5. On Punishments

Which of the following punishments I received while I was at school do you think served a purpose?

In Kindergarten : * For being talkative… I was made to sit between girls.
In Lower Primary : * For making mistakes…. I was made to write impositions.
In Upper Primary : * For not doing homework … I was sent out of the class.
In Middle School : * For my inability to memorize Malayalam poems…my earlobes
were screwed with a key.
In High School : * For indiscipline , a Jesuit priest orders me to come to the front of
the class , draws out a long cane and brings down the cane ten
times counting one to ten ….But the cane is brought down
as gently as a feather and at the end he would say
“Don’t repeat it again !!!”

4. Three favourite quotes on teaching

These are my three favourite quotes on teaching. Which is yours?

1.A great teacher is a great artist, but his medium is not canvas, but the human soul
-Anonymous
2.The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
3.A lamp can never light another lamp unless it burns on its own flame;
a teacher can never truly teach unless he continues to learn himself.
- Rabindranath Tagore