Teachers Day

[krish44]

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Celebrating Teachers day on Sept 5 this year has landed into a controversy due to having Guru utsav - which the ruling party says is only a competition for

children and political parties in tamilnadu say is imposing of sanskrit on tamil people'

I do not relate much to this .

I would like to remember some of the teachers of my tamil school who taught me in delhi

In my first class I had an old brahmin lady who who was more of a mother than a teacher . then followed for two years by a person male I got really attached to.

I would feel happy carrying his bag from cycle stand to the classroom . He could teach ,sing,relate stories with morals and had a camera which he would bring out on

occassions to shoot our pictures. I got so attached to him that I could not bear to leave his class after 2 academic years

When I reached fifth class , I started having problems since I could not relate to my class teacher. she was a christian with a sense of discipline .moral right and

wrong and believed she was the most dedicated teacher . To maintain discipline she would make boys share school bench with girls so that there was less noise

in class,. there I got my first girl friend lol.

I dreadfully feared her. after a couple of months .I happily dropped out without my family knowing it

start for school and end up in nearby Birlamandir and return home at end of day . excellent arrangement .lasted more than a month but caught got ;

I came clean and said I hate the teacher . I was physically carried [ two of my brothers for foot and head] and dropped in my classroom with a thud.

my class teacher poor lady was stunned when told I was scared of her .she never forgave me or herself . she would keep saying how I had let her down by

complaining,,,

this fear of teachers continued for many years keeping a safe distance from them and remaining tongue tied in their presence .

I was very happy when my school days were over went to relative comfort and freedom of college life.

Many years later I met the teacher , she was old and frail . Still She cornered me on the roadside and gave me a moral lecture on how to live life .lol

I am an upright man man today only because of her . I also have to thank her for my first girl friend whom I met again in recent alumni meet and remembered old

days.lol

 

[renuka]

In my first class I had an old brahmin lady who who was more of a mother than a teacher .

Dear Krish ji,

Why is it you keep getting Ammas wherever you go?

Your teacher was motherly..your boss also motherly...why?LOL

If you ask me who I would like to remember among my teachers in school I can only think of 2 people.

One a Christian female who was acting Holier than Thou and was strict!

I hated her..I was aged 9 then and becos of her I developed a stammer in speech because I hated being in her class.

Only in the next standard my stammer went off.

I used to sit and stare at her hoping I could set her on fire with my eyes.

It never worked..she never ignited! But she used to complain that she was feeling hot whenever I started at her and asked me why I kept staring at her.

May be if I had concentrated more she would have caught fire becos she used to complain that she felt hot and it always coincided when I used to stare at her!LOL

Anyway I got to know some years back that her daughter grew up and painted the town red!

For all the strictness she forced upon us in school so harshly he daughter grew to be the opposite!

There was one teacher I liked when I was in 12th standard..she was very young a fresh graduate from University so there was only a few years of age difference and she used to be like a friend with us..she was very good looking and guys in class used to drool!

With us girls she used to tell us all her juicy stories on who chased her in college and which guy she met on plane and who tried to ask her out on a date when she was in college.

She was a very good teacher..I loved her classes and she made the whole class do well in exams becos of her teaching methods.

 

[krish44]

renukaji
now you know where my mother hang up came from .

now whenever I meet youngsters I am ready with a mother story.

Also tamilnadu is full of ladies who like to be called Amma .many also act motherly

In fact Amma is added to names of ladies who are slightly old so that nobody approaches them with evil intentions. this along with thaalis which are prominently

displayed
protects them from guys whose intentions are suspect,lol

 

[renuka]

renukaji
now you know where my mother hang up came from .

now whenever I meet youngsters I am ready with a mother story.

Also tamilnadu is full of ladies who like to be called Amma .many also act motherly

In fact Amma is added to names of ladies who are slightly old so that nobody approaches them with evil intentions. this along with thaalis which are prominently

displayed
protects them from guys whose intentions are suspect,lol

Dear Krish ji,

There are only 2 ways a female gets male attention:

1)when she is young and unmarried and a hot chick.

2)when she is married and old..she becomes smothering motherly.


Its all about attention..even men also play this fatherly game.

Once when I used to be on Facebook I had a friend's invite from an elderly person who had written a book on Hinduism and was actively promoting his book.

His books was fine and nice and daily people used to ask him questions and he used to answer and also asked me to write some comments becos he liked feedback from his "fans"

So I wrote all what I know about religion and philosophy and eventually I started having a following of fans in his page!Everyone seemed to like what I wrote!LOL

He got real mad with me and asked me to leave his page.

He said he opened this page so that ignorant young ones could look up to him as a fatherly figure and he did not need anyone "well informed" in his page.He said when he sent the friend's invite to me he thought I did not know much and would look up to him for info.

