'Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.' #SwamiVivekananda
An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it.
This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme.
Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium.
Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over.
Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent.
A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for.
Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing.
The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.
@saranstm Agreed , all competitive exams should have option to appear multiple times . Students should waste a year for missing or failing in exam . Doesn’t make sense
I think Govt should take this as an opportunity and come up with long term plan regarding education system reform in our country starting from putting cap on education fees , developing high quality teacher . It has to be center-state effort.
Good to make NEET online and implement all best options to limit possibilities of leakage .
What we lack is law enforcement, anyone can get away at grass root level if he has contacts . That is the hard truth.
However center can set guidelines , and set an example.
I haven’t spent much time on specifics of this issue . What are your thoughts ?