[nukkad] Teachers' Day...

[Asha Anand <>]

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Tip of the day:  A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, 
                 and makes far less money. 
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Hi Gang,

   Remember those school/college days? Those pranks,
   sports, competitions, exams blues, professors
   yelling for better performance, report cards that 
   looked so colorful!! 

   Some teachers who have made an impact on my life. 
   At school, we had a music master who had lots of 
   patience to teach us to sing. He had a dreamy voice
   and his guitar purred as he touched it. Absolutely
   fantastic! He face would always be so calm. Music 
   does that to people, I guess. I pray that his soul 
   rests in peace.

   Grammar has always haunted me. Sanskrit is not an 
   easy language and I had flunked in Sanskrit 
   language during the preps. My teachers were 
   surprised. Sanskrit teacher and me would not get 
   along well. She would always pick on me. She 
   asked me if I had a problem and the reason for my 
   bad performance. Obviously I had a big problem. I 
   told her that she scared me. I had lost interest in

   the subject. 
     After that talk, things changed and I never
   again flunked. The fact was that she liked me 
   and that was her way of expressing affection.
   People, I can never understand!

   Every week we had meditation class. Our Principal 
   would speak about life and works of great people 
   like Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, The Mother, lot 
   more. She would explain the meaning of the verses 
   in Gita and Vedas and its significance. Most of it 
   went right over my head. But it had a strong impact

   on my life. I pray, may her soul rest in peace. 

   College was total chaos. Few years back it was a 
   student-professor relationship. But now, its 
   friendship! Oh my good God! What all they speak 
   behind students' back! Never realized that a coin 
   had two faces. 
     We played a lot of pranks, harmless ones. I would

   like to share one incident that upset so many. Head

   of department, Physics, was a very nice, loving and

   aged lady. We were just thirty of us in the class 
   and the most famous too. "Oh, that class? Watch 
   out!", was the general expression. Well, one of my 
   classmates stuck a bubble gum on the chair in the 
   science lab. The chair was usually occupied by the 
   lab assistant, who was a jerk. The experiments were

   on light and that happened to be a dark room. Alas,

   our bad lucks. HOD visited the lab and she sat on 
   that chair before we could warn her. She was upset 
   and was fuming. She refused to forgive us and 
   suspended all our theory classes and no help in the

   labs were offered.
     Just two months for our exams and lots had to be 
   covered. Letting out the name of the classmate, 
   would never happen. We decided that each one of us 
   would prepare on a topic and lecture in the class. 
   Initially, we found it difficult. Half the time we 
   spent in the library and surprised the professors. 
   We topped! 
     Have liked all my professors. 
   Loved the college life! Most of us have dispersed. 
   Some still surviving, some dead and gone. That’s 
   life, folks. 

   That’s it… Happy Teachers’ Day. Hmm…wonder if they 
   are really happy about their day!!

Asha      
                           


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