A teacher's tale

Leaders squabble over the age of the members, but not about their status as students.

I am often struck by the jargon "students' wing'' when political parties glibly use that in their organisational discourses. This term has become part of the common parlance and an accepted component of the hegemony of the political parties like workers' union, farmers' organisation, youths' wing, young communist league and so on. Every time I hear the term students' wing of a certain political party, I feel uncomfortable because in such reckless use of the students' organisation, I see a deep-seated problem. I feel that such processes will deeply defeat the very purpose of education. As a teacher, I would see students as those people whose main goal is to seriously engage in learning. To accomplish that they take up certain courses at the university or other educational institutions, and complete them within the given academic calendrical time. They will be known as educated people when they come out after completing the courses.