“I have heard you are giving lectures to the students,” said Professor NKK in disgust, “I have heard you are giving lectures about Physics. I have heard you connect things to the real world and explain the laws of Physics. I have heard you are not giving notes!”
“Ha ha ha.” Laughed Professor RRS.
“I am sorry, sir.” said JS, in a low voice, “I always get confused about how to spend those 55 minutes.”
“How many such 55 minutes you get?”
“What about having a cup of tea with us?”
“I don’t drink tea sir, not for 55 minutes.”
“Ha ha ha.” Laughed Professor RRS.
“This guy is insane.” declared professor PMT.
“No madam, I am young. I am new.” defended JS.
“Look kid, the more you’ll teach, the more you’ll confuse them. Give them notes and finish things off!” NKK started again.
“But sir, don’t you think, it is our duty to teach them well. They can find notes from anywhere. The key is to build their concepts.”
“Ha ha ha.” Laughed Professor RRS.
“I told you, this guy is insane!” PMT interfered.
“Indeed you are new kid.” NKK concluded.
“You haven’t told me, you told Professor PMT!”
“Look JS” NKK leaned forward in superiority, “understand the system. Let things go, as they are going. Those kids will do well with their life. They are the one who needs to bother. Why are you taking pain to build their concepts?”
“Because he is insane!” PMT said.
“Ha ha ha” laughed Professor RRS, “ha ha ha.”
“Sir, because, doing well with one’s life isn’t sufficient for our country. The future prospects are getting damaged, with this action of ours.”
“Look boy” started NKK, “I am putting it straight. Yesterday, in the laboratory, a student asked me to explain him the mechanism of Kater’s pendulum.”
“Oh God, this guy is insane! I can’t keep on feeding them with spoon every time. They need to find it by themselves!”
“Yes! I told you, this guy is insane!”
“So, what can I do in it?” asked JS in a puzzled expression.
“You can do many things by not doing anything.” Said NKK.
“It’s because you are insane.” Told PMT
“You are teaching them well. It is raising their expectations.”
“I suppose, that is why I am here.”
“No! You are here because you were qualified for being here.”
“But what they need my qualifications for?”
“And that is what, I am doing.”
“No! You are not just teaching. You are teaching well!”
“They needed those qualifications for not to teach well?”
“I am not teaching well and they didn’t not need me. You are teaching well and you are in trouble.”
“I am the vice-principal too. You are in trouble.”
“I got it! What I need to do?”
“You just didn’t need to do anything.”
“Okay. But what I am supposed to do?”
“You have to start drinking tea.”
“Ha ha ha.” Laughed Professor RRS.
“Be our pal. Be our buddy. You’ll be always safe.”
It was already late. The professors broke the daily meeting and went home. Next morning, in the similar manner, NKK, RSS, PMT along with few other Professors but JS, were discussing about the same topic they left in between, the previous day when suddenly the door opened. It was JS who was just coming after a class. Unlike everyday, he gave the students notes and said proudly-
“Buddy, I shrunk the kids!”
