Compulsion of attendance in colleges is a menace

Sounds rebellion ? Our education system is very conservative. It will take some decade(hope not centuries) before it becomes student centric.We turned eduction into profit making yet our students debarred from evaluating services. Just a few decades ago,Teachers words were final testament as books were were not affordable or were not easily available. Now there are plenty of books on a particular topic. To help further Google is there.

Our country is yet exploit the power of technology in the area of education. The day is not far away when books(paper) will be replaced by  electronic books and there central electronic depository for certificate. We have envisioned the concept of Virtual university ,I hope decade will bring a drastic change in education system revolutionizing the very concept of teaching.

This argument has been dealt with earlier.Please read previous posts.

Well if pointing out the mistakes of our elders is arrogant i m proud to be arrogant.I think instead of teaching respect elders,respect the right would go a long way in developing state of affairs in most fields including indian politics.When Mr kalmadi is commiting crimes costing crores of taxpayers money do you expect those younger to him to respectfully criticize him?That would be really insane.Anyway we are deviating from the topic.Still I would like to request to be less offensive henceforth.

Well Mr srinivas on what basis did you presume that I never ask any valid questions to my teacher.There have been several instances where the lecturer simply says we will talk about it in next class and also in the worst case scenario i also get 'do you think u r smart of urself?'.So as i was saying I think everyone here passed out in days where attending lectures was actually and truly productive.But the current scenario is not the same.

Makes no sense at all

Simple logic tells me that if i m smart and someone else is dumb we both would not have the same jobs.

We get a yearback if we dont fullfil the attendance norms.So how can we walk out?

I think, again you are not getting what i m trying to say.The current curriculum of many universities like vtu is not good enough to make you sit for 52 hours for a particular subject to score well in the same.I dont deny that there are people who do not the find the curriculum easy.But by making the norms optional you would be giving smart people a choice to develop new skills.Rules in our society should strive to achieve progress for the backward(intellectual) but not by slowing down others.

I think the argument is more about making the attendance optional.As in student allows himself to choose which lectures to sit in.Also enrolling in corresponding courses makes him lot difficult to be hired.If I ask myself what percent of the lectures i sit in has productive output i find it difficult to give a positive response and i m sure many others feel the same too.

In most Indian engineering colleges,students are forced to attend a minimum of 75%(85% in some cases)of the classes.Whatever is the objective behind such a rule, the harsh reality is that it's a utter waste of time for most of the students.Attendance should be made voluntary so that only those people who need it attend.All the students attending degree colleges are adults and as such know/must know  the consequences of their actions(whether attending/not).Whereas it becomes much easier for other students who find it unnecessary to attend lectures, to pursue other interests whether academic or otherwise.