The Essential 55 is a New York Times bestselling book by award-winning educator Ron Clark that outlines 55 fundamental rules for manners, respect, and academic success!
Of course the 55 are only Ron’s rules! Every teacher may have his or her own rules!
The novel starts with this disclaimer and the open acceptance of the fact that Ron did not want to be a teacher in the first place!
In fact he was mischievous enough to have trapped himself on an oven and even been a lonely backpack traveller who ended up eating a rat and getting food poisoning! That being irresponsible to the core!
He was then forced to teach and apparently won several awards and turned out to be a great teacher and follower of rules!
His book is an essential handbook of rules and regulations including how to behave and how to eat!
All from a guy who had nothing to do with teaching when he was growing up! This is the biggest irony!
When you ask anyone what he or she wants to be; there would never be a kid who would tell that he or she would want to be a teacher when he or she grows up!
When in fact if you think about it, being a teacher is one of the most important profession along with the farmer for the future of human civilisation!
Most of the times though the ones who end up teaching are those who do not end up with anything!
But (!!) with the advent of competition and awareness; the teacher or more accurately the private TUTOR now is a very lucrative profession! Teachers in premium institutions earn much more that the biggest businessmen or doctors! They would have even taught those businessmen or doctors!
If you add the reach of social media then there are teachers who are as famous as the biggest rock stars and even earn as much!
The trends now favour such professionals who are easy to reach and whose reach is wide! And teaching or spreading knowledge and gaining information is always a great outlet!
The curiosity of the human mind would always make sure that one would do anything to know more!
Very soon you would have a child of five announcing to the world that he or she would want to TEACH when he or she grows up!
What can I teach you today! Except to say that on this day…
May the fourth (force!)be with you!
That’s from star wars in case you don’t get it! Now watch some star wars in a Hindi movie like shehnahah by Virender Raj Anand! You may know him as Tinnu Anand!
Shubh ratri…
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