LEARNING TO DROP THAT TEACHER'S ROBE
“W hen the student is ready, the teacher appears.” Well, it’s very old and accepted. How about this one: “When the teacher is ready, the student appears”? Frankly, I believe, the second one is as old and as profound as the first one… Dare I say this: It may not be as accepted as the first one… but, certainly, it is more profound! Like all, I have been a ‘classroom student’ long before I became a ‘classroom teacher’. Today, I feel flattered – often get carried away – when hundreds of my students compliment me, wish me, praise me, glorify me on days like today – ‘A Teacher’s Day’… When many of them say that I had been their ‘Best teacher’… ‘Favourite teacher’ etc., I find myself smiling with a deep sense of surprise and embarrassment… It takes me back to my own school and college days… Was I a bright, brilliant, the Best student during any of those years? Far from it! Was I a favorite of any of my teachers? I don’t think ‘feeling’ so! But,...