Mandi speech .. Yunus Speech .. Shorter version .
Students JOIN the institute with PAIN ! .. It is TAPASYA !
They take PAIN to PAY for their Learning. It is LOAN SHERKS from whom they take loans to pay for their education. Most intelligent people + Hard worked people become PREY to banks !
All through their learning it is PAIN / SHAME / FEAR / WASTE / MEANINGLESS learning ! Every student undergo this as part of their college learning ! This is necessary thing for them . It is paradox .. Most meritorious students going through the PAIN !
Great students finish their great studies in prestigious institutions, after putting great pain and effort with huge financial burden tied to their neck ! Most students are indebted.. It is shame that best brains are imparted great knowledge end up with huge DEBT burden !
To overcome indebtedness students ready to loose their FREEDOM in next phase by taking up employment ! Pain and trauma is endless, continuous , meaningless , useless, avoidable, irrational..
Nobody tries to address the problem. It is age old problem. Every region in the world has the same problem.. Academics writes papers, books and submit a reports and conducts workshops to others on what can be done. People who suggest also dont implement. Every body suggests everybody else .
It touched my heart ! I was in search of a solution .
My Journey started in NITIE. It took real turn here on wards !
I have peculiar nature . I dont adopt ready made solutions. I find my solutions for my self. I dont do research. I dont write and conduct workshops, seminars etc. I dont wait for anybody to help me with solutions. If it is my problem, then others solutions are unfit for me . I have strong belief that my problem cannot be solved with others given solution.. I do as I feel fit . I just do it. I jump on doing it without waste of time. Typical academics do not take to this approach .
Face to face I have seen it .
It suddenly occurred to me I can do something about it..
Why not I make my students to SELL what they learn from me . If I make them to earn by selling their learning, extent that they earn will reduce their financial debt that they made. Problem to some extent is reduced. What a big deal.
I immediately started doing it.
It is very tiny amount of money. I saw how interested they to SELL their learning . They are eager to do. beginnign.. dreamt of. Mandi.. method..
If I help them to SELL what they are learning it helps them to get relieved of their debt. It interests them. They
Problem is Huge ! But solution is so simple .
Students can make everyday little earning out of their learning ! I felt it is the simple solution to all the students problems ! .. People big solutions but I look for little solutions not huge solutions.
Solving the problems with here and now solutions is not NEW for me. I was born in problems and lived in problems, and I learned in and with problems . POVERTY was blessing for me as student .
I tried similar solutions as a student for my own ..! Now I am extending this to my students in much more insightful way .
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Mandi a success story : Why and How ?
Thank you very much for the appreciation u showered on me. I m highly indebted for the same . I wish to become worthy of it. I seek your blessings in present and future what I am doing .
My story starts like this ..
I m simple academic .. surely interested in academics like most of you .. I m like you all...
When I deeply reflect .. I am like this..
I CHOOSE TO DO THINGS
...OF MY OWN, ON MY OWN, HAPPEN ON THEIR OWN
MAHA MANDI is a LEARNING METHOD IS.. CHOOSE TO DO THINGS ...OF ones own , ON ones own, happen ON ITS OWN
1. I like ACTION... action on things which are important . I dont postpone the things . Thoght, and thinking does not come to me first. It is the ACTION that comes to me .
2. I do things which fall under my area, under my preview, and my command. More importantly it is NOT under the purview of others. I choose deliberately things which even if others dont want me to do, and want to STOP me not to do, they cannot STOP.
3. I choose things which NEED no support from others, no approval of others, and need no patronage from others .
4. I also limit and focus with the things that matters most to my students ..It is direct , immediate and here and now that must matter.
5. What does not matter to me is SIZE and SCALE but IMPACT and RELEVANCE. It is beginning of RIGHT thing which matters most to me. All combined .. it leads to doing very LITTLE things.. People even lough at me by looking at what TINY things I am doing and engaged in .
-- I have seen most of my faculty colleagues work for academic problems . One such issue that bothered my attention was STUDENTS and their HARDSHIPS in academic learning .
- Most Students join academics with lot of INTEREST but in NO time they become bored, disinterested and wait when academics will be over. I have seen learning is PAINFUL and WASTEFUL,
- Best selected students, with HUGE focus ultimately MAJORITY turned in to SUBSTANDARD output.
- Education is getting to limited to FEW, FEW and FEW only !
Problem seems to be TOO BIG.. and COMPLEX.. But solution which struck to me was so simple ! I have solution. Let me implement for my class students, as part of my course trying to address all these issues .
NO RESEARCH, NO WORKSHOP CONDUCTED, NO PAPER WRITTEN, NO DISCUSSION. IT IS PURELY SELF DECISION.
I told my students they said YES / NO.. but I could win over my students and implemented the solution .. Done that is the beginning. It is happening for the last 12 yrs. It happened in 100 colleges now . It was done by 10K students so far .
SUUKSHMA solution .. You take little value of educational toys. and go out of the class and sell them in the mandi .. Use the experience to apply, to reinforce the learning . It is for one day . It is once as part of the course . It is small selling may be Rs 500 / -.
Mandi a success story : Why and How ?
Thank you very much for the appreciation u showered on me. I m highly indebted for the same . I wish to become worthy of it. I seek your blessings in present and future what I am doing .
My story starts like this ..
I m simple academic .. surely interested in academics like most of you .. I m like you all...
When I deeply reflect .. I am like this..
I CHOOSE TO DO THINGS
...OF MY OWN, ON MY OWN, HAPPEN ON THEIR OWN
MAHA MANDI is a LEARNING METHOD IS.. CHOOSE TO DO THINGS ...OF ones own , ON ones own, happen ON ITS OWN
1. I like ACTION... action on things which are important . I dont postpone the things . Thoght, and thinking does not come to me first. It is the ACTION that comes to me .
2. I do things which fall under my area, under my preview, and my command. More importantly it is NOT under the purview of others. I choose deliberately things which even if others dont want me to do, and want to STOP me not to do, they cannot STOP.
3. I choose things which NEED no support from others, no approval of others, and need no patronage from others .
4. I also limit and focus with the things that matters most to my students ..It is direct , immediate and here and now that must matter.
5. What does not matter to me is SIZE and SCALE but IMPACT and RELEVANCE. It is beginning of RIGHT thing which matters most to me. All combined .. it leads to doing very LITTLE things.. People even lough at me by looking at what TINY things I am doing and engaged in .
-- I have seen most of my faculty colleagues work for academic problems . One such issue that bothered my attention was STUDENTS and their HARDSHIPS in academic learning .
- Most Students join academics with lot of INTEREST but in NO time they become bored, disinterested and wait when academics will be over. I have seen learning is PAINFUL and WASTEFUL,
- Best selected students, with HUGE focus ultimately MAJORITY turned in to SUBSTANDARD output.
- Education is getting to limited to FEW, FEW and FEW only !
Problem seems to be TOO BIG.. and COMPLEX.. But solution which struck to me was so simple ! I have solution. Let me implement for my class students, as part of my course trying to address all these issues .
NO RESEARCH, NO WORKSHOP CONDUCTED, NO PAPER WRITTEN, NO DISCUSSION. IT IS PURELY SELF DECISION.
I told my students they said YES / NO.. but I could win over my students and implemented the solution .. Done that is the beginning. It is happening for the last 12 yrs. It happened in 100 colleges now . It was done by 10K students so far .
SUUKSHMA solution .. You take little value of educational toys. and go out of the class and sell them in the mandi .. Use the experience to apply, to reinforce the learning . It is for one day . It is once as part of the course . It is small selling may be Rs 500 / -.
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