One Day in Class...

This incident took place in the class when I was teaching my students a topic from DBMS which is called Entity Relationship Diagrams.

Entity Relationship Diagrams are also abbreviated as ERD. I taught them every thing from top to bottom in that topic and as this topic was mostly about making diagrams i wanted to test them on how much they understood.

When I took the topic, each and every time I had mentioned Entity Relationship Diagram instead of ERD. So when I gave them the question to draw an ERD, to my surprise all of them went blank as if I had said some thing they never knew. Then one student got up and asked "Sir whats an ERD??".

I got a bit pissed off in the beginning but then I realized that it was my mistake. I know how much a student trusts on a teacher and expect the teacher to teach them every small possible point.

But there is a sad part to it too. students these days are loosing innovation and the ability to apply logic. In general people don't want to apply their knowledge or think out of the box.

But as of Now... I also don't know the answer on how to develop these qualities in an student but one day i will definitely find a way to do this.