Did you ever feel when you were a student and when you were learning a subject, how it would help you in your life? When i was in school i thought of it once, but it was about topping in the marks instead those days. So i left the thought of knowing the practical importance of the subject and focussed on the marks instead.
Time flew. Was in my PG now. And the same old thoughts revived when i saw and when we were being teached some subjects in my MBA. It was not about marks for me this time around. How helpful are these subjects to me in my life? Let me talk about a few of them.
We had a subject called business ethics. Do we really need to know about business ethics? Definitely one needs to know the aspect of business ethics, but do you need a subject on this??When you go for a job and you start working, and in the process you find that to achieve the organisations goals, you need to do something unethical, are you going to fight against it? i don’t think anybody’s got the balls to do that. Or you could quit the job. If you do that, you’ll keep on quitting. I found it tough to interpret as of where am i going to use business ethics in my life. One thing i know is that you could persuade or convince the management in achieving your career goals, but you can’t mess around with the organisations goals(ethical or unethical).
Also i find it interesting about how you measure the outcome or the output of the subject. Would it be by the marks that one achieves? Hope not. But sadly lots of post grad’s wannabe’s still crave for the marks that they get. They may deny it, but that’s the beauty of life. Everybody loves to live in denial. I’ve seen dudes cry about their grades, and that to me was funny as shit.
Anyway i have come across some subjects during my post grad that i feel are just worth knowing, and don’t really see the need to go in depths. Consider this “written and oral communication”. Do you need a three months of brain wash on this? I mean its allright to just brush up your learning’s on subjects like these, but as a subject! HELL NO. When you have entered into a professional degree like an MBA, i honestly expect you know how to type an email or a memo. Come on man, you don’t need a subject for this. You could maybe just take up a session for this, but you need not dedicate three months of your valuable time in learning to type a memo.
I feel that the shortage of professional teachers is making it much simpler for universities in the choosing of subjects. I mean how knowledgeable one has to be in teaching oral skills? Do you need a PH.D for this? look, not all would like what i am saying, but that’s the way it is. I am not an expert in these subjects as well, but i know enough to get along. I see subjects like operations and feel why don’t they have more subjects like these? And i get to know that you can brag about oral skills, but you need guys with brains and practical exposure to teach those kind of subjects. And that is a tough and tiring combination for the management to find. So why bother, let us think of having oral skills-volume 2 instead...fuck man.
Now the universities may again realize the importance of subjects like operations and may introduce it as a new specialisation. But would that be enough. Can you get the expert teachers? I mean what’s the point in having a Ferrari why you can’t drive it? You give it to someone that drove an ambassador all his life, he’s going to do some killing on the streets with that Ferrari. So better save people than killing them. Don’t put up specialisations, just for namesake. If you don’t have the faculty, don’t bother putting the subject.
That’s about it.
