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Learning from India’s Student-Teacher Dynamic

The gurunath lies within the grounds of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Madras, the largest city in southern India. The beautiful name means teachers village. Here students can buy chai, Indian tea, or bread for two rupees or three rupees. The area is usually crowded until one or two in the morning with students appeasing their hunger and endlessly talking, debating and discussing. There are gurunaths at prestigious Indian universities all over the country, such as the University of Delhi, and the atmosphere is always the same. Few people anywhere like to debate more than Indian students, it seems.

Not long ago I had a chance to talk with some students at IITs gurunath, and we had a lively discussion about IITs competitive edge. During the discussion, the words guru and shisa popped up. Kumar used them when his classmate in the electric engineering department, Mittal, mentioned something. Kumar meant that he had learned from Mittal.

Guru and shisa mean teacher and student in Sanskrit. The IIT students said that the culture of guru and shisa is one of the secrets of Indias students, who are said to be the best debaters in the world. The words were coined in the process of teaching and learning the Vedas, the sacred texts of Indias Brahmanism. The concept is slightly different from teacher-student relationship we understand. In India it refers to the way students learn from their teachers by discussion, rather than just a unidirectional, teacher-to-student passing of information. Its one of the strong points of the Indian education system, and it works far better than the simple cramming method

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