Class Lecture Vs Dialogue

I have been teaching a couple of topics in Retail Management for close to 5 years now. I do this at a couple of B Schools and what an experience it has been....something I would never want to give up. I enjoy sharing knowledge and I also enjoy students doing the same. Learning then becomes a shared and effortless process.

This has also reiterated my belief in self-education. All the topics thatI teach are things I have learned on my own - building up the knowledge first through my experience working in retail and then acquiring knowledge and keeping up with the business info. The analysis, understanding comes.....

Whatever be the case, the maximum learning in a classroom happens with dialogue. There are lectures too - but they are open and in effect are actually conversations in themselves or encourage conversations....

This probably also rules out what is traditionally referred to as class discipline. Just like self education, there is no discipline like self discipline. Of course, in India students find it difficult to jump into a college from a school just because of the stark difference in approach and the difference in expectations out of them. While at school, she is treated like a child, suddenly there is the onus of everything - learning, career etc on her. So, at times there is an imbalance. best to encourage self learning from childhood and then see it become pervasive all through her life.....