More On The Tourist Professor

This article is dedicated to profound comparison between behavioural patterns of a Normal Professor(NP) and a Tourist Professor(TP). After a careful observation of a TP in our college (which is arguably the only reasonable thing to be done during his lectures) ,we have come to realise that there are some major differences in the two kinds which set them apart.
This is a sincere effort to list'em down.

1.Motive of coming to college:
A NP comes to college to take lectures and educate young minds. A TP comes to college to do timepass (interestingly,even short form of timepass is TP) and roam around in the campus .

2.Entry in the class:
A NP enters the class,rubs the blackboard,revises the last lecture in a few minutes and stats off with the lecture.
TP enters the class,spends a few minutes in necessary rituals like taking an apparently pointless round of the class,then closing the door,then taking another round and asking senseless questions like "Howwaz your weekend?" or gossiping about other professors before remotely showing any interest in starting the lecture.


3.The lecture:
NP gives a lecture with clear concepts and in a knowledgeable manner. If a doubt is asked, he takes an effort to solve it or else refers to a book.
TP's lecture is a simple dictation of paragraphs from a book. The idea seems to be,' why complicate things with explanations and knowledge when a ready made book is available'.
He would rather draw a diagram and then sit on the last bench for 15 minutes and read the book and decide which portion to dictate.
In case an unwitting soul asks a doubt,he would shamelessly say "It's given in the book" or "do a google search". Taking an effort to solve a student's doubt seems to be a fruitless waste of time when he has better things to do like taking another tour of the college and gossiping.

Also,for NP,completion of syllabus is a major concern but TP is free of any such senseless burden of responsibility. He teaches small,easy fractions of each chapter and recommends a book to refer for self study of everything else.

4.Practicals:
NP would start a practical session with explanation of the topic of the session in detail and the logic if programming is to be done. He would keenly check if every student is able to perform the practical.

Again,TP has rid himself of any such responsibility. His usual methodology is very simple. He enters the lab 10minutes late,writes the topic of the session on the board and gives the all important insight on the topic by saying "Do a google search and submit it next time."
After this,he has spends the next two hours in doing the most important things for a TP, Chatting with friends on gtalk from a Lab computer or talking on cellphone or else,taking another of those rounds of college for reasons unknown.
He would cancel a practical session if Internet connection is not available in the lab.

5.Paper Checking:
NP would check the papers with a concern for correcting students mistakes,so that they won't repeat the same mistakes again. He would discuss the answers in the class.
But a TP doesn't indulge himself in any such activity. He rather gives 70-80% marks to everyone who has drawn enough diagrams and written on enough pages of paper. If someone asks a doubt about his score,he would frankly answer "Marks badhane ke liye answer padhna padega yaar." and leave. The student ofcourse wouldn't mind bcoz he's scored already much more than deserved for most of the answers.

6.Image In Students:
NP has a clear and respectable image in heart of the students.He would be a source of profound knowledge to them.
TP is the source for timepass and comments due to his classroom behaviours like getting stuck in the middle of the lecture and a hundred ways of wasting time so as to extend the lecture upto an hours slot. He is also a source of a good term work score because he awards too many marks to students in order to masks his lack of knowledge.


As you must have observed,the only observable similarity between a normal professor and tourist professor is his post and his salary.

Now why does a tourist professor exist or is tolerated by students is a topic of research.Is it because they are afraid that even if they complain,the college will take his side or at most,give him some instructions but he'll hold a grudge against complaining students?
Or is it because of the free termwork score that they get from him?
Or is it because his behaviour is soothing on the background of other khadus or shouting professors?
More importantly,why does he take so many tours of the college? What does he get out of these tourist activities?

Whatever be the reason,tourist professor is here and is a prominent source of entertainment in the otherwise boring college day.