Some movie link featuring a marathi actor Vrushasen Dabholkar took me back to good old days in Ahmednagar- to Dabholkar Sir, (Indian Dumbledore, with his flowing white beard). Dabholkar sir is my father's childhood teacher, our family friend and a father figure. It feels great to visit his home and get his blessings. Was wondering if today's teachers have the same love for their pupils, and whether pupils have the same respect towards their teachers.
My Dallas roomies and I were chatting about the role our teachers have played in shaping our lives. A roomy told that her 1st standard teacher had called to wish her luck for her 10th standard public exams. I had also got a call from our school Principal, Mrs. Pai, on the eve of my 12th std. public exams, another turning point of Indian education system.
We roomies unanimously thought that language teachers were among the best teachers we had. A roomy reasoned that its because language teachers can teach about diverse things and inculcate appreciation in us. All of us had excellent maths teachers for engineering entrance exam coaching classes, and all the Universities have a renowned Analog Designing Professor.
Family is my 1st teacher. Mom, for everything, for inculcating the love for books; granny's passion for maths and languages; bro's support and dad's uncannily correct perspective. Kudos to my swimming coach who used to throw the 3 yr old kid in 25 ft water sans floats- today the streamlined shape is attained reflexively per stroke. Language teachers - Mrs. Ballal in MIT, Mrs. Bayas in Abhinav, my Sanskrut and English teachers (who were generally our class teachers), and the most favourite teacher of all the pupils of Abhinava Vidyalaya- Inmadar teacher. History teachers, Mrs Damle, and Phule ma'am who never restricted history lessons to textbooks..Mrs. damle once gifted me Diary of Anne Frank. Primary school math teachers Mrs. Kulkarni, Chitnis Sir who encouraged mental maths :) School sports captains, who taught volleyball, perfected marching and encouraged throwball. My brother's Science teacher, Mrs. Akolkar who bravely faced life even with an amputated leg......
We all share a concern if the coming generation will be lucky enough to get teachers like ours... amen!
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