Tuesday, February 16, 2010

My thoughts after reading “Leonardo Da Vinci’s resume”

My cousin Shilpa, sent me an email of “Leonardo da Vinci’s resume” you can find it in http://marketing-jobs.theladders.com/career-newsletters/leonardo-da-vinci-resume. After reading Leanardo Da Vinci’s resume Duke did not have any choice than to hire him. The most important thing here is that da Vinci is very confident of his "skill sets", so he has come out with such a wonderful resume/CV/bio data/profile/whatever.
I was impressed to say the least and then some thinking led to these observations:
Wouldn’t History classes be more interesting if similar examples from the past were used? Which would of course make students love the subject than make it a dull and boring session where students are more often than not are caught napping in the last benches or playing book cricket.
The students would learn the art of writing in history class along with what they learnt in English class, or in fact they could consider this as an “Application” or as an example for whatever theory their English teacher would have taught them.
What better than to learn how to write a resume in one’s high school? Maybe, then very few people would go to consultants of the job portals to get their resume “written”.
Help students think of bigger things in life than the next unit test where they had to vomit all those "Dates and Events" and arrange them in Chronological order!
Big thinking would naturally get the better out of students and they would set bigger goals in life than clearing competitive exams by mugging, cramming or going to the coaching centers, we would get better professors, politicians, teachers, lawyers, scientists, engineers, doctors above all better human beings.
Then history could have been taught without a teacher, but really a teacher that is history/life!
Would this have not left an indelible impression on the young minds!

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