Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Too all the teachers out there, wishing you all a Happy Teachers Day! Teaching is a passion that need to continuously be recharged. Its a calling that only selected few can fulfill. Its a energy sapping endeavour of which pre-requisites are lots of patience and willingness to listen.
Its a thankless vocation at times, getting brickbrats from parents and the public. But its the one title that elicits respect and admiration from many.
May you continue to teach well !
Spotlight: He may be blind but he can see a smile and hear many whispers
THE prank may have been mean but M. Thavasothy Pillai, who is blind, took his Teachers Day joke in good faith. On that day some years back, the SMK Taman Petaling class that Thavasothy was about to teach had switched with a class next door to fool the 56-year-old.
But the wise man could sense something fishy when he did not hear the familiar sounds of his students when they replied to his greeting. Far from being angry, he laughed with them and told them their game was up. » Read more: Happy Teachers Day
