8yr old Indian to become youngest lecturer
London, Jan 8: He is child prodigy. He may become the youngest lecturer of the world, if Guinness World Records recognises his abilities. Yes he is an eight-year-old Indian boy, who teaches adult students computer-generated animated film at Dehra Dun's College of Interactive arts. Now he has applied to Guinness World Records to recognise his achievement.
Aman
Rehman's
family
believes
that
he
may
be
the
world's
youngest
college
lecturer.
It
was
at
the
age
of
three,
when
Aman's
parents
became
aware
of
his
talent.
His
father,
an
illiterate
scooter-mechanic
who
supports
his
wife
and
three
children
on
60
pounds
a
month,
had
struggled
to
buy
a
second-hand
computer
for
their
older
son,
and
Aman
was
fascinated
by
it,
watching
his
brother's
every
move
on
the
cursor.
By the time he was three-and-a-half, he had mastered his first animation programme and made a film with dancing alphabet letters. Following friends' advice, his father took Aman to Dehra Dun's College of Interactive Arts.
Officials thought they were meeting older child and laughed when Aman's father told them the candidate was sitting in his lap, reports the Telegraph. However, after a week of intense lobbying Rehman persuaded the college to watch his child on a computer which convinced them to offer him a place.
Within five months he had written his own software programme. Aman knows how to operate 18 softwares. He has also completed his animation course in span of three months, which is usually completed by others in 15 months.
Aman said: "Whenever I am having holidays, I make it a point that I should work on computer for at least eight hours. And usually I work on computer for four hours because I have to complete my schoolwork also. "Presently I am making projects on black hole, aliens and water conservation."
ANI