Making the Big from the Small...
The matter of inspiration for this writing was one of my
visits to my kid’s school. It gave me an unexpected opportunity to get a
glimpse of a grade I class during the class hours. Oh!! It was a pretty big
pandemonium there!!!! The chatterboxes were all doing a variety of things in
the class and the poor teacher was standing there teaching (read shouting :)). Some of them even
roaming about and there was this one tiny tot who managed to get out of the
class (presumably to the washroom) and back in without the teacher noticing...WOW!!!
– The scene said a lot of unspoken things.
Teaching, the noblest walk of life was always a passion for
me. Even from my childhood, I remember, I studied my lessons pretending to
teach others. Or when it was the exams, I remember teaching my friends though I
had not learned myself :P. In my dance classes, where I spent a majority of 15
years of my childhood, I was already teaching dance whenever my teacher was
busy. I should say this gave me a tremendous opportunity to explore my teaching
skills and that was when I realized my love for teaching.
Anyways as time passed, for appeasing a lot of personal and
financial goals, I had to fore go my teaching ambitions and landed up being a
software programmer. I should say I was totally unaware of what life had in
store for me……
19 Dec 2006, I got my own lifetime student: P and the life
time tests on my (highly accomplished) teaching skills started. It has been
like teaching, teaching, and teaching him whatever I can :P, and whatever ‘HE’ wants!!.
And now this little devilish creature is in his 2nd grade..., and guess what... I
have already started “NOT” looking forward to my teaching sessions… because of
just one reason - There I am passionately making my lecture, telling him
inferences and reasons, making him memorize and write, and my adorable student
sitting and asking me 101 questions of all the other things in the world and
his opinion on each one of them … SIGH!!!!! It is really a terrible blow to the
ego of “The self-proclaimed Teacher” in me…..:):):)
If this is it, with just one little student whom you know in
and out to manage…. What if you have to deal with a group of pixies at
one go??
This is exactly what the primary school teachers go through
day in and out (Not that I degrade the higher ones ... absolutely no...). But our society has
this bad way of evaluating a teacher by asking in what grade he/she is teaching
and if she says primary there is a pathetic “Oh...” sound following it. Qualification
is one thing but the value of contribution to the society also has to be taken
to account when we decide the social and financial value of any profession.
Primary school teachers definitely deserve much more
respect, dignity, and of course pay for what they are doing. Considering they
are actually laying the foundation for each of the children’s behavior and
conduct in the society and the pain they have to endure for the same, let alone
the pain for giving each of them personal care, we as a society are giving very
less or no credits to them. They are not just teachers as we call them but…
The Gods/Goddesses of very small arrogant, irritant little creatures called Children!!!!
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