Building Successful Personalities

16 July 2008, 1557H, Wednesday. Learning has always been a multi-faceted process. Students learn from teachers, and so do teachers from students. In my entire teaching profession, I have marvelled at how my students' simple questions stimulate me to think of their intriguing questions. What does COMING NEXT mean? Asked a student once after she saw this phrase on television before a movie would be shown in the movies. I never thought of asking such a simple question.

Today I find myself overjoyed. It is the end of my special class preparatory to graduate studies, and my Japanese clients Kaori and Noriko (a Japanese princess's name who was born on April 18, a day after which was her birthday) ended their 8:10 to 10:10 a.m. session today. To make their day memorable, I brought my digital camera and took their photographs while they were studying silently, candidly, without their knowledge, and as a pair and with me to remember them by.

I also gifted them with four-leaf clover pen attachments, an expanding pocket each, and green Faber Castell pencils. They in turn surprised me with Japanese food. They must have observed how I would go without breakfast early in the day and proceed to teach instead of taking my morning meal.

It has always been my philosophy in life to share information of all kinds for the benefit of making individual learners become independent ones. Who wants learners to be forever dependent on teachers? Not I!!!

Passing the torch of knowledge is a huge responsibility, but if it means a solid foundation of independence, then I would route for it than against it.

So goes the proverb:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Of course, there is the slight variation to this proverb which goes:

Teach a man how to use a computer, and he will not bother anyone for a lifetime.

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