He said that he had to sell his book wanted to be the centre of attraction.

So I left his page as instructed.

Then I realized that most of people who are in his page are females who keep calling him Uncle!

So you see this old man he was playing the fatherly role for attention from females!LOL

Moral of the story: Beware of the Fatherly or the Motherly!

 

[krish44]

Dear Krish ji,

There are only 2 ways a female gets male attention:

1)when she is young and unmarried and a hot chick.

2)when she is married and old..she becomes smothering motherly.


Its all about attention..even men also play this fatherly game.

Once when I used to be on Facebook I had a friend's invite from an elderly person who had written a book on Hinduism and was actively promoting his book.

His books was fine and nice and daily people used to ask him questions and he used to answer and also asked me to write some comments becos he liked feedback from his "fans"

So I wrote all what I know about religion and philosophy and eventually I started having a following of fans in his page!Everyone seemed to like what I wrote!LOL

He got real mad with me and asked me to leave his page.

He said he opened this page so that ignorant young ones could look up to him as a fatherly figure and he did not need anyone "well informed" in his page.He said when he sent the friend's invite to me he thought I did not know much and would look up to him for info.

He said that he had to sell his book wanted to be the centre of attraction.

So I left his page as instructed.

Then I realized that most of people who are in his page are females who keep calling him Uncle!

So you see this old man he was playing the fatherly role for attention from females!LOL

Moral of the story: Beware of the Fatherly or the Motherly!

see.. men can also act young to get young female attention instead of fatherly

acting fatherly makes me think of only father christmas

another idea is to imagine all old ladies are young chicks and chase them lol. only the young will feel jealous of such oldies

who does not like attention young or old?

What works in life nobody knows


It is only a human trait

 

[krish44]

Going back to the subject of the thread

Some special types of teachers
! Missionary types
These are not actual missionaries,

These think kids should get moral education and are preachy types.

I had one hindi teacher wearing saffron and sporting beard and moustache talking about glory of hindu god and goddesses and relate stories from mythologicals

he was a fanatic and could trace hindu origins of muslim kings and invaders and believed in akhand bharat and spewed venom on some christian girl students to the horror

of all

he would give lectures on how to be a hindu'

He was a bachelor

suddenly he cracked up . he shaved of his beard and removed his moustache . He got married . he started looking like uricha kozhi

he lost his credibility and also fell from his high pedastal and became the laughing stock of the whole school

2. this Teacher was gentleman from kashmir , a displaced pandit who would talk about righteous living . his basic job was to teach english , but would spend most of his

time inculcating moral values. he tried drilling us on ethics , the right and wrong conduct and need to be truthful like M K Gandhi, and Harishchandra . He could induce

good sleep with his talk.

3 others - tamil teacher -not a preacher
He was a human being with a modern mind . he was a great story teller

He could start with the same characters in stories and end differently every time

he became a famous writer and a professor in college and was also a visiting professor abroad

he even got a padmashri.

the school had brilliant minds also as teachers

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Dear Mr. krish!

One favor deserves another! right?

So finally I entered a thread today!

Talking of the fear of teachers, I recollect two persons well known to me

who could give the creepy feeling to their teachers themselves! :scared:

One gave it to his school teacher and the other to his tuition teacher.

I think they also gave nightmares when those poor creatures were asleep

in addition to the creepy feelings given while they were awake.

Well it takes all types to make up this varied world.

My younger son used to sit near one girl named Jina -

the daughter of his own class teacher while in L. K. G.

When asked to sit with the boys he would say

"Naan Jina kittaye ukkanthukaren!"

 

[krish44]

VRji
Big thanks .
keep it up
post your memories regarding your teachers

you must have been a very obedient student

 

[krish44]

Dear Mr. krish!

One favor deserves another! right?

So finally I entered a thread today!

Talking of the fear of teachers, I recollect two persons well known to me

who could give the creepy feeling to their teachers themselves! :scared:

One gave it to his school teacher and the other to his tuition teacher.

I think they also gave nightmares when those poor creatures were asleep

in addition to the creepy feelings given while they were awake.

Well it takes all types to make up this varied world.

My younger son used to sit near one girl named Jina -

the daughter of his own class teacher while in L. K. G.

When asked to sit with the boys he would say

"Naan Jina kittaye ukkanthukaren!"

It suddenly rained in delhi twenty minutes back

now I know the reason . VRji has posted in another thread.I feel honoured

varuga,varuga enru koori thangalai varaverkirom.lol

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

VRji
Big thanks .
keep it up
post your memories regarding your teachers

you must have been a very obedient student

I was the right hand of most of my teachers and lecturers... all but my dear professor.

