Thursday, December 6, 2007

Will I teach again???

The answer to this question is very unfortunately " I DON'T KNOW "!!!!! :(

Today is my last day as a teacher. I have really enjoyed this very very noble profession. I also strongly believe and have experienced the fact that teaching isn't a one way learning, but is a mutually learning and sharing experience between the student and the teacher. These 18 months teaching the labs for ECE 194 (Digital Logic Design) at Wichita State Unviersity have taught me a lot!!! It has made me a public intellectual.... It has made me understand that a problem has many solutions...... and also that once you have the confidence you can help a lot of people.... I have taught three batches of students so far..... In each one of the students I saw a different person... different attitude... different approach and different way of learning.... oh my my !!!!! GOD indeed has good sense of creativity. We have laughed together, learnt together, fought on issues, discussed about life, economies, entertainment, engineering.... the list is endless..... The way I have been addressed are many.. My parents just gave me one name.. but my students..they christened me over and over... "Ma'am, miss, teacher, TA, Harini".... and I love them for this....... I have students from different countries, different cultures, different tongues, different ages, some even as old as my father .... but what I see common in all of them is they all are very friendly, inquisitive, most have the drive and urge to learn, they are excited over small new things they get to make in the lab, they work hard at work and school, hate exams, hate me when I don't give good marks, and love the student life they are enjoying... sometimes it makes me so jealous about them.... they are still students.. no big responsibilities..... care free life.. whilst once we graduate...u r "BIG" and have to be responsible... I love student life and my students.... and I always wish, hope, pray, long, desire and throng to go back to my student life....... If not at least in the next "few"years, I will go back in the near future to school and get to be a STUDENT.... but this very very noble profession which has been running in my family's blood is indeed the "BEST" profession in this whole wide world..... it is it was and will be the most noblest service one can offer to mankind.... I revere and bow to all the teachers in this world who are responsible for this rapid growth.....
TEACHERS...... YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!