All my recently attained knowledge of different methodology of teaching was put into action in a tutorial - rather more than one, only to turn out to be a disaster! Just as chemistry that works between a successful couple, I also found during my teaching years that some batches had a very good chemistry with my teaching. I used to eagerly handle their classes with overwhelming enthusiasm. But there were some batches at tutorials where you found that an odd spoilsport doing the havoc for the entire batch.

 Most of the tutorials are not based on any rational assessment, their assessment is totally based on the whims and fancies of the students and brimming currency in front of their eyes. I am not disagreeing to the point that teacher"s assessment by students are irrational but it is not the sole or the only important source of assessment. There are qualified educationists who can look into these aspects of teaching but rarely do you find any tutorial run by an academician. It is always run by money-minded commercial centres for whom it is a business and obviously the stakeholder of this business is the student (privileged customer who can hold the teacher"s at ransom). The student decides which faculty"s head should be retained or scalped. Many aspects that a tutor can never cover up nor has the time to cover up in his profession are the language, aptitude and knowledge part that a student lacks and as a Biology faculty I could never achieve it too!

 Tutorials were earlier meant for the below average student who tries to improve his academics but today it is more of a commercial venture with all categories of students as stake holder, where gullible parents are guillotined in the name of performance. The role of a teacher as a philosopher, a friend, a guide, a motivator, a facilitator and a mentor is dead in the tutorials. If you bring these aspects into your classes immediately you are branded as an eccentric and there ends your teaching tale. As a Biologist and a strong believer of the core essence of biology-phylogeny (evolution theory) it is bound to be a disaster if you stress and practise what you teach. You are immediately branded as agnostic or atheist! I tried teaching the application aspects of Biology in our day to day life and the ignorance of Biological knowledge which makes us to be easy victims to various superstitions and I had to face the consequences of deviating from the syllabus and preaching blasphemy whereas I was just teaching science. Maybe the jet-set age has made most of our students immune to extra knowledge and rather they would restrict themselves within a set boundary.

 I as a student was delighted by those teachers who used to share extra information relevant to the topic and also I was happy to have those teachers who made me read more rather than being a restricted student. They inspired me to take a profession which involves in making professionals.

Recently, I worked in a tutorial which had a continuous 3 hour session of Biology to be handled with a short break which is against all the set psychological principles of education. You had to teach for continuous three hours without any worries about the consequences or the change in the learning behaviour of the student. I tried adapting to it but it was an impossible feat. I had at my disposal 128 hours for a subject with a syllabus of 75 hours and an already prepared notes at my disposal. You had to stretch the subject syllabus without citing examples away from the textbook or going out of the bounds of the syllabus. Just because they had a policy of 3 hours for Physics, Chemistry and Maths which had more than 100 hours of syllabus, the hapless Biology faculties were put to task. Many did not want to jeopardise the opportunities by speaking it out. I tried reasoning out with the co-ordinator but to no avail. Either you adapt to the situation or you quit. It was a tight rope walk without a rope! I struggled to cope up for two months with two negative feedbacks which was solely put on me rather than realising the objective impossibility of the situation. Thus ended my another venture at a tutorial.

 As a foresight, I feel I should have rather stood up for the principles of education than trying to adapt to the conditions offered! Maybe some of you might opine that it is all a tale of sour grapes and you are welcome to do so but isn"t there an element of truth in what I stated??????