What to be and What not to be !!
I have been a teacher all my life! Almost 18 years now! My greatest inspiration has been my dad! I would like to have qualities like him at least even if I can't match his intellect! To me he is a symbol of "What to be" as a teacher!! There is no second opinion about his being a great intellect! But the other qualities that he possessed made him a very special teacher! I remember this one day so well! He came back home from his morning session ( he never took the afternoon sessions due to health reasons ) for lunch and he seemed pretty excited and he told me that there was this one very intelligent boy in his class from engineering background who had shown him a short cut method for some problem in International Finance being handled by him! Much later when he passed away, in one of the tributes to him, the students said that many a time he could be seen learning even from students from the Math’s department if he had some doubt in complex Math’s concepts! He was proud of...