… so goes a quote, anonymously posted, that I discovered in my casual stroll through the WWW yesterday! I was totally captivated by it, and immediately shared it where it would reach a wider audience, especially those who have the taste for the hatke. Obviously, Facebook 😀
In the comments sections, produced herewith, with the help of a screen shot(click to enlarge pic 🙂 ) is a telling reminder of how much fun it is (Leenuka 🙂 ) and how we can even discover new species in our adventures 🙂 (Abby!)
Ok 🙂 So that may not show up clearly, but I so liked the responses from two wonderful people I know there- one of whom is an awesome teacher I look up to, and am a big big fan of! Abby 🙂 (((Hugs)))
Doing a post for Teachers’ Day is also getting to be a tradition too for this blog 🙂 This in 2010, and this one last year. What more can I add? I guess enough to make me want to write something.
From way back, in school, I’ve always loved Teachers’ Day 🙂 The day when Teachers were not teachers, and the fun we had with student teachers! How, on that day, our Teachers were ever so charming, and approachable, and how we could take liberties with them that day…. 🙂 Times have changed since then, of the perception of a teacher in class.
Teachers are not just approachable now, but I guess more vulnerable too 😀 You don’t really know what’s coming at you… either child or parent or the Administration! That is only the tip of the freaking iceberg that keeps growing, global warming in the teaching community notwithstanding! (And I am not even going to go into the fiscal aspect at ALL :D). And still, no matter what, I love what I do. That is enough for me 🙂
This is not going to be an organized and neatly compartmentalized post, let me warn you, before you get too deep in here. This one is a lark, a happy lark, singing to itself, a paean to itself 🙂
This is a tribute to the teachers who shaped me, and made me look at myself as a being with potential. I know for sure that what I am is because of them! It is not for nothing that Henry Adams wrote of teachers:
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. “
I know I still do things today because of something or other that has influenced me, in my own days as a student in college, or in school 🙂 We all do, I think! More so, when we rebel! 😛
Yesterday, during that stroll through various quotes available on the net, I did discover a few that I do want to share today 🙂
A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well grounded” ~ D Martin
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself 🙂
Teachers touch the future.
There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown
(in this case let me make it April, May, and 10 days each during August-September, and December!!)********
This particular post as I have already mentioned is a dedication to my own teachers from school, and from college, and one particular awesome teacher from College – Dr Shoba Venkatesh Gosh (She used to be Ms Shoba Venkatesh in college 🙂 ). Early this year, when I came across a search term, with her name on the dashboard of my blog, I made an effort to google and find out more about her! Was very very elated to make contact through an organization called SPARROW, to discover she is now a Professor of English at Mumbai University! Woah. Made my day, entirely… 🙂 Went back to being the adoring kid in her class, and wrote out an email, an adoring email, of course to her… a part of which I have shared below! Well so much for being a teacher 🙂 I’d rather be her student any day!
I quote from the my email (dated March 7, 2012) to her: “The other day, while writing in another of my rambles on my wordpress blog, I mentioned your name, as someone who has been an all time inspiration in life. And today, while going through search terms on my blog, I saw your name, and immediately decided that this had to be the day I would delve deep into the virtual world for traces of that memory, and see if I could find you, however virtually.
To wrap up, here’s the song (lyrics in the description area) from the film “To Sir, With Love”, iconic as far as inspiration for teachers go :); sung by Lulu, years after she first performed it for the film itself, in which she acted, as one of the students. Evergreen inspiration!
Happy Teachers’ Day to all those who, each day, knowingly and unknowingly are part of the teaching process… so that is ALL of you 🙂
4 Spetember 2012, on the verge of 5 September, 2012
Teachers’ Day 🙂
September 5, 2012 at 12:26 am
I know one thing I am what I am because of the pains taken by my teachers. And I know they had to work very hard , I was such a nalayak student.
So thanks to all my teachers , hopefully in times to come I will be able to make them more proud of me.
I did start my career as a teachers in a school but life had other ideas.. So here I am in uk 🙂 ..
I have been so lucky to have some lovely teachers, it was such a great feeling to go back to school and meet them all and the best was thwy remembered me inspite of me cutting my hair..
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September 5, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Bikram, thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences here! Happy Teachers’ Day to you too… 🙂 for the fact that however briefly, you have been part of the process 🙂
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September 5, 2012 at 1:51 am
Discover wildlife – be a teacher! – i Lovvve it! Perfect and so also all the comments that followed on your FB – must have been a riot!! 🙂
Thank you for being who you are and touching so many lives with your guidance and smiles!! You picked up one of my favorite quotes about teachers – “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well grounded”…. Indeed.
Thank you to the teacher’s who provide the spark to their students and at the same time ensure that they are well grounded! 🙂
a bow, a salute and lots of gratitude.
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September 5, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Salute to you too, for always being encouraging and sharing of yourself 🙂 Thank you so very much!
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September 5, 2012 at 7:20 am
Loved your tweet “”A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” ~Thomas Carruthers”
A very happy teacher’s day to an awesome teacher!!
And I always found English teachers to be my favorites in all my schools.
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September 5, 2012 at 8:27 pm
IHM, thank you so much! I do remember your writing in here, how much you liked your English Teachers! Has been the same for me too 🙂
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September 6, 2012 at 8:53 am
Count me in on that as well.:)
I still remember my English teachers in the most fond manner. They were absolute gems. There’s something about those who love the arts I suppose. The way they view the world. Don’t know what it is …..
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September 5, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Happy Teachers’ Day! Loved all those quotes. Proud to be a teacher.
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September 5, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Bindu, wishes to you too! Thank you 🙂 Proud to know you, a wonderful teacher 🙂
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September 6, 2012 at 8:54 am
mwah! Happy Teacher’s Day Ushus:)
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April 2, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Indy 🙂 Wishes to you too 🙂
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