My teaching career is full of interesting experiences. I wont boast that I am a good teacher but I certainly tried to be one. Teaching was to me never a profession but always a vocation. I never tended to look upon the students as a number in the class. They were human beings,period. A class was at all times an interaction with human beings for me. It may not be obvious but I made concious efforts to know some thing about the back ground of each student, his likes and dislikes, his interests and so on. I planned how I go about teaching the class coming next.. What questions to ask, whom to ask, how he is likely to respond, and how I am going to tackle it. I planned the lay out of what I am going to display on the black board and things like that. Since my preparation for each class was centered on the students in that class and the topic to be covered, I never felt any monotony in teaching the same subject year after year.. The students would naturally change and so would my approach.. So every class is a new experience.
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You have no idea sir, how much I recall your classes. While I was your student (I still am!) every class of yours made me feel that the sky opened up for me, providing a clear display of stars beyond, a mesmerizing display! It was truly enjoyable for me, and laid the foundations for a mature thinking pattern within my own mind. And now when you just described how meticulously you prepared for each class, it doesn't surprise me. Great works are never impromptu; even where people perceive them as spontaneous, there could be behind it, a preparation of personality of mind, probably hidden to the actor himself!
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