No more a brick in the wall…

A rainy Monday morning, lush green campus, 96 steps to climb, “Syndicate 1” packed with future managers awaiting for their first ever MBA class – If all this sounds interesting , I am sure you will be much more fascinated to know what happened after this!

Clock struck @ 9 and it saw an entry of an innovator of learning, Prof. T Prasad. Soon some soft balls with globe printed on them were flying, a hen was making its own way on a slanting widget, a butterfly balanced itself on a tip of finger ; all these left me surprised in a management session.  Lot of Physics and engineering concepts were told behind this but it all lasted only till Dr. Mandi (as Prof Prasad is commonly called by this) introduced us with the whole new process of “Humara Dhanda”.

“Humara Dhandha” lays emphasis on opportunity cost which sums up our daily spending here. “Whatever we spend in a day, we have to earn it back” is the underlying theory of Learning by Earning. And soon, the whole class was seen proudly enchanting “Aaj Ki Roti, Aaj hi Kamaana”. The idea of selfless learning is to spread, what we learn by formal classroom teaching, to the masses.

From the expectations of typical MBA jargon and ppts, our class actually shifted to taking photographs along with understanding the real business of doing business. Soon Dr. Mandi called me and one of my friends upfront for selling a butterfly toy to each other. There I was experiencing my first exercise on the very first day and realized the intricacies involved in the buyer-seller relationship.

It was not the end here! Somewhere I could relate from where did Prof. get the inspiration for all this and it was a song “Another brick in the wall” by Pink Floyd. Sir made me realize that we are not here to be just another brick to be put into the wall. “Don’t be a wiper; it’s time now to be a car.” The session came to an end with a belief of having much more in store for us.

Finally my first day at college after a span of 2 years came to an end and it has given me enough motivation to start writing here what I learn in one of the best b-schools of the country. 

I quote the following lines here which I think best suited for the first lecture by Prof. Mandi.

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”  – Benjamin Franklin

               

              Prof Mandi in class

 Prof Mandi with one of my friend