The role of an internship for students taking up professional courses
by C.Laldinfeli & Joseph Lalhriatpuia ‘People never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves’ said Paulo Coelho. John Keats also said, ‘Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced’. Learning and earning degrees should not be restricted to the classroom only. Before students earn their degree, they should be able to apply whatever they have learnt theoretically into practical usage. The Father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi said, ’Education should not be confined within the four walls of the classroom.’ Education is not merely just mugging up information and knowledge to score marks. Rather it is the practical outcome of what you have been learning in theories. It is important that students should be given chance to have practical training before they earn their degrees. An internship makes the classroom’s abstract theories and learnt examples concrete by placing the student in a real life work situation with real live co- wor...