Why mugging isnt all that BAD.............

I have just made a statement. i bet anyone wd love to hang me for this.

All my life I have been committed to waging a never ending battle against mugging.

and now a sudden change of heart. why? that too after a real torture last 3 days trying to mug the legal aspects of business, i shd never have made this statement. but i still do.

lets define the field of industry for this mugging. perhaps that will help present the real picture of what mugging is all about....

what is it that ppl hate abt mugging....the transfer of contents from book to brain....without any wherewithal to understand and assimilate the info that is under transfer.

right. i agree. fully agree. but is it possible for any of us to survive without a bit of mugging in life. i bet no. i am ready for a debate.

we start our life by mugging A,B,C....Z. the first 11 ( 0 to 10) numbers in mathematics. the maths tables. ppl wd say we understand math tables. i say no. first u mug. no point if u dont mug, u cant do calculations in mind everytime when urgency is reqd. the school history civics stuff we do....we unknowingly mug. but then that becomes our knowledge base. how many disagree with this?

once i tried teaching the math tables logically to my sis anusha when she was in 4th i guess. i was in my engg 2nd yr i guess. i taught her innovative methods of generating tables on her own. sudha chithi trusted me that i will fetch her a gud grade in maths.

i ws shocked. my sis got 48/100. after my teaching. i knew for sure she was a smart kid. that i had a real problem communicating things to her. the day before, i taught her all these eng grammar stuff etc, and she scored some 46/50. so there was a problem. she told me that she got confused with my method of generating tables. she cud have mugged as well. and for the first time in my life, i was actually responsible for pulling down the performance of a decent student, with my psycho teaching methods. does not work everywhere.

even the guys who prepare for CAT, mug all the squares upto 50 or 100. mug all fractions from 1/2 to 1/30....so that they deploy them directly in the test.

what about greatest of engineers mugging lot of basic formulae. wd u want to get even a basic formulae from a text everytime? how many texts will u carry wherever u go? will ur google be always with u?

lemme take the legal aspects of business (LAB) course. mugging was painful. agreed. to give an idea....here goes the typical definition of a consideration in the legal context:

when at the desire of the promisor, the promisee or any other person, has acted or abstained from doing anything, acts or abstains from doing anything, or promises to act or abstain from doing anything, such an act or abstinence or promise is said to be a consideration....

sucks isn't it??

i remembered all my school days as i set out mugging the whole stuff. whats worse, in legal parlance, there is so much complication that makes all teh more painful to actually memorise.

but frankly my feeling is there is a positive fallout of mugging. u retain some info atleast when u r forced to mug. i doubt if i had an open book exam on LAB, i wd never have actually read the stuff. just blind copying the text. agreed, focus shd be on application to practical cases. but it pays to actually remember these definitions....not everytime will u need a book to get back to analyse things u read in newspapers....like those ambani episodes had a lot to do with company law and MoA, AoA etc....when u remember stuff, it will gud studying those articles in dailies and mags. everytime u wanna apply, u must not be searching for a book....theres a limit. but u have ur own discretion of what actually pays and what does not....and mug accordingly....discipline comes the hard way. Newton's first law. every body remains in its state of inertia or of uniform motion unless it is acted upon by an external impressed force. hey! i mugged it well in my class 11. now tell me if some one asks u this law and u say i dont remember....it will sound funny. yet another thing why u shd remember it in the first place. but i hv just given the reason. mu mugging helped me use the law in this blog......well this is just in a lighter vein............

we mug slokas. okay sometimes thro listening to cassetes and all. ultimately we mug. but when do we feel the slokas? when we recite it ourselves. and feel it in the mind. and every time we utter a sloka, we simultaneously consume and contemplate the meaning of the sloka.

and the cine songs. ppl search for lyrics and mug. why? is it not painful then? hehehe i do it all the time.......

agree u hv to understand things. thats taken for granted. but still mugging helps.....we store info on the hard disk rather than on a pen drive when we require the info frequently. is not mugging talking in a similar vein?

and these great quiz crackers? okay these guys accumulate info gradually. but they do mug. can u understand that Nuku Alofa is the capital of Tonga? u mug. as simple as that.

mugging is not easy. but it is not so detestable.

not everyone thinks so. for those who disagree, when was the last time u mugged without any external impetus???? just becoz it was going to pay u....think....