Category: From Teachers’ Notebooks

Heal thyself…

On this Teachers’ Day, this teacher appeals to everyone involved in education to reduce the superficial celebrations that take place this day every year in schools and instead asks everyone students, teachers, administrators and others to look inside and think about where education has reached in this country.

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You can do it…

We have often heard of this saying, ‘Try, try until you succeed’; despite several odds this author tells his readers how his determination and perseverance helped him achieve his goal.

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That rainy day…

An incident in this teacher’s life helped her realize that just because she was an adult and a teacher it didn’t mean that she was more mature in life than the students she was to teach.

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Cream biscuit

In every teacher’s life there will be instances when the students they are meant to teach end up teaching them. This writer narrates one such instance.

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The real test

The best teachers are those teachers that can be friends with their students. Here is an incident of how a friendly teacher helped a student overcome his fears of math.

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