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Whether crash courses are effective or not remains debatable, but advertising spaces in newspapers are spilling over with these courses. From children’s workshops, cookery classes to music and dance classes, you name a course and it is there. One of the most interesting courses I came across was "Art of keeping your servant happy". Times have changed indeed. Today it is not the servants who need to keep you happy, but it is we who need training to keep our servants in good humour. I also see potential in crash courses in making excuses. Today, children need hundreds of excuses to hoodwink teachers, friends, neighbours and, most important parents. If you have been all night in a disco, you certainly need a good excuse like, "I was at the disco to study high frequency audio waves with my boyfriend who is a master in physics." How to handle your mother-in-laws can be another wonderful short course for married women. Husbands can take a crash course in "How to maintain a smile while your wife is shopping". The only fear is that if the teacher is not competent enough, your child loses knowledge along the tuition fee. I asked my daughter who
had gone for a maths class. "Beta, what did you learn on the
first day?" She said, "The art of whispering in the class
without moving your lips." |
MY
friend’s 10-year-old son Sunny is doing a crash course in
etiquettes. My friend’s wife asked him, "Uncle ko namaste karo,
beta", perhaps trying to remind him of his first lesson.
Instead Sunny splashed water all over the guests by jumping over a
puddle of muddy water.