The Hindu 18.09.2013
Corporation school students learn a new lesson
Class X students and teachers of a Corporation High
School at Tallakulam here had a different experience on Tuesday as they
listened to a lecture on how to score high marks without memorising
textbook content.
Agasthya Bharathy, an
advocate-turned-stress management trainer, delivered the lecture.
According to him, every student can score good marks if he or she
ensures total concentration in classes and if teachers make their
students do so.
The teachers would find some students
not sitting straight and looking at them, some others sitting
indifferently, and some students munching something, he said. When the
teacher turned towards the blackboard, a few students would talk to
others, exchange pens and books, disturb the attentive ones, and make
comments about the teacher, he noted.
Such students
felt that they were forced to go to school. They always waited for an
opportunity to stay out of the class, and they got angry when they were
chided by their teachers, he pointed out.
“Those
students’ physical presence in the class does not have much in
connection with their mental presence. They can grasp only 20 to 25 per
cent of what is taught in class and end up struggling to match the rest
by mugging up during examinations. Worse is the case of adolescent
students, falling under these categories, whose physical presence has no
connection with their mental presence due to various reasons,” he
added. He said students must always make eye contact with the teachers
and follow carefully what was taught.
Initially, it
would be difficult for a dull student to concentrate, but once a student
ensures 100 per cent physical and mental presence, he would get
attracted towards studies, he claimed.
“Whenever
students get time, they should close their eyes for a few moments and
tell themselves that they are born to win, to make history and they have
the ability to reach great heights,” he added.
Mr.Bharathy,
who recently brought out a Tamil book on parenting and motivating
children, had been conducting such sessions for Government and
Corporation school studentssince last year.