She could not stand my sight for being so cheerful, busy, taking part in all the extra curricular activities including Christmas Carols, and being one of the most well known students in the campus.

I did not fit in her image of an ideal student...one who must plod along heavy stepped, wear what was popularly called a as a soda-putti-kaNNadi and look at nothing and no one but the ground all the time.

But indirectly she made me a desperado since i had to prove my worth and I over took the best student (in her view) by an average 20 to 25 marks marks in the final exam.

At that time we were given grades like B, B+, A, A+, D, D+ etc.

A was 60 to 65 range and D was 75 to 85 range.

She secured A (first Class) and I secured a D (Distinction).

But the ranges were most in appropriate.

Higher we go the ranges must narrow down but they widened.

D+ can be anything from 85 to 100%.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

In continuation of post #7!

In those days teachers used to wear turbans and puncha kachcham to the school - Just like Dr. S. Radhakrishnan is depicted.

The first hero who was a nightmare to his teachers had the habit of
toppling the towering turban from the head of his masters
and pulling off from behind the kachcham of the panchakachcham.

I can visualize the master turned death pale, running in circles
around his table and chair - holding to his turban with one hand and kachcham with the other.

The only real comparison would be the poor Paanchaali in the Durbar during the disrobing by Duryodhan and Duschaasan.

The teachers COULD NOT complain since the father of the hero was a D.E.O and grandfather a great professor!

What a way to popularize the names of one's ancestors!!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The second hero was the spoiled child of a military officer.

He would not go to a school.

So the school came to him in the form of a tutor.

The hero has a solid figure befitting his name -

one of those of lord Vinayaka.

The tutor was another Mr. Nagesh -

with the same agility and resourcefulness.

He could do everything except walk on the ceiling of the room.

Everyday all his talents ad patience were put to test

and stretched to the newer and higher limits.

He needed the fees badly and had to put up with the taunts and teasing.

Money does not come easily - if the chuzhi on the head is a modern art.

 

[krish44]

I was the right hand of most of my teachers and lecturers... all but my dear professor.

She could not stand my sight for being so cheerful, busy, taking part in all the extra curricular activities including Christmas Carols, and being one of the most well known students in the campus.

I did not fit in her image of an ideal student...one who must plod along heavy stepped, wear what was popularly called a as a soda-putti-kaNNadi and look at nothing and no one but the ground all the time.

But indirectly she made me a desperado since i had to prove my worth and I over took the best student (in her view) by an average 20 to 25 marks marks in the final exam.

At that time we were given grades like B, B+, A, A+, D, D+ etc.

A was 60 to 65 range and D was 75 to 85 range.

She secured A (first Class) and I secured a D (Distinction).

But the ranges were most in appropriate.

Higher we go the ranges must narrow down but they widened.

D+ can be anything from 85 to 100%.

in delhi ,like all other places , science students are "padip types' scoring high marks taking admission in science honours and engg streams'

the least scoring types join plain BA pass followed by Law.

Law students were the most notorious excelling in extra curricular activities like dating girls, partying , besides participating in student politics and playing cricket . studies

were a bit low in their priorities .

however , many of them today are top successful people in cinema, politics and as lawyers

we have top lawyer politicians/ministers like kapil sibal, arun jaitley actors like shahrukh,amitabh who are delhi college products . we have not produced a single good scientist

worth the name from delhi

I have lost faith in our education system. those who do well in life mostly are not rated highly in academics.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

When we settled down in Coimbatore in 1994, I got many offers to teach the spoiled brats of rich parents. They were ready to send a car to pick me up and drop me of after the tuition and pay me heavily.

"NO!" was my only answer and the one word answer.
I have never gone to anybody's house for teaching.
Children always come to my place, learn and go back.

I did not need money that desperately to enter
unknown households and face unpredictable situations.

Was it a modified form of Agoraphobia?
May be! But it is better to be safe than to be sorry! Right???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

[h=1]Agoraphobia[/h]
Fear is an ancient and universal emotion in Man. Fear may be due to one of these two reasons: – fear of losing what we do not want to lose and the fear of getting what we do not want to get. Fear gives rise to two possible actions, Fight or Flight. When we are confident that we can handle the situation, we fight and when the situation looks hopeless, we take to flight.

Fear is accompanied by a host of disturbing symptoms like the flushing of the face, increased heart beat and muscular activity. The body prepares itself for the fight or flight. Some of our fears are inexplicable, unfounded, and irrational. These fears affect our day to day life very badly.

A systematic avoidance of a situation, leading to a fear, is called a Phobia. A phobia is a panic reaction caused by certain stimuli or situations in some persons. Phobia can be due to any reason, an object as small as a spider or one as large as a sky scraper.

