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That's what I call those organizations which use fear/humiliation to keep the employees in check.

I met an ex-colleague yesterday. He shared with me instances when his 'seniors' tried humiliating him. Everything has a reason. Why were they trying to humiliate him? Because he shares his points based on certain books he reads and certain concepts that he's come to understand. Almost every time, the common refrain is that they (seniors) have more experience than him.

What's experience anyway? What makes experience – as quoted by the person using the word – the only right thing? It's the interpretation of experience is what is termed as 'experience'. Two music-buffs can draw two starkly different experiences standing side by side in a rock concert.

Is experience a function of age? Is it a function of spending years in a certain area? Partly but not really. It's a function of exploration and number of experiences. It's a function of speed and experimentation. It's a function of initiative and curiosity. Where does age come in all of this? Of course, even if you don't do anything and age your life out simply sitting and observing things, you can be said to have experience. Indeed then experience is all about age (though one still needs eyes, ears and minds open).

The truth is that if employees choose, these headmasters can easily be given the same treatment. In fact, Internet gives employees so many tools to mass-humiliate the headmasters that the latter could have a real hard time dealing with them.

Besides, headmasters need to understand that there's stuff beyond what they've seen and read. So they had better take care while instructing.