We come across many teachers every day in our years of schooling. Our encounters with them gradually become
ordinary and insignificant as we progress in our careers. However, I believe
that our teachers deserve admiration and gratitude for what they have done in
influencing us as students.
There are many great teachers who have made an impact on my life. Most of them have been kind, hardworking, and patient, and every quality a good person should possess. They appreciated me and motivated me to help in my life. They were the epitomes, and watching them, taught me and has definitely impacted my life to be patient, caring, and empathetic. Today, I’m glad that I have had such a wonderful teacher who made an impact on my life.
I have by now understood that a good
teacher requires a good ability to give his lectures to his students; his humor
and a vivid teaching style bring into school life by a teacher with this kind of characteristic. A teacher with humor can not only enhance the relationship
between students and teachers but learning and studying can be a fun and good
thing. And a teacher with humor can make students pay more attention in the
class.
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| Five Dons of AIMS |
To pay my respect and homage to my
past and present teachers, I have briefly described (having nothing to do today
as such) my present batch of professors. The views below are purely
personal expressions, and they may not be true always. They are my afar observation
and do not intend to hurt anyone explicitly or implicitly.
Mr.
Prabha is as humorous
as his looks. I think he was a Charlie Chaplin in his previous birth. He imitated
exactly like Charlie’s walks once in a class. I remember that. My first
intuition of Mr. Prabha was callous and harsh. As every now and then he throws
up unwanted remarks like “foolish,” “useless,” and he has always negative sides
to very positive sides. Gandhiji was great ‘BUT’… Your answer is okay ‘BUT’… And
there is always ‘BUT.’ I think his half portion of mind is filled with that ‘butt!’ He
tries to argue Derrida’s critic of criticism - one of the head-breaking theories. I am afraid he does that successfully. He is not an easy guy to fight
with. Last time, a talker of the class argued about something (I can’t
remember exactly) but his cogent arguments made his face as red as a ripening
apple.
Mr. Prabha is the most reliable
teacher in the college. He follows his daily plans precisely and sincerely but
he can be sometimes as careless and mindless as he can be. I don’t know why. He
would talk and talk and talk on the topic, sometimes as useless as the topic
itself. He would, I would say, cleverly watches every individual, especially
girls…hahaha. He knows who has understood or who has been listening to his
lectures. Mr. Prabha has also presented himself as a scholar of other subject and
areas. He is kind of a jack of all trades. He, not only teaches us American
literature, he also teaches us Post-Colonialism, Literary Criticism, Gender
Studies, but he himself has confessed that he cannot teach Linguistics and
grammar and such. I think he is well-rounded in his own way. Just as teachers
love well-rounder students; I also admire a teacher who is well-rounded in all
areas.
Mr. Prabha, you are the teacher who
can stir or shake the milk very well. We understand your lectures better than
we (I) can understand you. You are a great critic, but (I use your word) try not to
de-motivate with the negatives beliefs of your own understanding. I personally
like your personable way of cracking a satirical joke and asking rhetorical
questions to brighten up the atmosphere. Life is a mixture of great varieties,
both positive and negative. Thank you for that.
Mrs.
Mamta is another
all-rounder professor. She is very pleasing to the eyes of the beholders. Her
demeanors are as elegant as she is. She would say “Hi” if you pass by her. She
is good. Truly good. I would like to sum up madam: you have the best qualities
that a human being should possess. Last time, my friend who is in another
department told me how good that you were to him. I feel lucky to have you so
that I can instill some of your good values, habits, works, etc to my
students…Oh no, before that I have to instill myself first!
Mrs. Mamta is sometimes humorous,
especially when she contorts her face after hearing some remarks from
students. She has a habit of folding her hands and resting her hands on her hips in a typical manner and making her face in a comical way. I like it. She
wears colorful traditional Saris most of the time.
Mrs. Mamta has also presented
herself as a scholar of other subject areas. She is kind of a jack of all trades.
She not only represents English Department and fights on behalf of it, but also
teaches us American literature, Post-Colonialism, Literary Criticism, TELL, and
even tried her hands in teaching how to answers the questions. She works very
hard. I have seen her textbooks with so many colorful marks and so many papers
notes in-between the textbooks. I think
she is also all-rounder, just as teachers love well-rounder students; I also
admire a teacher who is well rounded in all areas.
Mrs. Mamta, you are the teacher who can speak eloquently. Your sweetening speeches and presentation thrash and crash all difficult topics. Thank you, and thank you for giving concern to every
individual.
Mr.
