I'll say Dance, yeah the course under Humanities skill set courses label.
Taken by Sonal Nimbkar madam In first sem.
What she taught us was ‘what’ is dance, not 'how' to dance.
In the first class she just said everyone to walk with their eyes closed first normally
And then walk in a different manner, different style.
I usually try to walk with eyes closed many a times so this was not a problem, I tried but after 7-8 steps, i felt like i was walking like a blind man.
She asked "Aman, you are not taking it seriously", I said no mam "I am serious."
Then i explained that i do this many a times so it was like this.
In next class she made us play dumb-charades on animal names instead of movie names. We had to act like them and producing their sound was allowed.
I got "bat" to act upon. I tried by doing acting and showing black colour, it was easy so everyone guessed.
But when i came back, Akshay mani told me that you could do this by showing cricket bat.
Oh ya!! i though, I was lost in that game, that i forgot about winning it that way.
In next class she gave a stick, ask all of us to sit in a circle, everyone has to come in the middle and do something different with that:
someone used that like cricket bat, someone used it like pen, badminton racket, hammer, flute, straw, screw-driver, meter rod, key board, broom, water bottle and many other different things.
We just came to know that there is enormous creativity inside everyone.
In next class same thing was done using a piece of cloth.
In one class she asked what you saw in dream last night, just tell us all, without using your tongue.
Everyone was showing something, the scene was divine.
It was so beautiful that i could see what the person in front of me dreamed last night, and surprisingly everyone was doing this very enthusiastically and skillfully.
After every class students asked mam when will you teach us dance, she always replied this was dance.
Best thing was that I didn't know there will be grading in the course.
Until 14th of January, when the results were declared.
I got A grade :)
NOW
the learning part
I enjoyed the course no doubt but why i was able to enjoy the course, I got the answer in 3rd year, when i took "Education and Self" course.
Whatever we did she said this is dance. We all were happy, because that dance was ours, it came from with in.
We came to know about meaning of dance through that course
Had she taught us the history of dance or bio-psychology or the well defined steps of dance, she wound be teaching us the ‘why’ and ‘how’ part, which we may not have enjoyed that much.Knowing the ‘what’ part itself gives a delight to study it further.
Everybody though it is just a pass or fail course. While some of them enjoyed the course, others didn’t even show interest in it. But the thing was that every class we attended was full of fun, because there was no worry of grades, and cramming up things before the class. Every class we attended with a fresh mind full of creative ideas. This just shows how the modern education system has put this component out of the the learning. It was totally unbiased learning. :)
17 comments:
Good post Aman!!!... I m happy to see that u r able to connect real education with real happiness. I wish others also r able to understand the difference between education n skill n try searching for real education in life. Real education need not be obtained only through courses it can be taken from day to day events of our life also...so keep learning n enjoying life.
Keep writing... :)
I would love to hear bucha's point of view here ;)
hmm..a nice once :) and truly said the essence of true education is been missing :P
i got a D in cultural understanding... fuck bamboo..
nice post maeeee :P .... the same way i liked our poetry course very much .. creativity should be encouraged in all the courses :)
nice work aman...cultural activities are also important...but our education system doesnot understand this point :(
your way of thinking is just amazing :)
Abe sirf 1st Sem kyun? 2nd Sem mein bhi andhi maze aaye the ...
Haunted Graveyard, Physical States of Matter, Solid States ... kitni BC kari thi.
And not to mention the 'A's that came easily :)
@pratibha mam, piyush sir : thanks :)
@shanks: yeah m too waiting for that
@shukla: sympathy
@sanidhi: thanks :)
@govind: yeah i too wanted to take that course, but had already taken 3 humanities, and appaji was not allowing more
@ujju : yeah will write on HSS-2 too, that was more awesome :)
your language has improved a lot :) .. liked your article .. waiting for the next one.
@Akshita mam : thanks :) yeah many more in the queue, will post them soon
good comeback on blog... m proud of u bro :) keep it up !!
very well written :)
@didi: thanks :)
@madhulika: thank you :)
I did not know Ms Sonal and that she is doing such a great job. Good that you shared your experience with us :)
@raina mam : She was our Dance teacher, now she is doing phd from CEH.
liked it
even i used to enjoy every class of creative movement
the only class where i involve whole heartedly
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