TEACHERS FOR LIFETIME

-Fatema Raja MBA I Year 

Few call them a teacher, some others guru, while some call them mentors and I call them my life makers. The ‘Teacher’ is not a word its an emotion. Life began with the most merciful teacher, God. God is the only teacher who teaches you without actually teaching you. People say you get a teacher at every step of your life, but I have only three categories of teachers, God the Almighty, My family and my core teachers.  Someone has rightly said “School is the temple and teacher is God”. In this blog, I would like to express about my core teachers. Let’s go back to school days and figure out how teachers, a resemblance of God has made our lives different.

With eyes full of tears and a water bottle around my neck, beautifully dressed with an identity card attached with a handkerchief on the left of the uniform, I was forced to go to school and there I came across my first God like teacher Miss Pasquina Norman. She was the one who held my hand and made me understand the importance of schooling. I still remember reciting, “All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, and things wise and wonderful, the good God made them all”. Here I understood the most basic but the most important lesson of life. From there my journey towards learning started.

A good teacher believes in you, when you lack faith in yourself. Being a student from science background, taking up commerce in graduation was a major turnaround in my career. Almost everyone discouraged me, but there was one distinguished personality amongst those people, Dr. Arzoo Rode. She was the one who believed in me. She made me believe that I can do the best and can see a topper in me. Her belief in me made me the Gold medalist of my batch. 

Roll no. 32 was call out. With the miniature of handmade fort/castle, I started walking towards Miss Nancy Thorat, my social studies teacher for evaluation of my project work. Everyone had made giant unique models, my miniature could have easily been ignored. But Miss. Thorat pointed out towards my fort and said “that’s the model I have been looking for, beautiful, Miss Raja”. The nervous low-paced walk transformed to a confident high headed walk, the nervous look on my face was now cheered up. Even now when I feel low, I just have a glance at the fort and my heart cheers up. That’s the beauty of a teacher she boosts up the confidence in you.

A teacher invents the best version of you. Do you know who made you realize that you are good at speaking or good at dancing? Yes, they were your teachers who found the best in you and brought out the best from you. I might not have been writing this blog if my teachers have not showed trust in my writing. You might give up but teacher never gives up on you.

I would like to appreciate and praise all the teachers who helped me in climbing the ladder of life. Setting high standards for me, encouraging me, motivati
ng me are the ways in which they bought a positive change in me. They are the true preachers of our lives. 

It’s sad that we remember our teachers only on the teacher’s day or day of Guru Pournima. They do not expect wishes but have a desire to hear the milestones achieved in your life. Remember the dream begins with a teacher, without teacher life would have no class. 

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Fatema Raja MBA I Year

Indira Global Business School, Pune