I remember how much I hated the classroom experience during my Junior college and engineering college stint. Somehow, this made me feel that online education could beat the heck out of established universities some day. Amardeep Singh seems to have changed some of that with less than a few lines on his blog today :).

He argues that the classroom experience offers scope for a live debate and challenge that does not take place in an offline experience.

Looking back, I think this is infact something that I miss the most. But, would it not be hard to involve yourself in some geeky solution to some electromagnetic problem when there is so much back bench fun to indulge in ?! Despite all that, I still do recall some of my more animous teachers who built a more human face to technology and encouraged us to go talk to them about it. The rest of them essentially walked us through text books using a chalk and black board.

Nonetheless, what I worked on during my lab sessions stayed with me more than the long lectures that I sat through. This is despite the common impression among my friends that I am “the lion of theory & concept” and “the cat of implementation”. That speaks for something, I guess.