Samuel is a lost
guy from the college. If you are looking for Mr. Samuel, one must come before
everyone wakes up. He would be there in the college for a very short time in
the morning. He would have vanished for his evaluation for months. And when he
comes back, he would open his mouth and make a very big ‘O’ and bulges his eyes
with a great surprise. He has a great sense of fun within him, and he throws
out often in his limited time in the class. He looks very intelligent and kind
of high-class as well as a high-flyer. He looks great when he wears his
spectacle.
Mr. Samuel is a very friendly
person. I know that. He speaks in a superficial way but his words are full of
meanings. He is very trimmed, a kind of brief loving person. Some lectures
are as succinct as topics. He takes it easy. Life is not that easy, Mr. Samuel.
His first semester and second-semester teachings were far better than the third
semester, Linguistics. I think he is dwindling, and I am afraid he would not
even turn up in the fourth semester. Let’s pray.
I think this is not his fault; the fault always goes to the administration
for not giving us proper class for many lecturers.
Mr. Samuel has a lot of knowledge.
He knows. He is confident. Only recently, I chatted with my classmate that he
has the potential to be the best teacher, given the chance. Anyhow, you are
already one of my best lecturers and models. There is somewhere in my mind
asking me to book your ways. Only some people can affect. Thank you Samuel for
your impact.
Mrs.
Parveen has so many good qualities, such as
tolerance, kindness, sympathy, empathy, etc. And I most admire for these. I
have not seen many teachers like her. She has been trying her level best. Her
teachings were well organized and arranged in the first and half of the second
semester. She used to have prepared well and presented well with the help of a projector. I don’t know why, the third semester has been tiring teaching for
her. Like Mr. Samuel, she also is busy with evaluations and cannot catch her
even with a spy trap.
Mrs. Parveen sometimes treats her
master students like elementary students. She scolds and bullies for no reason.
She catches a stick and threatens students, which becomes a sort of a joke. Many students
hardly listen to what she says, and because, a few listens to her, there would
be a small remark on her at last. The big mouth would complain of her saying
that she has not taught and provided any notes to them on the topics.
Mrs. Parveen is as worried as her
students about the exam result. She would poke her nose in the exams, clear
some doubts, and disappear. All of us smile at her goodness. But for this third
semester, the subject TELL has become a real HELL to some people, especially
those who have not attended classes and those who have taken very easily on her
lectures in the class. No worries as such; it all talks about the method of teaching
and some mechanisms of teaching. I myself have not even lifted any Xero papers.
I have decided to look at the topics and bluff on the paper. That’s it. I
shared this happy news to one of my friends yesterday, and guess what he said;
he limped high and said, “Let’s go to the party.” It’s party time Mrs. Parveen.
Don’t worry too much about your subject and no need for poking inside the hall
this time. This time we have to drag Mr. Samuel instead…hahaha. We will do it, madam. Thank you for making us (me) do ourselves.
Mrs.
Chitra Das Gupta is a dolly and jolly lecturer. She
left us in the middle of the semester leaving us in a rolly-polly mood. Now she has
left us, I don’t feel like writing. I don’t understand why Critical subject
teachers should be out of the ring. Now she critics us from a long distance. She
has a huge knowledge of English, and I respect her.
Mrs. Chitra has a peculiar habit of
making hush-hush business. I wonder sometimes whether it is her hush-hush
things that she is not seen around the college. She dares to do it in front of the
class. She would keep her palm hand on the side of her mouth and whisper to a certain
group of students. Don’t whisper madam, even walls have ears.
Mrs. Chitra was a great teacher
except for her repetition. She would sit and mull over some lines again and
again—most of the time outside the topic. Her favorite lines were, ‘Twinkle,
twinkle, twinkle, little star…” I remember she would repeat these lines not
less than three times in a class. Her examples sometimes were very limited to
this twinkle rhyme and her family lives, especially of her husband. I miss you
madam, and I think your husband is doing good.
Mrs. Chitra was a generous woman. If
I have something to miss about her, I will miss her sweet Ladoos. She would
bring Ladoos and other sweets once or twice a week. I regret now, I ate her
sweets and had nothing to give her back. I understood after that how good is sharing.
Thank you for sharing; sharing criticism as well as Ladoos. I have learned to
share.
Teachers have the very
important responsibility of shaping the lives of impressionable learners. With
this responsibility comes great pride and joy. Therefore, all teachers should
strive for what can be considered to be a “good teacher.” A good teacher can be
defined as someone who always pushes students to want to do their best while at
the same time trying to make learning interesting as well as creative. A
positive or negative influence from a teacher early on in life can have a great
effect on the life of a child.
