A WEED IS BUT AN UNLOVED FLOWER
“You can cut all the flowers; but, you cannot stop Spring from coming.” - Pablo Neruda I s it important for every parent to place an unshakable belief in their children? And, is it important for a teacher to do the same? I have been both, a parent and a teacher, for many, many years. And, from the other side, I have been a child and a student for a period even longer than that… Thus, it gives me a fair sense of authority to answer the question: “Yes, it is!” But, then, there seems to be a fairly-wide gap between what we all think about this issue, and what we all practice… My parents and teachers had difficulty ‘fully’ believing in me… So, regularly, they voiced their concern by shouting and screaming, but, with the hope that it would set me right, bring out my best. Yes, at hindsight, it doesn’t look like a good way of parenting or teaching, leave alone, an ‘ideal’ one… And, today, when I have switched my r...