I am 17 years old with 5 yrs teaching experience. I am perhaps world's youngest English professor. I wish to create a history in teaching. I wish to teach teachers how to impart knowledge entertainingly without burdening the student's mind. I wish to bring back the dignity to this profession. I wish that a learner should respect his teacher. I wish that India should be a knowledge hub of the world. Students from all over the world should come to India for quality education. I wish that people should give more importance to KNOWLEDGE because it's the real power as well as ASSET of a person. And I am doing my best to convert my wishes into reality.
I apologize for writing so many times "I" in the following text . I started my schooling in the year 2000. Not trying to boast, I would say I was a brilliant student who was a victim of bias. My pedagogue and principal were acquaintances of the class topper. In our tuition classes whenever we competed against each other I always outstood him. But in schools during the exams his grades were always higher than mine. I sensed some prejudice that was against me.
My skills in painting and craft were appreciated in the entire school & society. I even helped my class in painting. Yet I scored a C-Grade in painting while my most of friends scored B-Grade and the top scorers got A-grade. The reason-1. Anger or Revenge against the complaint made by my father about a teacher who wrongly punished the students and lazed around in the class instead of teaching.2. The top-ranker’s mom being a friend of the school-head. That infuriated me but I tolerated it. In those days I used to attend the lectures of my dad therefore I befriended many youngsters elder to me. From them I learnt that a person needs to struggle a lot to get employed even after studying for so many years. Many even do undeserving petty jobs. Then I even came across abundance of newspaper-articles about unemployment. They said “All illiterate people are employed & many of educated and qualified people are unemployed. That set me thinking.
When I completed my second standard I left school. But I started missing my friends. I rarely talked with boys of my aged fearing, what I would say about my studies?. During that time I used to study with graduates at my dad’s classes. Next year I joined the school again as a third grade. Now I felt that things had changed with me. I had matured more than my friends. I was better in my studies than I was previously. I mingled more with the boys elder to me than those equivalent to me. Many a times I got opportunities to teach my class, my friends. I kept studying till Fifth grade. There I scored 92% marks as my result.
The month was April when the vacation began. During that time my dad started a branch of our institute in Vapi , So during the vacation I tried my hand at teaching. We also had faculties over there. So with them I started teaching. After a month a day came when I had to handle the whole institute on my own as the faculties were absent for a day. There came my first student who was attended by me only . He was a thirty-five years old manager of a company in Daman. He talked to me and agreed to join the class from the next day. He came and brought the fee Rs5000/ with him. I received the amount from him. It was a big thing for me as I had earned a huge amount of money on my own.
He appreciated my teaching. I taught him whole-heartedly and in return I got a gift from him at the end of his course. During that time a lady who was educated from Bangalore joined my dad as a student. Many a times I used to compete with her and I turned out to be scoring as much as her. One day I even taught her. So like this I taught many students. Thereafter I left my schooling from the next year.
My real {practical} learning started when I started teaching with spontaneous interest. I wish to learn from everyone I met. I believe that every individual has some sp. information with him/her. Let me learn from this open university i.e. our world.
I apologize for writing so many times "I" in the following text . I started my schooling in the year 2000. Not trying to boast, I would say I was a brilliant student who was a victim of bias. My pedagogue and principal were acquaintances of the class topper. In our tuition classes whenever we competed against each other I always outstood him. But in schools during the exams his grades were always higher than mine. I sensed some prejudice that was against me.
My skills in painting and craft were appreciated in the entire school & society. I even helped my class in painting. Yet I scored a C-Grade in painting while my most of friends scored B-Grade and the top scorers got A-grade. The reason-1. Anger or Revenge against the complaint made by my father about a teacher who wrongly punished the students and lazed around in the class instead of teaching.2. The top-ranker’s mom being a friend of the school-head. That infuriated me but I tolerated it. In those days I used to attend the lectures of my dad therefore I befriended many youngsters elder to me. From them I learnt that a person needs to struggle a lot to get employed even after studying for so many years. Many even do undeserving petty jobs. Then I even came across abundance of newspaper-articles about unemployment. They said “All illiterate people are employed & many of educated and qualified people are unemployed. That set me thinking.
When I completed my second standard I left school. But I started missing my friends. I rarely talked with boys of my aged fearing, what I would say about my studies?. During that time I used to study with graduates at my dad’s classes. Next year I joined the school again as a third grade. Now I felt that things had changed with me. I had matured more than my friends. I was better in my studies than I was previously. I mingled more with the boys elder to me than those equivalent to me. Many a times I got opportunities to teach my class, my friends. I kept studying till Fifth grade. There I scored 92% marks as my result.
The month was April when the vacation began. During that time my dad started a branch of our institute in Vapi , So during the vacation I tried my hand at teaching. We also had faculties over there. So with them I started teaching. After a month a day came when I had to handle the whole institute on my own as the faculties were absent for a day. There came my first student who was attended by me only . He was a thirty-five years old manager of a company in Daman. He talked to me and agreed to join the class from the next day. He came and brought the fee Rs5000/ with him. I received the amount from him. It was a big thing for me as I had earned a huge amount of money on my own.
He appreciated my teaching. I taught him whole-heartedly and in return I got a gift from him at the end of his course. During that time a lady who was educated from Bangalore joined my dad as a student. Many a times I used to compete with her and I turned out to be scoring as much as her. One day I even taught her. So like this I taught many students. Thereafter I left my schooling from the next year.
My real {practical} learning started when I started teaching with spontaneous interest. I wish to learn from everyone I met. I believe that every individual has some sp. information with him/her. Let me learn from this open university i.e. our world.
3 comments:
Wow, you are so impressive. I'm 15 also and I would love to have the knowledge you do. I'm rooting for you.
:)
You may be teaching English but you still need to read a lot to improve your language skills and become really proficient.
you might be teaching english, but your grammar needs alot of polishing...at some points its outright incorrect!!!
like someone once said, "It is better to be humble than misunderstood"
-gypsy
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