Sunday, April 08, 2007

Back benchers vs Front benchers

I know there are both first benchers and last benchers reading this blog. Then where comes the difference? I am pretty much sure that while people from first bench would read this post after i have mailed them that there is a new posting in my blog and tell them to take a look at it while the back benchers would have already completed reading it through feeds.

I got the idea of writing on this issue from a private channel which aired a program on this issue called "Neeya? Naana?" meaning "You? or Me?". It had people from both front and bench and back bench discussing on what they liked and not. Was happy to hear that gals liked boys from back benches than from front bench.

While front bench students believed strongly that a classroom is meant only to study back bench students argued that there is more in life than just study study and study. They strongly believed that you can learn more if you enjoy more. There were three teachers who were present in the show who were asked what kind of students they liked? One teacher said she liked people from front bench while the other two agreed that students from the back bench impressed them more. They also mentioned that the classroom is lively because of the back benchers.

The program was concluded rightly by the host by saying these lines " While many front bench people fail to learn what life has in it to teach them a few back benchers fail in life itself". I strongly believe that what you learn doesn't depend on whether you are a first bencher or the last bencher. It is never true that only people from first benches would come up in life and back benchers always lag behind. Remember our own president Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam was a back bencher.

So why is there a differentiation in the minds of students based on where they sit? Why does first benchers dislike the back benchers and viceversa? Students should think on this and make sure that the classrooms are meant for learning with some fun involved in it rather than developing hatred towards each other.

My wish would be to develop a classroom with only middle benchers and no back or front benchers. Front benchers should try to learn to enjoy life and learn what life has in it to teach while back benchers should try to make sure that their life is not funny for others and they should still continue to enjoy learning but should not over do the enjoying.

Now come give your comments on what you think of this issue and don't forget to mention whether you are a front bencher or a back bencher so that i can have a study on how many front bencher or back bencher do read blogs.