Agoraphobia is the irrational fear of ‘Agora’ or the open space. In ancient Greece, this was the place where market was located. Though Agoraphobia is the fear of going to an open place outside the house, this may modify into other forms such as leaving the safety one’s house, traveling alone without a companion, being in the middle of a huge crowd and standing in long serpentine queues.

People, who suffer from this phobia, become anxious in unfamiliar surroundings and places on which they have very little control. They may feel trapped and insecure–away from the comfort zone of their home. Though they may not like to leave their house, they are delighted to receive the guests at the safety on their homes.

Agoraphobia is twice as common in women as in men. In general, Women avoid facing difficult situations and let the men folk cope up with these hardships and hurdles. Men who try drown their fears and anxieties in drinks and become branded as alcoholics.But women seek help for the actual problems and try to get out of their phobias.

The opposite of Agoraphobia is Claustrophobia, the fear of enclosed space. People who suffer from this phobia will fear getting trapped in a traffic jam, inside a lift cabin and in shopping places full of strangers.

Visalakshi Ramani

105. Agoraphobia | The wonderful world we live in

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

in delhi ,like all other places , science students are "padip types' scoring high marks taking admission in science honours and engg streams'

the least scoring types join plin BA pass followed by Law.

Law students were the most notorios excelling in extra curricular activities like dating girls, partying , besides participating in student politics and playing cricket . studies

are a bit low in their priorites .

however , many of them today are top successful people in cinema, politics and as lawyers

we have top lawyer politicians/ministers like kapil sibal, arun jaitley actors like shahrukh,amitabh who are delhi college products . we have not produced a single good scientist

worth the name from delhi

I have lost faith in our education system. those who do well in life mostly are not rated highly in academic circles.

I studied in a college the hostel of which was little better than a prison.
When my parents came visiting me I could not talk to them
until I got the permission from the warden but all my friend could! out:

 

[krish44]

I studied in a college the hostel of which was little better than a prison.
When my parents came visiting me I could not talk to them
until I got the permission from the warden but all my friend could! out:

did your friends jump over the wall to get out or bribe the watchman to get back into hostel

thats the method usually adopted in all colleges

you seem to have followed the narrow straight path of following the rules and getting hurt.

my natural instinct is to look for a loophole when I feel constrained and suffocated by rules and regulations.

When my son got rudely disturbed by a watchman near front gate of his college when he was with a girl , he picked up a fiight

I counselled him to use the backgate instead and meet his girlfriend there as there were no watchmen there and was not monitored .

Our TB boys are useless ,they do not know how to do the basics right.lol

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

did your friends jump over the wall to get out or bribe the watchman to get back into hostel

thats the method usually adopted in all colleges

you seem to have followed the narrow straight path of following the rules and getting hurt.

my natural instinct is to look for a loophole when I feel constrained and suffocated by rules and regulations.

When my son got rudely disturbed by a watchman near front gate of his college when he was with a girl , he picked up a fiight

I counselled him to use the backgate instead and meet his girlfriend there as there were no watchmen there and was not monitored .

Our TB boys are useless ,they do not know how to do the basics right.lol

My parents would visit me only in broad daylight - driving the car all the way to Madurai.

My friends can cluster round them and talk freely since they can always disappear if a sister (Nun) walks by.

But I could not do so when I am talking to my parents. So I will have get permission and then talk to them!

The only outing was a visit to the Meenakshi Temple once a year.
We would be lead like the L.K.G children in a single file -
each one holding on to the shoulder of the one in front.

But we were shown movies on Saturday nights...
Movies like The 39 steps and others which could give us nightmares.

 

[krish44]

you know VRji
after my daughter shifted only to a convent school [presentation convent in dehii] after 10th class ,her personality flowered

she participated in all pranks hoodwinking the nuns.

she had whale of a time bonding with classmates and participating in little mischiefs

her best friends are her school mates with whom she is in regular contact

they attended her marriage reception in delhi and behaved as if it was continuation of school days.

one bonds more with schoolmates more than those whom we transact with later in life

my tamil school has an active alumni which meets once a year atleast .We honoured teachers who taught us in fiftees in 2010 the golden jubilee year of our passing out . most of teachers still alive attended

were in eighties and shared their lifetime experiences with us

many students flew from abroad to be present for the function which coincided with 50 years of our passing out from school

a nostalgic get together .

Teachers so honoured were emotional at the gesture

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

I too have two faces ... one is saintly-good and the other is loottee-naughty!

My life in the hostel for 8 long years taught me many things!

They prepared me for my later life which was destined to be

what my father would have described as "looking-like-nothing-on-earth!"

We do random things and realize later they were meant for our own good.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Even now the G.C.T batch mates of my husband meet every year.

We have not been able to attend the latest three meets.

May be we will take part next year.

You know who could have been the life of the meet or the party???