Teacher’s Day: Forty Years in the Classroom
My First Colleagues in the Profession - Me back row 2nd from left A few months back, I received a phone call from a student whom I taught at St Joseph’s Convent School in Shillong in the early 1990s. She’s now mother of a grownup boy who works in Kerala. When she came to Kochi to visit him, she remembered me. I was quite excited when she recalled certain happy moments from her schooldays of which I was a part too. A teacher’s true reward is such remembrance by former students. I became a teacher purely by chance. Because I couldn’t find a better job, to put it bluntly. I had failed even as a hotel management trainee. A friend helped me find the teaching post at St Joe, as the girls called their school fondly. Having majored in math with physics and stats as subs, I took up the job of teaching math and science to high school students. The fact that my first students were all girls helped. My immature and egotistic nature was reined in by the charming smiles all over. I grew ...
