In academics strangest things happen. Like the wildest sighting of a professor jumping over a pool of stagnant water on road in wild belle style. Just that you don't happen to be the first one to witness a rare once a day time occurrence. The catchy part about this professor was his style of dressing, talking and of course behavior. The first time a particular course class was attended. An another professor talked a lot of great stuff about a man. Man was first in his field and had to his credit a second best operating system in world. Only glitch ? system doesn't work. A good mathematical algorithm for computer multiplications which could not be implemented/integrated as no one could understand it. Professor has the highest regards for this man .. an another professor and it was a great once in every year opportunity for this man to repeat his speech apart from fooling a bunch of aspiring kids. And then came the interesting part of introducing this man. Soon, there was a boyish oddly dressed character strolling to the board wearing a cap bearing a distinctive mark of Chicago Bulls. Suddenly there was an instant noise ....... a burst of laughter.
These two professors were to offer two different courses in that particular semester. The interesting observation at that time was the missing acknowledgment from the Bull man. May be the first one did not deserve credit!!
Anyway, .... Mid through the semester fist one conducted exams and gave a few set of questions. Interestingly enough in a class of fifty folks, 49 answered it in one way and just one in another. Needless to mention that 49 got the marks and one didn't. Hearing remarkable speeches over the past couple of weeks from professor, this boy was bursting with confidence to prove a point and took the answer sheet to discuss with man of role model. The conversation starts as follows :
Boy : Sir, I think this problem looks okay.
Sir : You mean I'm wrong ?
Boy : No sir, I meant, the solution appears to be correct.
Sir : You mean I have given marks to all the folks who did it wrong ?
Boy : No sir.
Sir : Then what do you mean ?
Boy : Sir, I meant if you could look at it once ?
Sir with anger : No, I know what the problem is and I have solved it myself. You tell me if I'm wrong.
Boy : quite
Sir : If you still think that problem is correct then go to any of the folks who did it rightly and understood that how to solve a problem and then come back and explain to me if thats wrong.
Boy : Sir, I don't know if someone did it correctly.
Sir : Except you, everyone did it right and now go and get someone to explain this to me.
Boy : Sir, I'm not sure if I can bring someone here.
Sir more angry : Comes out of room, shouts at everyone and picks one guy and assigns him the task to find out that who is wrong. This boy or him. Also marks a red mark in register against this boy to make sure that he returns to clarify that how dare he challenged his authority.
Boy 2 : Why have you got me into this issue ?
Boy : I didn't ask Sir if you may like
Boy 2 : Okay, lets discuss ...
Boy : fine ....
After a few discussions its clear that Boy is correct and Boy2 and others who got marks have not handled the problem, but then who would bell the cat ? Boy 2 asks for sparing him somehow!!
Well, Boy decided to go back to Sir.
Sir : You're back
Boy : Yes, Sir and I'm sorry. I looked more in details and found that I didn't understand the logic correctly and so handling is incorrect.
Sir : Hmm ... so now you understand that how to do it correctly ?
Boy : Yes, sir. I do. I apologize for the logical error.
Sir is happy and relieved that eventually this foolish boy learnt a lesson and also at the same time appreciative of the fact that he has acknowledged his mistake and takes Sir in high regards. He taps the boy on shoulder and gives a moral lesson :
Its okay to make mistakes and be wrong at times. But the most satisfactory part and attitude is to logically sit down and analyze the issue. The great character of a man lies in acknowledging his mistakes and amending them.
The only audible statement boy could make was, Thanks sir for the nice and kind words. I was foolish enough to be logically incorrect.