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05 September 2018

On being a teacher

In India we commemorate Teachers' day today.  In a way it is a beautiful tradition of acknowledging the role of teachers.  Guru devo bhava! Mostly it is children in school and may be some colleges where they felicitate the teachers.  But it is also a day when everyone remembers atleast some of their beloved teachers.  Some make it a point to visit or call them, even though the student-teacher term is long over!  Just goes on to show that one can never really measure the impact a teacher can make in the lives of the students - for good or for worse. 
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
[Henry Brooks Adams, historian in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)]
On such an occasion, am ending the day laughing away at a forward I received...
Teacher: John is climbing a tree to pick some mangoes (Rewrite the sentence and begin  with 'Mangoes')
Student: Mangoes, John is coming to pick you.
Truly it is not easy to be a teacher! 

1 comment:

  1. The essence of another joke that was doing the rounds on Teachers' day:
    Somebody calls up his teacher on Teachers Day to thank him for everything and says, I am what I am because of you. The teacher replies, "Don't blame me; I tried my best." :D

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