Once a year, India’s blackboard brigade swaps homework for humblebrags. Teachers’ Day, a rare calendar moment when the nation’s pedagogues can bask in a golden apple’s worth of appreciation—without resorting to red ink or detention slips.
In a world obsessed with unicorn founders and influencer endorsements, spare a thought for the folks who actually taught them to spell. Schools may have moved from chalk-dusted corridors to Zoom detox, but the profession’s quotient of patience and puns remains inexhaustible. (“Are your angles right, or are you just being obtuse?” is still in regular circulation.)
Classrooms, those hothouses of ambition and mischief, have changed shape faster than a dodgy algebra graph. There are iPads where ink-pots used to be, and online portals, not porter’s lodges, out front. Still, amid all the digital pyrotechnics, the essential equation holds: one inspiring teacher multiplied by thirty restless minds equals a future that isn’t quite so hopeless.
Teachers at Radcliffe Education chimed in with their own blackboard wisdom, sharing heartfelt lessons and a few cheeky quips to mark this red-letter day.
Krina Shah, PRT English, Radcliffe school, Kharghar shared her thoughts with a beautiful line, “You will grow beautifully in your own way.” She said further, “A classroom nurtures students like a gardener tending to plant greenhouses. They grow the way they have molded. Teachers come across many kinds of students when at times it is challenging for their holistic development. And sometimes it’s like a blessing to have with us the most outstanding students who we believe are ‘God’s gifted child’. And I would say I have both challenged and blessed, because I believe we should have all mixed kinds of students, and we can accept the challenges and the classroom will flow accordingly.”
