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I’ve been a teacher on & off and have taught things to a wide range of people (from class 1-4 students in a village near Pondicherry to Communication classes to much older folk), but every class felt new & different. I had my first taste of taking a formal class for MBA students today, & I felt kids were more receptive to new ideas & more excited about stuff than these guys. They were more fighting skills (and looking at their watches skills) than in who said/did what or some new concepts in management. And for the first time I realized what a lousy student I was (since college was the last thing I attended, some bit of classroom is still recollectable). I read somewhere that the Head of Templeton (if I remember right, that head had no hair on it) calls himself a career student. Wish I could do the same. As a faculty, we expect our students to either know a lot about what the class is about or nothing at all. Anyway, I tend to show off (this is the truth) my skills in whatever I am teaching, without realizing that not too long ago, I was on the other side wishing the teacher would shut up. What has changed - NOTHING. I still know myself to be an ignorant bufoon, though I have to act knowledgeable, I still have so much to learn & I am dreading the moment when one of these ’students’ of mine would ask a question of which I know nothing. We used to call teachers names, ridicule them & try our best to embarras them; now the role has reversed. I don’t know what names these ’students’ are calling me, or how they are criticizing the way I teach, but then God is very kind. He does not allow us to peep into other people’s thoughts, the only thoughts which we can peep into are our own. Still I must battle on. I must try to pass on what little I know to others in a way they understand. Hopefully I would get a feedback, saying I wasn’t as bad a teacher as I thought myself to be. My fingers remain crossed.

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