Confessions of a retired teacher
Teachers and Students - 2016 This is the 12 th and last of a series of posts I’ve been writing on education. Forgive me if this sounds more like a rant than all the pedagogy that the previous posts carried. As I was contemplating this personal note this morning, the first person that rushed to my mind was P. I presented her at some length in this very space last year. Right now she is an assistant professor at the Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), NCERT, Delhi. When I had my catastrophic encounter with her in Delhi, she was running a teacher training college in Delhi. She entered my school in Delhi to kill it and convert its 20-odd acres of land into parking space for a godman whose devotee she was. Perhaps her greatest achievement in life is converting an excellent school into a godman’s parking lot. P was an educator and a religious person. One would expect a lot of goodness from such a personality. What I and hundreds of others in Sawan Public School Delhi...
