OUR LOVED ONES DON'T WANT US TO BE COMPLACENT IN LIFE
Pic.: Madan Manik L ast night, the mother of one of my students called me up from Kuwait. She wanted to know how her son, who studied under me here in Mumbai, was doing. “Ma’am, I see a lot of improvement, since we last spoke,” I said to my student’s mother, “Don’t worry, he will do well.” “But, sir, I don’t want him to become complacent,” the lady said with genuine concern, “He needs to be pushed and prompted all the time.” “Oh yes, I agree with you ma’am,” I laughed, “You prompt him; I will push!” No matter how badly my students do, and no matter how hopeless I, sometimes, might feel, I somehow try not to put more stress on the parents, make them more anxious. What I do is, that I try my level best to influence and motivate the student him/herself. Improvement is a continuous process; and, as a teacher, I am aware that the students need to be constantly reminded, constantly sensitized and ‘pushed’ to the process of improvement… For, ...