Regulating student's life.. It sucks

You put them through a grilling competitive examinations and churn out only the cream of the cream who are entitled to walk inside those golden gates in pursuit of glory and re-inventing themselves. You bombard them with thousand hours of lectures, presentations and assignments and then you wonder that why they are under stress. You put them through a gruelling routine where a student can't see beyond his monotonous life and gets frustrated thinking that this life will always be the same. Hour by hour minute by minute and is not going to change. Well, his next act is jumping from terrace, taking drugs, injecting himself with deadly morphine or heroine or something else. hanging himself with fan and then again you wonder that why students of today can't absorb stress.

I have a simple answer. I agree that in your age there were not enough schools, colleges, opportunities available but also lacking was the competition. You did not have to carry all the burden of expectations of your parents who are exposed to so many situations. You did not face competition from all around the world. So, when you do a comparison you always chose to discount the change happening around us. If a guy in US comes with one software we are all affected and may be thousand will loose their job. You never faced situations of this kind and all you want is to put regulations on the student's lives.

It could work but then it should come from a participative style and not a forced approach. Banning internet is not a solution to your problems, it's your mindset which shows that this is the source of all the stress in their lives but my dear old friends, it's not internet, its you who are tormenting them and tearing their brains apart. Dont distrust the wisdom of your students, don't discount that they have toiled hard and probably many of them knows where they belong. Don't take their toys away from them. Let them play, let them have fun. IIT'ians are also normal human beings with a little extra knowledge.

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