‘Magar Shaam Hi To Hai’

Am a diehard optimist. A teacher is. He won’t go to a class unless he is hopeful – of the future. This is why the students in our Department are the VVIPs. I am inspired by Dr Zakir Hussain. He was asked “Why you respect these young kids so much?” He replied, “I am an old man. I will not be alive when they will become big and will earn high positions in the society and earn big names. I will not be alive to respect them at that time. So I am respecting them now, instead.”

 

A friend of mine suggested that motivate your students to dream big. Ask them to aim at becoming CEOs. I said yes. Then I said no. Because we don’t want them to become CEOs. We want them to become what we have never imagined of. One of them, Sana Shakeel Kalsekar, shared the following:

Good teaching is more about giving the right questions than giving right answers.                                                                             

- Josef Albers

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.                                                              

- Edith Ann

Sana Shakeel knows English language far better than I do. And we in the Department are humbly proud of it. She, however, is not the only one. I want to learn something every day from my students. Because I don’t know how else can we shorten the “ghum ki shaam”.