Dreaming of Bollywood-like Colleges? || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Movies and Books || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Hyderabad (2022)

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00:00If there are movies that equate engineering colleges with fun clubs then what the result will be?

00:06An entire generation of youngsters will opt for engineering thinking that the place will be simply a laughter club

00:15or chill out with the friends, hang out with girls, that kind of opportunity.

00:19And that's not going to materialize. And then there will be frustration.

00:21Engineering colleges, management colleges, all kinds of places,

00:24whether you are talking of professional education or education in humanities,

00:28they are all great places to be in.

00:30I think being in a college campus, especially as a hosteler, is the best part of your youth.

00:35It really builds you up. It transforms, it metamorphoses the child into the man,

00:41the caterpillar into the butterfly.

00:43But obviously not in the way pop fiction or pop movies demonstrate.

00:47So one has to have some maturity to understand that fiction is fiction.