"You have to earn bread with the sweat on your forehead"
Recently our department conducted a one day work shop on thoracic surgery. It was a very useful program especially for residents. Since our unit was the main pillar of the program I was in charge of the audio visual co-ordination on stage. Well the nothing but collect the power point presentation from the presenters before hand and load it to the main computer ( that's my Angelina Lignocaine ..lol ) and maintain the continuity of program.
So after the symposium residents were approaching me to copy the presentation. I have also done the same thing so many times, copying and saving stage presentations. But the when I think back, these thinks seldom become useful. Most of the time they get pushed back and back to some corner of the computer and never ever opened.
Even if some of the presentations are opened and read they wont add much to the knowledge. It is actually the knowledge of the presenter that is imparted to the audience and the presentation as such does not give any advantage. Only time when a Power point presentation has helped me is when I prepare it. Then I know what the resources are and the idea conveyed in each slide.
So when I see this people roaming around collecting Power points, It comes to my mind
"Knowledge has to be earned with the sweat on forehead" There is no way to acquire knowledge other than the hard way and knowledge is converted to wisdom by experience.
In this occasion I also remember how I started my presentations. The first one was in the anatomy hall, with hand drawn charts. By the second year we used to have Projectors and OHPs. And gradually came the era of computer presentations, bulky projectors and power points. After all I still feel the control you have when you present with a marker in the hand on a white board is the best one.
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