Live Long University Wits!!!

 

“An upstart crow beautified with our feathers”, I would add, Robert Greene’ is not of his times but for all times. His attack on William Shakespeare for his fame despite his 'disqualification' of not being a university educate, is timeless. Literary figures including Shelley, Byron and Keats too have faced music and been addressed as the members of 'cockney school of poetry'. What one becomes or unbecomes does not entirely depend on one’s academics.

My being a post graduate from a “non standard” university through distance mode has often been a matter of laughter, mockery and under estimation among the peers at workplaces. These ‘University Wits’ being proud for their accomplishment, marginalize and victimize these poor ‘Shakespeares’. (I did not mean that I am Shakespeare). It would be better if one looks back and find how far the possible number of exposures are availed while pursuing their academics in reputed universities.

A similar disparity is faced by the private college faculty nonetheless the students they make, receive certificates equivalent to the certificates obtained by the stakeholders of Government/Aided institutions. Even these students after they score high marks and get admitted in the famous institutions, deliberately forget their past and try to wipe off their memories of undergoing education in the ‘less’ reputed private institution which has scaffolded them to get admission in the so called ‘reputed institution’.  Attitude matters!

The quality of a teacher depends not entirely on where she/he had their education but how far they keep on educating and upgrading themselves being into teaching. Making use of the opportunities to upskill and upgrade oneself is the only way out. Let’s hope that a day will turn up in future where the quality of teachers is counted not with their past achievements but how they act in the present to patch up their past incompetency. 

Until then, live long university wits!