Children’s Day and Teacher’s Day
I can’t believe how days are running this fast. I still remember when we celebrated children’s day, and our teachers during my school days. Now Abigail is getting ready to celebrate such occasions.
I really enjoyed such events in my school. In my school they allowed you to be free from wearing the school uniform on children’s day [also, on the next working day of Deepavali and on your birthday]. We loved to show-off our civil dresses to our friends. Then we would arrange a meet and culture program and intra-school competition and whole day is fun-filled. I respect Pandit Nehru’s thought, and thank him for giving us a reason to celebrate. I am proud of him.
Parallel to Children’s day, Teacher’s day is also celebrated – to celebrate the birthday of former President Dr. S.Radhakrishnan . I also enjoyed the teacher’s day while in school. The entire student batch would arrange the function. We conducted many competitions for the teachers. Generally, the musical chair is the unanimous choice - it is easy for the teachers to play, can be arranged soon and did not require many props. I adored my favorite teacher, and usually prayed for her to win. The musical chair competition was so fun that we all clapped hard and made fun of the teachers who were walking either very fast or very slow. Those were ever green days.
In my opinion, teaching is one of the best professions. We can always mingle with the youth. It also refreshes our mind as we see happy and eager faces in the mornings. I have been impressed by my many teachers, so much so that if I didn’t find any friends to play with then I would play teacher and student game. In these imitation-games, I would be the teacher, and I would be my own student, and in my class I would be the favorite and popular teacher! I still remember the quotes of one of my teachers: “Younger the students are, better are the chances for teachers to mold their minds. A direct co-relation is that in the earlier grades/classes students listen more to their teachers, and hence score more marks. But as they go into higher grades/classes, they don’t want to listen to the teachers anymore; they start having their own minds – they want to experiment, try out on their own and learn their own lessons. Respect for the teachers diminishes with time.”
I really enjoyed such events in my school. In my school they allowed you to be free from wearing the school uniform on children’s day [also, on the next working day of Deepavali and on your birthday]. We loved to show-off our civil dresses to our friends. Then we would arrange a meet and culture program and intra-school competition and whole day is fun-filled. I respect Pandit Nehru’s thought, and thank him for giving us a reason to celebrate. I am proud of him.
Parallel to Children’s day, Teacher’s day is also celebrated – to celebrate the birthday of former President Dr. S.Radhakrishnan . I also enjoyed the teacher’s day while in school. The entire student batch would arrange the function. We conducted many competitions for the teachers. Generally, the musical chair is the unanimous choice - it is easy for the teachers to play, can be arranged soon and did not require many props. I adored my favorite teacher, and usually prayed for her to win. The musical chair competition was so fun that we all clapped hard and made fun of the teachers who were walking either very fast or very slow. Those were ever green days.
In my opinion, teaching is one of the best professions. We can always mingle with the youth. It also refreshes our mind as we see happy and eager faces in the mornings. I have been impressed by my many teachers, so much so that if I didn’t find any friends to play with then I would play teacher and student game. In these imitation-games, I would be the teacher, and I would be my own student, and in my class I would be the favorite and popular teacher! I still remember the quotes of one of my teachers: “Younger the students are, better are the chances for teachers to mold their minds. A direct co-relation is that in the earlier grades/classes students listen more to their teachers, and hence score more marks. But as they go into higher grades/classes, they don’t want to listen to the teachers anymore; they start having their own minds – they want to experiment, try out on their own and learn their own lessons. Respect for the teachers diminishes with time.”
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