I thought I was smart in terms of understand complex concepts, deeper meanings, hidden meanings, implications. I thought it was because of my own effort. But I’m realizing I shouldn’t be so deluded.
I didn’t know it then, but the hard nosed teachers who corrected my homeworks, single grammatical error at a time, wrong or poor understanding of texts, shaped my mastery over language and daily comprehension of everything from books to speeches. That time I would get mad at having to redo, but little did I know that these teachers were preparing me for greatness and genius.
Those teachers had the patience to go through every single word and sentence and judge the paragraphs, evaluate each line of logic or equation. Truly this is a great act, it’s a tradition that has enabled knowledge, correct and exact to pass on to millions through generations.
I have failed to give gratitude to all my teachers. The most influential ones were from english and nepali. Math teachers inspired me to repeat the same problems and derivation until it was like second nature.
I hated some teachers because they belittled my work that I thought was great but, it is their constant disapproval of my work and higher expectations that gave me this passion for excellence that in my forties I’m carrying.
I was lucky to have such fine teachers, one better than the other from school to college to university. Teachers at uni taught me what’s real professional hard work. They were so distinguished professors, master of their topic.
Of course some weren’t great but they tried.
The meagre fees we give can’t compensate for the passion good teachers instill in us. But I realize today, teachers must be paid very well so that they can give full attention to the students.
Children are the future. I too was a child and when adults said that I was confused. Was i a child or the future? Then when I would grow up, would I be the future or the present?
Nearing forty I realize that I am still not the future my teachers used to infer, but I’m getting closer. Many of my peers must have forgotten that they have become that future and something must be done.
we can’t let our teachers worry about money because that will make them less focussed on our children.
In the schools I studied teachers were paid well and their was prestige to help. I was lucky.
I wish many more students had such opportunities to good education but when I meet them at uni or in the work place, they are gone cases: poor grammar, poor math, lack of comprehensive power, poor deductive and inductive skills, and worst inability to read books.
Most adults will stop reading books after their studies. It’s like stopping to eat after reaching adolescence.
Today also I read fifty pages in average per day along with thirty minutes of hard exercise.
I feel alive as a result. Without that routine, I would be dull and fat.
If you could ask a gift to god, ask him the ability to read infinitely and comprehend perfectly, and apply the essence. Truly that will make you rich and famous, or simply happy.
I had a solid foundation of education. But it’s more than literacy and degrees.
It’s gaining the correct frameworks on which to base life.
