Stick to Strategy: A small reminiscence of transition in motivating students
“We would be whipped and thrown into the basket of nettle plants in our birthday-suit. We would yelp out of pain. Our feverish puffed red body, as we walked out of the bamboo basket, would stagger. Your punishment is nothing, you are LUCKY!” As shared by elders to me about learning in school at their time, who were then dragged primary school student. Picturing the scene, it was gross and inhuman. It immediately attested that he was true while he said “you are LUCKY”. But when the next day dawns, though childish mind of playing “Am I right”, marble or walnut game would entice me to go to school, the thought that teacher would spank me drains away all the charm. However, I had to perfunctorily go. It seemed like Stick was the Answer to Everything: be there a disciplinary problem, a student who failed to submit his impositions or a reminder to be made, sticks would be used. Thus, though the elders saw me as a Lucky boy, when I actually entered the school campus, I knew