Sunday, January 20, 2008

The story of a professor

The two stories about life, this story is about a professor who once wrote a very famous article and he wanted to present this article at the various universities around the US. The university where he mentored provided the professor with a chauffeurs driven car to take him to various places around the US to present his article. The chauffeur had no other work so he would go inside the conferences and listen to what the professor had to say. He went around with the professors to a lot of places around the US. One day the professor asked him "how do you like my lectures". The chauffeur asks "Sir, do you want to know what i really feel". The professor said "sure, go ahead". SO the chauffeur explains the professor "what you speak is just a repetition of what you said in the first lecture, its so easy to deliver the lecture. after attending so many of your lectures even i can give a lecture now." So the professor says okay "next time when we go in for a conference you be the professor and i will be the chauffeur" The chauffeur agrees to this proposition.

In the next presentation they interchanged their roles and the chauffeur repeated what the professor had said in every presentation. The presentation went good and even better than the professor. Everybody applauded his skills and the theory he proposed. Then it was the question answer session where in a professor asked him a question. This guy was flustered but maintained his cool and replied "What a silly question, even my chauffeur sitting in the end can answer this question". So the professors comes in and explains the concept. :)

This story was given by a visiting prof in response to the following
"There were four groups in the class and each had to give a presentation on a case study.Each group came and presented, when the last group was to present, teh group leader said that everyone has covered the points so we have nothing to say". To this the professor replied the above story

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